Whatever happened to H1N1 flu?
“Overall, within the schools, the community, hospitals – things have been extremely quiet for the whole month of January,” said Ashley Conley, epidemiologist for the city of Nashua.
This isn’t the case just in Nashua. The disease has faded around the state, while Air Jordan Shoes nationally, the Centers for Disease Control said doctor visits, hospitalizations and deaths related to “influenza-like illness” have tapered off to normal levels.
Even globally, the United Nations has lowered its concern about the effects of the pandemic.
It isn’t that H1N1 has disappeared, however: The CDC estimates the disease has caused the hospitalization of roughly 100,000 people in this country.
Instead, what has happened is H1N1 is this year’s variant of the flu, no more dangerous or contagious than past strains have been.
“When we got started … one of the big unknowns was, ‘Is this going to be an add-on or a replacement season?’ It seems to have been a replacement,” said Dr. Jose Montero, the state epidemiologist. “H1N1 was the seasonal flu for this year.”
Much of last year’s Michael Jordan Shoes frantic preparation was prodded by fear of a nightmare scenario of a flu double whammy.
H1N1 cropped up last March in Mexico with reports it had a high fatality rate and was unusually deadly for infants and children. As it spread into the U.S., it remained active during the summer, when flu usually subsides – leading to fears it would explode when cold weather arrived along with traditional seasonal flu, swamping the health care system.
The result, as everybody remembers, was a flood of cautionary news stories and announcements about coughing into your elbow and staying home when you’re sick to avoid spreading disease, plus a rush to develop H1N1-specific vaccines and update plans for clinics, quarantines or other measures.
As cases of H1N1 began to spread in September and October – two months before the usual start of the winter flu season – the worst seemed likely.
But a seasonal strain of flu never showed up, and H1N1 cases leveled off as winter hit. There was concern a third wave of H1N1 would arrive this month as students returned to class after Christmas break, but that hasn’t happened, either.
“Absenteeism is at normal levels in schools,” Conley said.
It’s too early to declare that the problem has passed, but we seemed to have dodged the H1N1 bullet. This good news raises an important question: Were we lucky or were we skillful?
In other words, was Wholesale Fishing tackle H1N1 less of a threat than it first appeared, or did all our preparation turn a potential disaster into a mild problem?
“We can’t know for certain, but I think we did the appropriate response for the level of threat – as things changed, we modified our response,” Montero said.
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