[decimon]

If I have it right then the virus 'opens the door' that the bacteria comes in through. Don't know if it's ever the other way around.

[decimon]

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[SatinDoll]

“...the 2009 pandemic influenza virus.”

What pandemic? I don’t remember any pandemic in 2009; does anyone else?

[Billthedrill]

The clinical disease and tissue damage seen in the pre-pandemic cases were indistinguishable from those evident in cases that occurred during the height of the pandemic. This suggests, says Dr. Taubenberger, that over the course of the pandemic, the virus did not undergo a dramatic change that could explain the unusually high mortality it ultimately caused.

Or that it already had. In any case, there are two hypotheses of which I'm aware at the moment: first, that the influenza virus compromised the immune system sufficiently to allow for widespread death by secondary (bacterial) infection, and second, that the virus caused a catastrophic immune cascade that ended up killing the patient by itself. I think we'd need more tissue samples than we have to demonstrate which it was, and it could have been both.

[Free Vulcan]

Great-grandma’s brother was a soldier who survived WWI only to be cut down by the Spanish flu on the way home.

[SunkenCiv]

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Thanks decimon. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.