The swine flu pandemic in Australia has been equated to a bad year for seasonal flu, and about as deadly but across a broader age group. University of WA Professor in Microbiology David Smith said the influenza A(H1N1) virus had not prompted a significant increase in flu deaths in 2009 over what would have occurred in a typical flu season. He also said that while people who caught the swine flu felt sicker and were more likely to need hospital care, the virus infected about the same rate of people as were usually hit by seasonal influenza.
Swine flu ‘like bad seasonal flu year’
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