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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 44-48Publisher
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION
DOI: 10.3201/eid1501.080618
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- NIAID NIH HHS [U01 AI074419, U54 AI065357, U-01 AI74419-01] Funding Source: Medline
- NICHD NIH HHS [K24- HD047249, K24 HD047249] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [U-01A1061611-01] Funding Source: Medline
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Bacterial pneumonia with empyema is a serious complication of influenza and commonly resulted in death during the 1918 influenza pandemic. We hypothesize that deaths caused by parapneumonic empyema are increasing in Utah once again despite advances in critical care and the availability of antimicrobial drugs and new vaccines. In this study, we analyzed the historical relationship between deaths caused by empyema and influenza pandemics by using 100 years of data from Utah. Deaths caused by empyema have indeed increased from 2000-2004 when compared with the historic low death rates of 1950-1975. Vaccine strategies and antimicrobial drug stockpiling to control empyema will be important as we prepare for the next influenza pandemic.
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