The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that they believe that if the Swine Flu (H1N1) virus continues to spread like it is right now that roughly 2 billion people (between 1/3 and 1/4 of the worlds population) could be end up becoming infected.
With this announcement the WHO set off another round of panics among individuals world wide. A WHO official was quoted as say the following "If the situation continues to evolve and the virus does become established in other countries, and we do move into a pandemic, we would expect the virus to infect many people," said WHO chief Keiji Fukuda at a press conference today. "Perhaps a third of the world's population could be infected with this virus, based on previous pandemic."
This information is not information that anybody needed or wanted to hear. Despite the swine flu's quick spreading it has continued to show mild symptoms in most infected individuals and has caused a minimal number of deaths.
It is very important that everyone stay tuned to the news about the swine flu and educate themselves but it is also important that they not panic.
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