The majority of young, healthy people will not develop flu complications.

However, well-recognised complications can affect the following high-risk people:

• the very young, particularly toddlers younger than a year
• the very old (more than 90 percent of deaths related to influenza occur in the elderly, 65 years or older)
• pregnant women (mid to late pregnancy)
• those with heart disease
• those with respiratory (chest) disease
• those with HIV, or others who are immune compromised (eg people with tuberculosis.)

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Reviewed (2006) by Dr Jane Yeats MBChB, BSc(Med)(Hons)Biochem, FCPathSA(Virology).
 

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