The findings suggest that in the future, pig populations will need to be monitored more closely for emerging influenza viruses, reported a team led by Rebecca Garten of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a report released by the journal Science.

Additionally, a simple action like brushing teeth following each and every meal could make a big difference in our immune system,I believe.

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This may not be unmitigated bad news. If this pandemic flu strain “crowds out” seasonal H3N2, which is responsible for most of the flu deaths in elderly people (95% of those who die, on average, from “seasonal flu”), the pandemic may end up saving many lives over the next few years.

This is speculative, of course. It depends, among many other factors. After the pandemic ends (however bad — or not — that it gets during its course), the virus MAY become a seasonal flu virus, with a lower attack rate and less virulence, once most people have been exposed to it. So if the young and healthy develop some degree of immunity to it over the next couple years, and if the elderly continue to not be very susceptible to it, and if seasonal H3N2 disappears, the “average” number of flu deaths may have to be re-calculated downwards.

Pure speculation. Flu is famous for its surprises. But the assumption that pandemic H1N1’s “advantage” over seasonal flu strains is “bad news” is also speculation; there are grounds for speculating that it will turn out to have been good news, aftter the pandemic is over.