To most victims, the flu is just a little bit worse than a normal flu. But now and then we hear about people who actually die, or are very very ill. Young, strong people with good health before they fell ill. Those few stories are what makes me a bit worried when I hear them.
On the news last night, we heard about a guy in Sweden who became life-threathening ill.
He was laid in a respirator, but even that could not help him. The machine would breathe for him, but the lungs were unable to make the blood pick up oxygen.
It was when I heard this that I for the first time got worried about this.
So the respirator makes the lungs "breathe", still you can suffocate because the blood aren't taking up the oxygen. That's scary to think about.
They had to rush him to another hospital, where they have got some very advanced equipment, that basically works as a mechanical lung outside the body. They don't know if he'll survive.
I think they said that the total number of such machines are 13 in the whole country. I live in Norway but it's not very far away.
He's lucky it's 2009 and not 1990.
I hope ChrisRedfield1994 is doing okay.