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...study, published in the CDC journal “Emerging Infectious Diseases,” estimated that the total number of swine flu cases in the United States between April and July 2009 ran up to 140 times higher than the number of cases confirmed by laboratory tests...
Though it is difficult to find accurate epidemiological numbers, more exact estimation will help to inform vaccine and treatment recommendation to improve predictions of future spread, Lipsitch wrote. The CDC reported on October 23 that the fast-moving “swine flu” pandemic had spread to 177 countries worldwide and that flu activity remains widespread in 46 U.S. states. The latest weekly report from the World Health Organization only accounts for 440,000 laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic H1N1 influenza through the end of October throughout the globe, admitting that the case count is likely...
Explaining possible reasons why swine flu cases could go unnoticed, Rosenthal said that many people are asymptomatic or may suffer less severe symptoms after gaining a level of passive immunity from being exposed to the disease in roommates or colleagues...
...good news is that so far, [swine flu] is no worse than the seasonal flu... the population of undergraduates, students seem to be managing well.” Robert J. Blendon, professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health defended the importance of studying unreported flu cases in an interview this week, saying that they could be important in raising public awareness...
HilaryFail: Jenny has swine...