📖 When COVID-19 or flu viruses kill, they often have an accomplice – bacterial infections
❦ The 1918 influenza pandemic resulted in the loss of over 3% of the world’s population – at least 50 million people.
But it wasn’t the flu virus that caused the majority of these deaths.
An analysis of lung samples collected during that flu pandemic indicated that most of the deaths were likely due to bacterial pneumonia, which ran rampant in the absence of antibiotics.
Even in more recent history, like the
1957 H2N2 and
2009 H1N1 flu pandemics, nearly
18% of patients with
viral pneumonia had additional bacterial infections that increased their risk of death.
And the COVID-19 pandemic is no different.
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📖 (17 Aug 2022 ~ The Conversation) When COVID-19 or flu viruses kill, they often have an accomplice – bacterial infections ➤
© 2022 Hayley Muendlein / The Conversation.
