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Swine flu is unpredictable and spreading fast
Friday, 19 June 2009Speaking to the Ipswich-based Queensland Times newspaper, Professor Whittaker warned that influenza is one of the most unpredictable viruses and the H1N1 (swine flu) strain, while causing symptoms no worse than regular flu, is spreading two to three times quicker and affecting more young people of working age.
She said because the new strain had surfaced in the Australian flu season, it was also difficult to know how the virus would develop.
“The chances of it mutating into something more serious or more transmissible are higher,” she said.
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