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Nashville, Tennessee

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20...75/2066/NEWS03

Originally Posted by www.tennessean.com

Jamie Loveless, 27, was admitted to St. Petersburg General Hospital with pneumonia that doctors said probably developed from the H1N1 virus. The illness attacked her lungs and escalated rapidly.

At 2:30 p.m. Thursday, the mother from Middle Tennessee died, leaving behind her husband, Chris, her 9-month-old son, Gavin, and a lot of disbelief.

"This is the most serious thing I have ever seen," said Mary Loveless, Jamie's mother-in-law. "It's unbelievable to me how quickly it went from a minor cough and fever to completely overwhelming her body.

"It affected her liver, it affected her kidneys, it affected her lungs, and in the end it destroyed her heart."

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Littlestown, Pennsylvania

http://www.publicopiniononline.com/c...ce=most_viewed

Originally Posted by www.publicopiniononline.com

Kyree, a student in Mrs. Erin Hahn's kindergarten class, died at Penn State Hershey Medical Center after a three-week
battle with swine flu, Shreve said. Kyree was taken to Gettysburg Hospital on Oct. 11 with a fever, was moved to Hershey
on the same day and tested for swine flu soon after, she said.

The boy went into respiratory arrest during his first night in the hospital and while he seemed to improve after several weeks of being connected to a heart-lung machine, he died on Saturday from pneumonia and hemorrhaging in his lungs, Shreve said. Kyree had no pre-existing health conditions, she said.

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Originally Posted by oramar

Chances are that several other people in this family had it also. The question is WHY in a group of people with the same genetic makeup does one die when the others get better. I hope there will be a lot of study and someone can come up with an answer or answers to that question.

well said...if only. CIFDS specialists have been pondering this for decades, except that, instead of dying, some NEVER get better...

Re: No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

Originally Posted by dscrn

well said...if only. CIFDS specialists have been pondering this for decades, except that, instead of dying, some NEVER get better...

There are many reasons that some member of a family will become ill/more ill than others exposed in like circumstances. There are some known factors that increase immunity, such as getting sufficient sleep with longer REM cycles, eating foods rich in antioxidants, drinking plenty of water, etc. However with other illnesses, such as breast cancer, it's the "luck of the draw". BRCA may affect one sister (me), and not the other (my sister).... from their mother who also had it. The tip of the iceberg regarding genetic predisposition to illness, has hardly appeared yet.

Not too many long years ago, people believed that those stricken with chronic/acute severe illness had it as retribution for some bad deed, and that belief lingers with some today, to the point that it could become a "self fulfilling prophesy". The attachment of head to body and ramifications of mental expectation of illness can be a large factor for those who often "catch" bugs. I'm certainly not saying that those who die of H1N1 flu have done it to themselves, especially very young children without those aberrations of thought.

I'll always remember the wonderful musical "Guys and Dolls" which came out in the '50s, in which a lament of a song called "A person can develop a cold" first revealed to the general public, that there was truth in the concept that stress brings URIs to people. The lyrics of part of it, etched indelibly on my mind, go, "You can feed her all day with the Vitamin A (Linus Pauling's work with Vit C hadn't been written then) and the bromo fizz, but the medicine never gets anywhere near where the trouble is. When she's getting a kind of a name for herself, and the name ain't his, a person can develop a cold." That was attributed to a boyfriend who wouldn't commit to a showgirl..... In those days, it was thought that marriage solved everything.

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Springfield, Ohio

http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/ne...ay-385466.html

Originally Posted by www.springfieldnewssun.com

Clark County reported its first flu-related death this week when 26-year-old Tasha Robinson, of Springfield, who had no underlying medical conditions, died from complications on Oct. 27.

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Kershaw County, South Carolina

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11448517

Originally Posted by www.wistv.com

A 7th grade math teacher at Camden Middle School, Leon Kats, has died after his wife said tests came back positive for swine flu.
Jennifer Kats, the wife of 54-year-old Leon Kats, says Leon went to Moncrief Army Hospital at Fort Jackson last Wednesday, Oct. 28, because he wasn't feeling well. He was coughing and had a fever. She says doctors there diagnosed him with pneumonia, and he got rapidly worse.

On Friday, he went to Palmetto Health Richland. By Saturday morning, he was in intensive care and on a respirator.
Jennifer says her husband Leon passed away Wednesday night at 11pm at Palmetto Health Richland.

Jennifer Kats said as far as she knew, Leon had no underlying medical conditions that could have contributed to his death.

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Topeka, Kansas

http://www.kwch.com/Global/story.asp?S=11453543

Originally Posted by www.kwch.com

A 34-year-old man from the Topeka metropolitan area was confirmed to have pandemic H1N1 on November 4. His death was reported to KDHE on November 2. The man had no underlying health conditions that placed him at greater risk for severe complications of influenza

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Re: No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

I sure wish the vaccine was more readily avaiable.

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Virginia Beach, Virginia

http://hamptonroads.com/2009/11/man-...-flu-wife-says

Originally Posted by hamptonroads.com

Tamara Johnson said that her husband, who went by “Clint,” came down with a fever on Oct. 27. He went home from his job as an auto technician at Bert’s Alignment that day. Tamara said that he didn’t improve and also started vomiting. She took him to the emergency room at Sentara Bayside Hospital on the evening of Oct. 29, when he was diagnosed with the flu.

By that time, she also was starting to show symptoms. Clint was dehydrated and received some intravenous medications. Neither of them had any underlying health conditions, she said.

By Sunday, Clint still had not improved, so Tamara took him back to the emergency room and he was admitted to the hospital. Last Monday he was put on a respirator, Tamara said, and by midweek doctors said tests indicated he had H1N1, which led to double pneumonia.

He died on Friday around noon.

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Boone County, Kentucky

http://www.kypost.com/news/local/sto...9HJqkjqmQ.cspx

Originally Posted by www.kypost.com

The Northern Kentucky Health Department has confirmed another death associated with the swine flu H1N1 in a Boone County male in his 20s.

The individual did not have any underlying conditions prior to his death, according to the information provided to the Health Department.

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