Originally posted by A Fortiori
reply to post by burntheships
Don't know if this is good news or not...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The death rate from the pandemic H1N1 swine flu is likely lower than earlier estimates, an expert in infectious diseases said on Wednesday.
New estimates suggest that the death rate compares to a moderate year of seasonal influenza, said Dr Marc Lipsitch of Harvard University.
"It's mildest in kids. That's one of the really good pieces of news in this pandemic," Lipsitch told a meeting of flu experts being held by the U.S. Institute of Medicine.
"Barring any changes in the virus, I think we can say we are in a category 1 pandemic. This has not become clear until fairly recently."
The Pandemic Severity Index set by the U.S. government has five categories of pandemic, with a category 1 being comparable to a seasonal flu epidemic.
www.reuters.com...
Dont really know what's going on out East but this is what is being spread in the media and on the streets here in Colorado.. they are saying officially that its not as bad as experts had earlier believed and to treat it like any other seasonal flu. This was on the news just last week and on the radio.
BTW I am just getting over the virus(h1n1) and 4 days into it Im about 85% back to normal.
[edit on 21-9-2009 by kronos11]

