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Monday, February 8, 2010

As Swine Flu Fades, Experts Ponder Next Season

Via Healthday a long but very interesting article about H1N1 and it's future. As all the experts predict, flu is very "unpredictable":

"After nearly a year of headlines, worry and confusion, the H1N1 swine flu virus is now out of the news. Is it out of circulation as well?

The latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds no states reporting widespread influenza activity and only five reporting regional activity.

H1N1 flu activity seems to have leveled off, but the virus does continue to circulate causing illness, hospitalizations and deaths," Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said during a noon teleconference Friday."

The whole article:
http://health.yahoo.com/news/healthday/asswineflufadesexpertspondernextseason.html;_ylt=AiCnlKSmSC3UenCoNLHKyymmxbAB

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