Flu deaths among young: Still a mystery for Doctors
Influenza is a highly contagious viral disease that affects the respiratory tract. It is famously known as flu, or grippe. It is a winter havoc that presents the following 
signs and symptoms: chills, fever, muscle pains, pharyngitis, sever headache, body malaise or weakness, coughing and general discomfort. In more serious cases, these signs and symptoms can all lead to pneumonia, which result to critical situations.
Medical doctors are now anticipating the peak of the flu season on this month or on April. As a measure to decrease the incidence of the morbidity and mortality rate with flu, they are now giving booster shots who were vaccinated earlier. Although medical practitioners are giving shots of Tamiflu, an antiviral medicine against flu, there are skepticisms about the effectiveness of the shot. There are reports that claim that there are flu viruses that are resistant to the drug.
Basically, 50 percent of flu mortality rate occurred in children who have an existing heart or lung disease, or those who are immunocompromised. The other half of the population is composed of healthy people who acquired the viral disease.
Dr. John Treanor of the University Of Rochester School Of Medicine said that there are speculations that the children may have an unusual immune reaction to the flu virus that lead to their death. But the exact cause of the death is still unknown. It could be, according to other medical specialists that the death was not just brought by the flu alone, but with the complications, such as bacterial pneumonia.
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