Friday, 12 August 2011

A bit of good news at long last!

From the BBC:

The swine flu pandemic has been declared officially over by the World Health Organization.

The body said it was moving to the "post-pandemic phase" after many countries, including the UK, had scaled down their emergency measures. WHO director general Dr Margaret Chan said the virus had "largely run its course".

Millions of people were affected across the world by the infection after it emerged in April last year. But the pandemic - the first for 40 years - proved much less deadly than many had feared. In the UK, more than 450 people died, but that was well short of the 65,000 predicted as the worst-case scenario.


Jolly good. I can cross that off my "Things to worry about" list. Ah... I did that over a year ago. Oh well.

1 comments:

knirirr said...

It wasn't fun at all if one actually caught it - I did.