Thursday, June 25, 2009

H1N1 Update

http://health.utah.gov/epi/h1n1flu/sitrep062409.pdf

Some Ugly stats coming out of the CDC. Lets hope it gets no worse.

A category 2 pandemic has the following characteristics: • Case fatality ratio
of 0.1 percent to less than 0.5 percent.
• Between 90,000 and 450,000 deaths
in the U.S. (compared with estimated 36,000 deaths during a typical influenza
season).
• Excess death rate of between 30 to less than 150 per 100,000
people.
• Illness rate of between 20 and 40 percent


 


 

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