WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said yesterday that H1N1 virus , Originated in 2009, for the most part finished their walk through the world. Since the declaration of the pandemic has passed 14 months.
"Currently, the incidence of H1N1 and the number of patients is very much different from what we have seen during the pandemic - said Dr. Chan. - Off-season outbreaks are no longer locked in any countries of the northern or southern hemisphere."
Swine flu actually turned out to be much less dangerous and deadly than experts originally expected, the repetition of the infamous Spanish flu of 1918, which claimed the lives of 50 million people, fortunately did not happen. Now he does move to the "post-pandemic period," according to Dr. Chang. However, this does not mean that the virus has disappeared altogether.
"Based on our experience with past pandemics, we expect that H1N1 virus will now behave like seasonal flu, and will continue to walk in the coming years ", - stressed the head of the WHO. The duration of the post-pandemic period can not be determined.
Swine flu It has become the first pandemic declared in the last forty years. His victims were officially few hundred Russians. In the UK, the flu has killed 457 people, and the prevention and treatment of influenza have cost the country's budget to 1, 24 billion pounds. Particularly vulnerable to the flu are children and adolescents, and pregnant women.
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