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In response to
"What you don't know about the flu shot won't kill you. -- (link)"
by
znufrii
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this is pretty interesting...
Posted by
Andie
Oct 6 '14, 12:43
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"In the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more people than the First World War, adults in their 20s and 30s accounted for half of the total death toll. As one otherwise technical report puts it, “It was not just the weak and infirm who were taken away but the flower and strength of the land.” That flu was particularly dangerous for people with strong, mature immune systems, as it tended to set off an uncontrollable immune response. Those young, healthy adults drowned in their own lung fluid.
With the 1918 flu pandemic in mind, I remarked to my father, a physician, that it seemed fortunate that the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 had been so harmless. He described looking at the chest X-ray of one of his patients who nearly died from H1N1. The man’s lungs were impossibly full of fluid, my father said, and after seeing that image he wouldn’t ever be able to think of the virus as “harmless”."
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