Via the Los Angeles Times: One in five kids had swine flu this month, CDC says. Well, most of those one in five, anyway. Excerpt:
One in five U.S. children had an influenza-like illness during the first 11 days of October, and most of those cases were probably pandemic H1N1 influenza, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 7% of adults said they had suffered the illness during the same time period, according to a telephone survey of more than 14,000 households, agency officials announced today at a medical meeting in Atlanta. There was no confirmation of the infections.
Lyn Finelli, a CDC surveillance expert, said the so-called swine flu virus is causing more illness now than at any time since the first outbreak in April. She added that the number of swine flu deaths in children since the beginning of September is equal to the number that occurred in the four months of the outbreak this spring.
