What is causes you to die from swine flu

How does the Swine flu cause death?

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Like any other type of flu, people can die from swine flu if they develop complications, like pneumonia. That, i think is how it causes most deaths, and by bad personal hygene.

How is it that the swine flu causes death?

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any flu can cause death. not just the swine flu. The swine flu is more scary simply because it’s new and we don’t have a natural immunity to it, and we don’t understand it yet. the flu is rarely what kills you, it’s secondary infections cau…

Why does swine flu cause death?

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In the Novel H1N1 pandemic, underlying disease is one of the most prominent factors in causes of death. Usually it is pneumonia that proves fatal to the high risk patients with pregnancy, or chronic diseases like asthma, diabetes, HIV/AIDS …

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What actually causes one to die from swine flu, anyway?

Q: The media tosses out all this blabber about “how the disease works,” but how do people actually DIE from it? Do they go delirious and burn up from fever and their organs stop functioning? I’m not getting it. Given the poor quality of health care and the poverty in Mexico, I imagine these people probably would not have died had they gotten better care in the U.S. or a developed country. So many details the media unsurprisingly ignores, instead just giving a vague list of extremely general “symptoms” a person would experience from pretty much any illness in existence.So how does it actually kill? And why won’t anyone even spectulate on the reason there have been so many more deaths in Mexico than elsewhere?

A: The respiratory infection will develop into pneumonia in some patients. Pneumonia can become so severe that it threatens the patient’s life. Many pneumonia patients require a ventilator (artificial breathing machine). Being on a “vent” predisposes the patient to further infection. It is likely that a flu patient with pneumonia that actually dies or comes near death is in a state of septic shock (low blood pressure, very high or low body temp.). Septic shock or “sepsis” causes all kinds of internal problems….at the cellular level which can result in multiple organ failure and death.

How does someone die from the flu, specifically swine flu?

Q: What actually causes death from H1N1 or the swine flu. How does someone die? What exactly happens?So how does someone die from the common cold or common flu?

A: It breaks down your immune system and leads to other diseases.Swine Flu can kill all ages though.

What exactly does the swine flu do that causes people to die?

Q: I mean how is it more dangerous than the regular flu? what does it do to the human body?

A: well, after 48 hrs the virus mutates and weakens your immune system, causing pneumonia, and then you die.