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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 5611434" data-attributes="member: 92282">Many people who have died  of swine flu infections in the United States have also had  bacterial infections, health officials reported on Wednesday. A study of 77 patients who died of the new pandemic H1N1  virus showed 29 percent of them had so-called bacterial  co-infections, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and  Prevention reported.      About half of these had Streptococcus pneumoniae, which can  be prevented with a vaccine, the CDC said.      The CDC has already reported that H1N1, declared a pandemic  in June, has become more active as weather cools and schools  return from summer breaks. Cases are reported in all 50  states.      "Our influenza season is off to a fast start and  unfortunately there will be more cases of bacterial infections  in people suffering from influenza," CDC epidemiologist Dr.  Matthew Moore said in a statement.      "It's really important for people, especially those at high  risk for the serious complications from influenza, to check  with their provider when they get their influenza vaccine about  being vaccinated against pneumococcus."      Wyeth's  Prevnar is part of the routine series of  immunizations that children should get, and another vaccine  against so-called pneumococcal bacteria is available for  elderly adults.      The CDC team noted that at first it did not appear that  people who were seriously ill with swine flu or who died of it  had secondary infections. But doctors may have missed them, the  CDC said.      "Routine clinical tests used to identify bacterial  infections among patients with pneumonia do not detect many of  these infections," the CDC team reported.Reuters</blockquote>

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