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CDC: H1N1 pneumococcal infection worrisome
ATLANTA, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Federal health officials said they are seeing an increase in serious pneumococcal infections
around the United States, a finding described as "worrisome." "Flu infections can increase the risk of pneumococcal disease -- pneumococcus is a bacteria that commonly affects the lung or sometimes the bloodstream -- in a typical non-pandemic year, most serious pneumococcal infections occur in people age 65 and older. "It turns out that in this pandemic, we are seeing an increase in pneumococcal infections in younger persons. We're looking in our active bacterial core surveillance, what we call our ABCs site, and it's in those sites that we have seen this increase in what's called invasive pneumococcal disease." http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/...9951259212647/
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