Swine flu:Disposal Mask
"Starting with Mexico last spring, the swine flu has spread across 168 countries, with at least 162,000 confirmed cases and playing a role in 1,154 deaths including 436 in the United States. Six deaths have been reported in India.
As the virus is new and most people are not immune to it, experts suspect the second wave could be more severe than an average flu season, which hospitalises an estimated 200,000 Americans and contributes to 36,000 deaths.
"This epidemic will transmit faster than usual, because the population is more susceptible," Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health who has been helping the CDC project the severity of the upcoming wave, told The Washington Post.
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