A story first reported by the New York Times has the U.S. death count from H1N1 infections higher than the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had reported. Now federal health officials say that 4,000 plus U.S. citizens have died from complications that are related to the H1N1 influenza virus. These complications can be bacterial infections like sepsis (infection in the blood) to pneumonia.CDC officials are working on making their calculations more accurate.
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