Experts fear public health systems could be overwhelmed if swine flu and regular flu collide in major urban populations, according to the Associated Press.
SHOOT: Once again the bottom line is that sooner or later a lot of people are going to start suffering from Pandemic Flu. I personally think it will manifest sooner than the average person thinks. I believe H1N1 is laying the groundwork now for a major resurgence. The resurgence may actually begin - in a big wave - in a vast Southern Hemisphere sweet. *This* winter.
This pattern of an initial "herald wave" followed by a second wave is common in the flu world.
"Sometimes we will see a little spike of flu towards the end of the season with that turning up next year. Maybe that's what this is. That would be very typical," said Dr. John Treanor, a professor of medicine and of microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center. "My guess would be that if this virus does not end up causing significant disease in the northern hemisphere over the summer, it will certainly do so in the fall."
"You have this risk of an additional virus that could essentially cause two outbreaks at once," Dr. Jon Andrus, of the Pan American Health Organization's headquarters in Washington, D.C., told the wire service.
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