Missouriwatcher
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CANADA: "Despite the recent surge in H1N1 deaths, the nation's chief public health officer says the pandemic virus appears no deadlier than regular seasonal influenza and that there could actually be substantially fewer flu deaths than normal this season.
...based on the information available up until now, H1N1 is not on track to causing disease and death on the scope or scale of the flu pandemics of the 20th century.
Reporting in this month's Harvard Health Letter, Harvard University researchers said data from the U.S. shows the death rate for H1N1 is one death for every 2,000 people who develop symptoms. The death rate for seasonal flu is about one death for every 1,000 to 2,000 infections."
Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/most-popular/story.html?id=2227669&p=2#ixzz0X79ng3Af
...based on the information available up until now, H1N1 is not on track to causing disease and death on the scope or scale of the flu pandemics of the 20th century.
Reporting in this month's Harvard Health Letter, Harvard University researchers said data from the U.S. shows the death rate for H1N1 is one death for every 2,000 people who develop symptoms. The death rate for seasonal flu is about one death for every 1,000 to 2,000 infections."
Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/most-popular/story.html?id=2227669&p=2#ixzz0X79ng3Af