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Do you think swine flu will be a pandemic?

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badaspie

June 08, 2009 03:31 AM

By current definition in terms of worldwide distribution, swine flu is already a pandemic. (That definition means sustained spread in at least two separate parts of the world -- currently North America, South America, Europe, and Australia.) However, because swine flu has turned out to be no deadlier than regular flu, the World Health Organization has not declared a pandemic and is considering changing the definition of a pandemic to indicate the severity of a disease as well as its spread.

Right now, swine flu is not a serious threat, and a formal pandemic declaration is unlikely. However, there is a chance that it could follow the pattern of the 1918 flu pandemic (a relatively mild off-season wave, followed by a flu season that killed as many as 40 million people worldwide), so swine flu will continue to be closely monitored.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31127494/
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/3rd_meeting_ihr/en/index.html
http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/

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