Could older population have enough exposure to past H1N1 flu strains to avoid infection?
Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 19:42
in Health & Medicine
PROVIDENCE, RI -- A letter to the editor by Rhode Island Hospital infectious diseases specialist Leonard Mermel, DO, identifies characteristics of the outbreak of H1N1 in 1977 and speculates its impact on this pandemic. His letter is published in the June 20 edition of the journal the Lancet 2009 (vol 373 p2108-09).