Flu by Night 0
It appears that thinking the whole swine H1N1 flu thing is over may be a mistake:
While the public may be over the initial scare from Mexico last month, it is the longer-term scenario – a version of 1918 would be the most extreme – that keeps pandemic experts up at night. A seeming resurgence of swine flu in New York over the last several days and its continuing spread worldwide haven’t helped.
“This one may or may not come back in September or October. It may or may not come back in December. It may or may not come back at all,” said Howard Markel, a medical historian at the University of Michigan and author of When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed.
