The South of Vietnam, merely 8 degrees north of the Equator, is typical of humid tropical climate which is excellent for growing rice. The regionâs temperatures experience little variations in a year (around 27-32Â°C/80-90Â°F). There are two main seasons: the rainy and the dry.
6 flu deaths reported in Kentucky. FRANKFORT, KY. (WKYT) - The Kentucky Department of Public Health has reported six flu related deaths this flu season. Five adults and one child have died. Dr. Kraig Humbaugh with the department of public health says the very young and the very old are the most vulnerable to the flu. He says in a given year, 3,000 people could die from flu complications in Kentucky. Dr. Humbaugh says this year is different than most, because the flu in Kentucky is considered widespread, and it's been widespread for four weeks.
The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. This pattern of morbidity was unusual for influenza which is usually a killer of the elderly and young children. It infected 28% of all Americans (Tice). An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the world war. Of the U.S. soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy (Deseret News). An estimated 43,000 servicemen mobilized for WWI died of influenza (Crosby).