Protecting the Young From Pandemic Flu.

Chiehwen Ed Hsu, UT School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Abstract

whether these past findings will be borne out with this new virus have yet to be seen, warns Ed Hsu, associate professor at the University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences and School of Public Health. "We may need another week until the H1N1 outbreak runs the full course of its incubation and infectivity period," he said. "By this weekend we should have enough data to make some meaningful inferences from worldwide distribution of the disease, including susceptibility or vulnerability by age over time."