The World Health Organization's special adviser to the WHO director general on pandemic influenza said yesterday that it is too early to determine if the H1N1 flu pandemic has passed.
"We don't know if seasonal flu will strike as it usually does this time of year or whether it will be crowded out by the ongoing, though waning, epidemic H1N1 influenza virus," says ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross. "Nor do we know if H1N1 will return in a third wave as previous H1N1 pandemics have done. The real bottom line is that everyone should get vaccinated against both H1N1 and the seasonal flu."