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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

New Zealand : Swine flu risk for half of NZ population

Via Stuff :

" Half the population is still at risk of another outbreak of swine flu (H1N1) and 2010 could be nearly as deadly as last year.

Southland was one of the regions worst affected by the H1N1 virus last year and steps are being taken to ensure public safety as the annual flu season gets under way.

Canterbury Health associate professor of virology Dr Lance Jennings said the general public needed to adopt good hygiene habits permanently, not only to avoid the seasonal flu but to avoid any deadly pandemic in the future.

Avian influenza (bird flu) was still capable of causing a major worldwide pandemic, even though it still did not transfer easily between animals and humans, Dr Jennings said.

That virus has killed 60 per cent of the people who have so far contracted it."

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