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Revised Estimate Increases Global H1N1 Mortality Figures by Factor of 15

July 5, 2012 | Syndicated Author
(Center for Biosecurity of UPMC) The previously reported number of deaths due to laboratory-confirmed H1N1 (18,500) during the 16 months of the 2009-2010 pandemic (April 2009-August 2010)1 is widely acknowledged to be a gross underestimate because most flu patients were not tested. Evidence of this lack of data is that less than 12% of laboratory-confirmed deaths were reported from Southeast Asia and Africa, where 38% of the global population resides.1 http://www.upmc-cbn.org/report_archive/2012/cbnreport_06292012.html