WHO: Swine Flu Could Infect 2 Billion People If Becomes Pandemic
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WHO: Swine Flu Could Infect 2 Billion People If Becomes Pandemic
The media’s coverage of the H1N1 swine flu epidemic has been criticized by many for being overblown, fire-fanning, scare-mongering, overly hyped, and apocalyptic. However, statements Thursday from a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official seem to do the panic-prone and hypochondriacs out there no favors, predicting that if the virus becomes a pandemic, it could infect a third of the world’s population — around 2 billion people. According to Earth Times, WHO’s health security chief Keiji Fukuda predicts that, “looking at past pandemics, a third of the world’s population could be infected.”
However, Fukuda, speaking to reporters in Geneva, later made note of the crucial distinction between those who will be infected and those who will actually become seriously ill, and he says he is unaware of any inclination by WHO to raise the epidemic alert level from phase 5 to phase 6, Earth Times reports.
via WHO: Swine Flu Could Infect 2 Billion People If Becomes Pandemic.
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