Research published this week in PLoS Medicine presents the most accurate assessment to date of the severity of the swine flu (H1N1) pandemic in the US. Scientists need to measure the severity of swine flu (how often infection with the swine flu virus results in symptoms leading to illness, hospitalization or death) so that appropriate pandemic plans can be put into place…

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