Number Of Fatalities From 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic Might Have Been 15 ...: In a study published on Monday in the ... http://t.co/IMbf5A1M
In a study published on Monday in the Lancet Infectious Diseases, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic likely killed about 284,500 people worldwide between August 2009 and August 2010, a number 15 times higher than the 18,500 deaths reported to the WHO, Bloomberg News reports. "More than half the deaths may have been in southeast Asia and Africa, compared with 12 percent of officially reported fatalities, the authors wrote," the news agency states (Bennett, 6/25). The reported cases "were only the deaths confirmed by lab testing, which the WHO itself warned was a gross underestimate because the deaths of people without access to the health system go uncounted, and because the virus is not always detectable after a victim dies," Reuters writes (Begley, 6/25).
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