This change means that the swine flu -- or H1N1, as agribusiness lobbied successfully for it to be called -- "has largely run its course."
However, the swine flu vaccine will be part of the 2010-2011 seasonal flu vaccine.
As we enter the post-pandemic period, this does not mean that the H1N1 virus has gone away. Based on experience with past pandemics, we expect the H1N1 virus to take on the behaviour of a seasonal influenza virus and continue to circulate for some years to come.In WHO Director-General Margaret Chan's virtual press conference she "also raised the specter of deadlier flu pandemics in future."
"Lurking in the background we still have H5N1," she said, a reference to the bird flu strain.(Image courtesy of TopNew.in.)
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Swine flu or swine influenza is a respiratory disease in pigs caused by the type A H1N1 swine influenza virus (SIV). Swine flu symptoms are similar to regular flu symptoms.
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