Youth Mortality: A Key Characteristic In Pandemics
Youth mortality is one of five “signature features” of influenza pandemics and according to the authors of a policy paper reprinted in the June 2009 issue of NEJM, it is the “most striking characteristic of the 20th century pandemics.”
The 5 signature features are:
- a shift in the virus subtype
- shifts of the highest death rates to younger populations
- successive pandemic waves, higher transmissibility than that of seasonal influenza
- differences in impact in different geographic regions
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