Expert on flu’s spread says new strain here to stay

By doris | Published: April 29, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com

And Longini says the apparent new strain of swine flu appears to be here to stay. “We are probably going to have to live with this virus for some time,” he told CNN.

Longini specializes in the mathematical and statistical theory of epidemics. He works at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute at the Hutchinson Research Center in Seattle, Washington.

The researcher studies simulations of hypothetical influenzas and how they would spread across the United States. For the moment, he said, there is not enough information about the swine flu that has sickened hundreds in Mexico and about 50 people in the United States to accurately forecast how the disease will travel.

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