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Unusual numbers of swine flu patients end up in ICU http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1245684743
"You don't see rows and rows of patients on ventilators because they have respiratory failure, a viral pneumonia kind of thing. It's unusual."
At last count, Manitoba hospitals had 30 respiratory distress patients in the ICU, some confirmed swine flu cases, others for whom tests are still pending.
In most people, swine flu behaves like regular flu -- it makes you feel miserable, you head to your bed and in time you recover. But in an as-yet-unknown proportion of cases, the virus seems to quickly trigger severe illness.
A report compiled by the World Health Organization said between two and five per cent of confirmed cases require hospitalization. But no one yet knows how big a portion of the iceberg is above water (the confirmed cases) and how much remains submerged (cases that never come to the attention of medical authorities).
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