--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: <snip> > The thing is that people need to build up their immune > systems. Those of us who eat healthy foods and get > exercise have strong immune systems. A strong immune > system will stomp out a virus. If you know a little > about alternate health care then you can aid in stomping > it out. And a strong immune system can't spread the flu > because it's killed the virus already.
Actually this is not the case with H1N1. What we've seen with it is what we saw in 1918: the people who are most likely to get it are young, healthy people with strong immune systems. The people who were most likely to *die* in 1918 were young, healthy people with strong immune systems. With that strain of the flu, the immune system tended to *overreact* with something called a "cytokine storm." It was actually the immune response that killed people. So far that doesn't appear to be happening with H1N1; keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't mutate into something more like the 1918 flu when it hits us this fall.
