Now recovered, I remain fascinated by the H1N1 virus. And so are doctors because this virus is exhibiting some vexing traits. Today's Washington Post has an article stocked with interesting info.

The vaccine effort is proving to be several weeks too late and millions of doses too little.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews


"...being female may itself be a risk factor, for reasons that remain unclear."

"So far, the virus does not seem to sicken or kill people more often than the typical flu. But the pattern of people getting seriously ill is far different than in typical flu seasons."

"...some young adults, possibly especially women, are falling seriously ill at an unexpectedly rapid pace and are showing up in intensive care units and dying in unusually high numbers...."

"..."It's not like seasonal influenza," Nikki Shindo of the World Health Organization said at the conclusion of a three-day meeting of more than 100 experts the WHO convened in Washington to review swine flu. "It can cause very severe disease in previously healthy young adults."