Study finds women hardest hit by Swine Flu

Patients who became the most critically ill with swine flu and those who died were relatively healthy young women — not the elderly and chronically ill as many still believe, according to an article released yesterday by the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The findings challenge public apathy evident in recent national and state polls over the need for healthy adults to get vaccinated against the swine flu, formally known as the H1N1 virus.

“This is not a year to be a skeptic about vaccination,” said the article’s author, Anand Kumar of the Health Sciences Centre and St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg. Kumar also is an associate professor for critical care and infectious disease at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Camden.

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