Swine Flu May Mean Seasonal Strain Won’t Emerge in U.S. Winter
via bloomberg.com
Read all the way to the bottom of this article from Bloomberg.com.
This is the first time I've heard about "crowding out" of one flu strain by another -- in this case, the swine flu strain seemingly suppressing the appearance of the regular seasonal flu. And epidemiologists and infectious disease experts still aren't quite sure how it happens -- or how reliably.
As one put it, "It’s probably still a very good idea to get vaccinated, because this is not over...I don’t have a crystal ball, but we had two historical pandemics where there was an early fall wave -- 1918 and 1957 -- and both of those were followed by a winter wave.”
