CDC leery of estimates about swine flu's toll (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Wed, 08/26/2009 - 7:10pm

A patient (R) with symptoms of infection by Influenza A (H1N1) virus, receives from a doctor medication to relieve fever and pain at a first-aid post in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on August 7, 2009.<br /><br />Brazil now has 557 swine flu deaths, making it the country with the highest number of fatalities in the world from the disease, according to figures announced by the health ministry Wednesday.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)AP - Government health officials are urging people not to panic over estimates of 90,000 people dying from swine flu this fall.

"Everything we've seen in the U.S. and everything we've seen around the world suggests we won't see that kind of number if the virus doesn't change," said Dr.

Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.



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