Federal health officials say that 10,000 people have died due to H1N1 (or “swine flu”) since April. To put that number into context, we speak with Dr. Richard Wenzel, infectious disease specialist at Virginia Commonwealth University and immediate past President of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
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