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Saturday, June 5, 2010

H1N1 Swine Flu Lingers; Experts Say: "Expect regular fall/winter pattern.."

"What most people are expecting is that [the new H1N1 strain] will supplant the older H1N1 viruses that were the previous seasonal strains and become the seasonal H1N1 virus," explained Dr. John J. Treanor, professor of medicine and of microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. "The most likely scenario would be that we would continue to see the descendants of pandemic H1N1 causing seasonal outbreaks of flu, with probably normal timing," he said.

Click on the title link for the full article from Bloomberg Businessweek

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