Certain children at high risk with H1N1 flu

In the most resent version of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), CDC researchers wrote about the first 36 children that died since last spring from the novel H1N1 virus; of those, two-thirds had underlying medical conditions like cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, asthma, diabetes or cardiovascular problems. Some of the other children who died had bacterial illnesses in addition to this novel influenza. See the whole article here.