Health News: Experts Predict Swine Flu

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“There’s no way to know for sure, but I predict that this strain will not rear its head in a much more virulent form—that it will not cause a lot of hospitalization and death—and that we will have learned something once again,” Dr. Offit says.

“It would be sort of normal circumstances, because frequently during flu season there is more than one virus circulating and causing illness,” says Dr. Imperato, who was chair of the New York City task force on swine flu during the 1976 outbreak at Fort Dix military base in New Jersey. “That’s why even a normal flu vaccine usually contains protection against three different strains. If swine flu was added to the mix, it would not be that unusual.”

“This may be the way that offers the best protection, but of course it presents its own challenges,” Dr. Imperato says. “Will people be willing to get three shots? Will they forget which ones they’ve already had? And if the swine flu virus turns out to be fairly mild in the beginning of the fall, will people be tempted not to bother getting extra vaccinations?”

“In terms of a pandemic flu vaccine—if the swine flu vaccine were given as a second [and third] shot—it wouldn’t be a question as to whether there’s enough,” he says. “It would be a question as to whether it’s still the same virus between now and then.”

“We are in a much better position to deal with those eventualities,” he says. “We can quickly and effectively produce vaccines, and we also have antiviral agents such as Tamiflu.”

Dr. Offit agrees. “Even 20 years ago, I think this outbreak in Mexico would have largely gone unnoticed,” he says. “Today, we can very quickly identify strains anywhere in the world with pandemic potential—and that means we can get to work sooner on learning how the virus behaves and working on a vaccine.”

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