In these early reports are based, clinical studies in children from 6 months to 17 years has started, "Fauci said.
Results from clinical trials are still several weeks away, and more studies will start in September, the vaccine in pregnant women at high risk for complications of swine influenza test.
In the press conference today, the CDC officials also reported that about 8,000 hospitalizations and 522 deaths in the United States has confirmed that the cause of swine H1N1 influenza.
Influenza activity at a low level in the United States, but the influence is in two states: Alaska and Maine widespread. Most of influence in the United States, that the swine flu at this time, as flu season is generally not started yet.
The swine flu "still disproportionately affects the young," said Jay Butler, MD, director of the CDC Working Group H1N1. Butler said that the United States, 75% of hospitalizations due to swine influenza and 60% of deaths between pigs were influenza in people aged under 49
In the new swine flu to other reports, the press, a health official in the world that could have an "explosion" of swine flu cases cited.
Mention in the press, asked today, "said Butler, an" explosion "of cases would have been one worst scenario, the health authorities are preparing, but it is harmless product.
"Whether it's an" explosion ", we cannot really say, Butler said that, given the unpredictability of influenza viruses.
Butler and Fauci noted that the cases are more likely to fall and winter, as children return to school and the weather gets colder. "I hope that is not bad, but we are the ready," Fauci said.
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