Topic: Anand Kumar

New flu can kill fast, researchers agree

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new H1N1 flu is " strikingly different" from seasonal influenza, killing much younger people than ordinary flu and often killing them very fast, World Health Organization officials said on Friday.A review of studies done during the seven months ...

Sickest swine flu patients require heroic measures

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Once swine flu patients are sick enough to need hospital care, they decline very fast, requiring ventilators and advanced treatments that quickly strain scarce hospital resources, several teams reported on Monday.Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association ...
Canadian and Mexican intensive care units were swamped with patients who rapidly became critically ill with H1N1 flu this past spring and summer, new reports find.. They were spectacularly ill," said Dr. Anand Kumar, the Canadian lead author of one of the ...