Yes....even more so...
So far, swine flu hasn't been any more deadly than the regular flu. Any form of the flu can be deadly, but normally only for people who have other medical problems as well. Avoid all concerns by getting the vaccination to prevent it in the first place.
"The shot" is a vaccine for the swine flu. If you get the vaccine, then, in theory, you don't get the swine flu. If you didn't get it, then you didn't "survive" it, because "surviving" it means that you got the disease but didn't die from it. So, zero is the answer. On the other hand, the swine flu is no more deadly than the common flu, so the vast majority of the people who got the swine flu survived it.
Although many people have died from the pandemic swine flu, there were so many people who caught the flu in the pandemic, when you evaluate the percentages of deaths that have been related to the flu, it is significantly less deadly than feared and less deadly than even the annual seasonal flu. Most people survive easily. See the related questions for more information.
Because the flu is manifested mostly by respiratory problems and symptoms, people who already have respiratory disease or are particularly susceptible to them, as are those with asthma, can have much more serious problems than the average person when they contract any flu. In the swine flu the deaths attributed to confirmed cases of the flu have mostly occurred in people with underlying medical conditions that complicated recovery.Keeping children with asthma away from areas where the flu is spreading and using all precautions suggested by the Centers for Disease Control and Protection and World Health Organization is especially important.(See the related questions below for information on protecting yourself and others from swine flu.)
They may get it faster, be sicker with it, and it may also be harder for them to get over it. Anyone with any chronic respiratory disease like asthma, emphysema, cystic fibrosis, etc. will be more at risk. It is important that they and the people around them use all precautions carefully to avoid exposure and spread. See the related questions below for prevention information.
Some people have lung-capacity problems months or longer after fully recovering from all other symptoms. I have developed asthma-like symptoms that are still with me more than six months later.
More than 80% of people with asthma have rhinitis and recent research emphasizes that treating rhinitis helps benefit asthma
Regular asthma is because of seasonal things. It includes pollen and things like that. Runner's asthma is from exercising and it is usually found in younger people because they exercise more.
It is swine.
Asthma is not known to be communicable, so it is not "spread," per se. It is believed that some people are more susceptible to developing asthma, but this is thought to be a genetic predisposition.
Yes there is. People who live in the city or near factories are more likely to get asthma because of all the gases and fumes in the air then people living in the country.