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by: Brenda Sullivan | HTNP.com Editor October 9, 2009
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Connecticut among first states to get H1N1 vaccine

by: Brenda Sullivan | HTNP.com Editor October 9, 2009
The CDC’s Dr. Terrence Tumpey, staff microbiologists and a member of the National Center for Infectious Diseases, shows him examining reconstructed 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus inside a specimen vial. Dr. Tumpey recreated the 1918 influenza virus in order to identify the characteristics that made this organism such a deadly pathogen. Work such as this enables researchers to develop new vaccines and treatments for future pandemic influenza viruses. The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic caused by an influenza A (H1N1) virus, killed more than 500,000 people in the US, and up to 50 million worldwide. (Photo by James Gathany/CDC)

As of late August, about 100 pregnant women throughout the US infected with H1N1 had been reported admitted to intensive care, and 28 of them died.