Swine Flu Spread Was Much Wider Than First Thought, Scientists Say

Kendall Roberson

www.biologynews.net/archives/2011/06/09/swine_flu_spread_was_much_wider_than_first_thought_scientists_say.html

The swine flu outburst of 2009-2010 was much more worldwide than scientists had previously thought. Scottish adults' blood samples taken in March of 2010, exhibited that almost half of the blood samples carried the H1N1 antibodies to the virus. Forty-four percent of the the people who tested positive had the swine flu. Others had gained immunity from a previous form of the flu or had gotten the shot for the flu. Research at the University of Edinburgh showed that tons of cases of the swine flu were unreported. Only 100,000 people visited their General Practitioner about the flu, which is not a lot out of the two million people who were believed to have had the H1N1 virus.

I believe this is a discovery that is needed, but it's a little to late for it now. The scientists needed to discover this last year when the swine flu was a prime virus among a lot of people. Now, we are just hearing about the H1N1 virus and how many people actually had the virus. I think that scientists should have investigated this virus more when it was a major outbreak, and not now when it's not very prime. This is good information to have now, but it would be used much more if we would have had it last year.