HEALTH experts are warning that Australians can expect a second wave of swine flu, possibly as early as the beginning of the school year just a fortnight away.
With a new report finding Australia’s public health response failed to prevent the H1N1 pandemic last year – and that mass casualties and a collapse of the health system would have resulted had it not been a benign strain – the Australian Medical Association has said it is likely swine flu will strike again.
AMA vice-president Steven Hambleton, a member of the national pandemic planning committee, said yesterday it would be difficult to prevent a “second wave” as the virus was again sweeping the northern hemisphere.
It has also overtaken all other strains of the virus as the dominant variety of influenza.
IMO i think it was just a scare tactic to get kids to take the shot before they go back to school.
