H1N1 news hopeful in US
China Daily | Updated: 2009-12-09 08:00
WASHINGTON: One of the most systematic looks yet at the H1N1 flu pandemic confirms that it is at worst only a little more serious than an average flu season and could well be a good deal milder, researchers said on Monday.
They analyzed data from Milwaukee and New York, two US cities that have kept detailed tabs on outbreaks of H1N1, to calculate a likely mortality rate of 0.048 percent.
"That is, about 1 in 2,000 people who had symptoms of pandemic H1N1 infection died," Dr Marc Lipsitch of Harvard University and colleagues wrote.
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