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What Are Common Flu Complications?

The most common flu complications include viral or bacterial pneumonia, muscle inflammation (myositis), central nervous system disease, and heart problems including heart attacks, inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis), and inflammation of the sac around the heart (pericarditis).

Other flu complications may include ear infections and sinus infections, especially in children, dehydration, and worsening of chronic medical conditions, such as congestive heart failure, asthma, or diabetes.

Those at highest risk for flu complications include adults over 50, children ages 6 months to 4 years, nursing home residents, adults and children with heart or lung disease, people with compromised immune systems (including people with HIV/AIDS), and pregnant women.
(For in-depth information, see WebMD's Flu and Chronic Medical Conditions.)

source: http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/flu-guide/flu-complications

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NanoViricides Reports Its Oral FluCide® Anti-Influenza Drug Candidates Are Superior to Oral Oseltamivir (TamiFlu®) in H1N1 Influenza Lethal Infection Model

The potential of an oral anti-influenza nanoviricide® drug has important implications for disease treatment. According to the CDC, influenza is a highly communicable acute respiratory disease that is considered to be one of the major infectious disease threats to the human population. During seasonal epidemics, 5-15% of the world population is typically infected (or about 300 million to 1 billion people infected), resulting in 3-5 million cases of severe illness affecting all age groups. Historically, in the USA alone, 5% to 20% of the population (approximately 40M people) come down with the flu annually, of which more than 200,000 persons are hospitalized from influenza-related complications, and approximately 36,000 people die from influenza-related causes even in a non-pandemic year. During the 1918 pandemic year, 675,000 Americans died from the flu. Most victims were healthy young adults and it was thought that majority of the deaths were from a phenomenon called “cytokine storm”, essentially an over-reaction of the immune system to the novel viral infection.

Read more: NanoViricides Reports Its Oral FluCide® Anti-Influenza Drug Candidates Are Superior to Oral Oseltamivir (TamiFlu®) in H1N1 Influenza Lethal Infection Model - FierceBiotech http://www.fiercebiotech.com/press-releases/nanoviricides-reports-its-oral-flucide-anti-influenza-drug-candidates-are-s#ixzz2cmh718QP

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