Immune response may explain worse flu symptoms among pregnant women

Women who get the flu while pregnant have a much higher risk of hospitalization and death and are four times more likely to deliver a premature baby. During the 1918 epidemic, in fact, the death rate among pregnant women was at least 28 times that of the general population.



via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/pKP3VDvtZj8/la-sci-sn-flu-pregnancy-immune-20140922-story.html