Two-thirds of those already had high-risk health problems, confirming what officials have been saying about who is most vulnerable to swine flu.

• Almost two-thirds of the children who died with swine flu had epilepsy, cerebral palsy or other neurodevelopmental conditions. In a previous flu season, only a third of the children who died had those conditions.

Other germs, working with swine flu in a one-two punch, were a big danger. A bacterial infection on top of the flu virus played a role in most of the deaths of otherwise healthy children.

However, there are no signs that the virus is mutating to become more deadly, as some scientists fea...

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Two-thirds of those already had high-risk health problems, confirming what officials have been saying about who is most vulnerable to swine flu.

• Almost two-thirds of the children who died with swine flu had epilepsy, cerebral palsy or other neurodevelopmental conditions. In a previous flu season, only a third of the children who died had those conditions.

Other germs, working with swine flu in a one-two punch, were a big danger. A bacterial infection on top of the flu virus played a role in most of the deaths of otherwise healthy children.

However, there are no signs that the virus is mutating to become more deadly, as some scientists feared, CDC Director Thomas Frieden said.

these facts from the source should allay some of your fears-- hand-washing and avoiding doorknobs are my primary defense. i work with kids, and i've never had a flu shot of any kind-- even when schools in my district were closed last spring with swine flu outbreaks (no deaths in our area). unless your child has other health issues, there really is no reason to be overly anxious-- h1n1 occurs every year, and there were no more deaths from it last season than there usually are, according to the WHO and the CDC.