AFP | June 26, 2009
At least one million people in the United States have had H1N1 flu, or around 50 times more than the number of cases reported to health authorities, US health authorities said Friday.
"We're saying that there have been at least a million cases of the new H1N1 virus so far this year in the United States," said Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
"Reported cases are really just the tip of the iceberg," said Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, of the roughly 28,000 confirmed cases of A(H1N1) flu in the United States.
Around 3,000 people infected with H1N1 flu in the United States have had to be hospitalized and 127 people are reported to have died.
The CDC arrived at its figure of one million cases based on computer models and surveys of communities known to have been hard hit by the new flu strain.
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