H1N1 gone for now
Posted Dec 16, 2009 03:50:54 PM.
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A decrease in H1N1 activity may mean the virus has slowed, but is not gone for good says the province’s chief medical officer.
“It could mutate, there’s no signs of that doing that yet, but there’s still that possibility that it could change,” says Dr. Robert Strang.
“It could become more severe, the age groups that it effects could become more severe.”
Strang says the World Health Organization, Canada, and the provinces are reviewing this past wave of the pandemic and planning for future immunization campaigns
The deparment of health is reporting no new lab-confirmed cases or hospitalizations this week.
Meanwhile, Strang says the Swine flu is likely to become part of every flu season.
“We don’t know how the epidemiology of H1N1 is going to play out, so that then becomes part of the argument to have a universal program, if the epidemiology stays as it is.”
He says we were fortunate that this wave was moderate in it’s severity.
