Paradoxically, being young and healthy with a good immune system can be
deadly with a pandemic flu. The immune reaction is what actually killed
healthy people in their 20s and 30s in the 1918 pandemic...the "cytokine
storm" destroyed the lungs. (Cytokines are one of the signalling
molecules released by white blood cells in the course of fighting
invading organisms.) That's not to say you are out of the woods if you
are debilitated. The elderly and chronically ill who catch flu usually
succumb to pneumonia.
Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC NYC
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