“US Swine flu severity no worse than seasonal flu” says expert

Thursday, April 30th 2009 - 07:58 UTC

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As of April 29, 91 people in the United States had confirmed cases, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The first US death occurred on April 27, when a two-year-old child succumbed to swine flu after travelling from Mexico to Houston for treatment. Read full article

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Rkohn
You quote Ruth Karron,director of the Center for Immunization Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as saying “The virus is also easily spread and has been very lethal in Mexico, where 159 people have died so far”. Where are you getting that statistic from? WHO states as of May 1, 2009 that “...Mexico has reported 156 confirmed human cases of infection, including nine deaths”. http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_05_01/en/index.html I strongly urge the media and experts to get their facts correct!
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