Toll of Second Swine Flu Wave Could be High

Courtesy MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Tue, 08/25/2009 - 15:42

Up to half the U.S. population could be infected with the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) virus this fall, with 30,000 to 90,000 deaths, mostly among children and young adults under a scenario released by a government panel of public health experts.


 

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