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LONDON: Since the Swine flu (H1N1 virus) took its first human victim in Mexico on April 13th, health authorities around the world have been doing their best to contain its spread.
However all pandemics comes in two phases and the second phase, when the weather gets colder, is always much more serious, for which we must be prepared, the UK Health Secretary said Sunday.
Speaking on the Andrew Marr show this morning, Alan Johnson, UK Health Secretary said, "But you know our evidence from all previous pandemics is you get two phases - so you get a first wave, which is often very mild, and then you get a much more serious wave that comes along in the autumn and the winter. So we have to not just deal with this outbreak now, but prepare perhaps for a second phase further down the line."
When asked if he had any sense of how high the numbers could go up in the UK, Mr Johnson said, "No we don't because, as yet, the scientists can't make a prediction. That's why the World Health Organisation is keeping this at phase five, while an awful lot of work goes on to determine how this might spread and how many people might be involved."
He added, "..our job is always to make sure people understand the seriousness of the situation without becoming unduly alarmed. So the stage we're at at the moment is a stage of containment."
http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/16399/92/
However all pandemics comes in two phases and the second phase, when the weather gets colder, is always much more serious, for which we must be prepared, the UK Health Secretary said Sunday.
Speaking on the Andrew Marr show this morning, Alan Johnson, UK Health Secretary said, "But you know our evidence from all previous pandemics is you get two phases - so you get a first wave, which is often very mild, and then you get a much more serious wave that comes along in the autumn and the winter. So we have to not just deal with this outbreak now, but prepare perhaps for a second phase further down the line."
When asked if he had any sense of how high the numbers could go up in the UK, Mr Johnson said, "No we don't because, as yet, the scientists can't make a prediction. That's why the World Health Organisation is keeping this at phase five, while an awful lot of work goes on to determine how this might spread and how many people might be involved."
He added, "..our job is always to make sure people understand the seriousness of the situation without becoming unduly alarmed. So the stage we're at at the moment is a stage of containment."
http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/16399/92/