london:british health experts have claimed that the swine flu panemic, which killed over 3,000 people worldwide is considerably less lethal than fered . chief medical officer for england sir liam donaldson, who led the study published in the british medical journal said ," the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century is considerably less lethal than was feared in advance." About one per cent of england'population has had swine flu , of which 0.026 per cent died, the research found . -PTI
This a newspaper cutting from THE HINDU published on page 18 delhi edition date 12.12.09
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well said sir,
ReplyDeleteit's really heartening to see that there is
senstivity dawning amongst us. but the situation is still much grim. there is an urgent need to pay the well deserved attention to public hygiene for which we indians are not known for. and top it all governments apathy put itself as a sorry figure.