TY - JOUR ID - TI - Swine Flu 2009, Morbidity and Mortality in AU - *Dr Hamzah Qoneed Oleiwi MBChB CABM,*Dr Rushdi A.H. KubbaMBChB CABM, PY - 2012 VL - 8 IS - 1 SP - 126 EP - 130 JO - Al-Kindy College Medical Journal مجلة كلية الطب الكندي SN - 18109543 25214365 AB - Objective; swine flu is known to be caused by influenza A subtypes H1N1,H1N2, H2N3, H3N1, and H3N2, was first proposed to be a disease related to human flu during the 1918 flu pandemic, Iraq face the epidemic of 2009, many patients admitted to the medical word of alkindy teaching hospital, the clinical features were observed and managed according to WHO protocols.The aim of the study; is to asses some features of morbidity and mortality of swine flu epidemic admitted patients in 2009 in alkindy teaching hospital.Methods; A total 131 patients with suspected influenzaadmitted to Alkindy Teaching Hospital all complain offever more than 38c, sore throat with or without cough.The admitted patients are of two maingroups;a)seventeen secondary school pupils on theirreturn from US,b)one hundred fourteen patientsadmitted from October till end of December 2009.History ,clinical examination and routine investigationsfor all patient in addition to blood samples and swabsfrom nose and throat were taken and sent to the centrallab to test for H1N1 by PCR(real time).Results; fifty three (42%) of our patients found to have swine flu by positive test (real time PCR). It show that there is no relation of age whether young or old to being infected with swine flu or non swine flu (p>0.05). Table 2 also show that gender had no relation to possibility of infection with both non swine flu and swine flu influenza (P <0.05). We found that there was no difference of mortality between swine flu and non swine flu types (p>0.05) and pneumonia are more commonly associate influenza of negative test for swine flu virus (p<0.001). headache is more common in swine flu while chill is more common in non swine flu (p<0.05) in addition diabetes is more commonly associate swine flu than other types of influenza (p<0.05).Conclusion; This study concluded that mortality inswine flu influenza is not different from mortality innon swine flu influenza. Also age and gender had norelation to possibility of having swine flu infection .Pneumonia found to be more in non swine flu,headache associate swine flu more than non swine fluand chills associate swine flu. Diabetes associate swineflu more than non swine flu but smoking had norelation.Key words; swineflu, alkindy, mortality

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