2009 Swine Flu H1N1 Year – 2010 Good News For H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic

As we come to the end of 2009, many people will remember the health scare of H1N1 Swine Flu – however, the news is good for the future and humanity’s brush with the danger of H1N1 Swine Flu:

A new study from Harvard University has found that swine flu isn’t nearly as dangerous as we first thought it was. Here’s why:

In order to be labeled a pandemic, a disease has to have a fatality ratio of 0.1%. That means it has to result in at least one death for every 1,000 symptomatic infections.
H1N1 swine flu fatality ratio is only about 0.048%, which is LESS than one death for every 2,000 symptomatic infections.

Researcher Marc Lipsitch led the study. He says, quote, “As more detailed data have become available, we have been able to improve our estimates of how severe this disease is . . .

“The good news is that, along with previous work by the CDC and others, our work shows that the severity of the H1N1 flu may be less than initially feared.”

High risk individuals should be vaccinated as soon as possible against H1N1 Swine Flu.
Risk Groups still in danger from H1N1 Swine Flu:
Young children . . . pregnant women . . . the elderly . . . people with asthma . . . and people with compromised immune systems.