Experts say the next few days will determine whether the swine flu outbreak will keep expanding or if it will recede in the fashion of seasonal flu at this time of year. (専門家の述べるところによれば、この豚インフルエンザが拡大し続けるか、季節性のインフルエンザと同様に終息するかがここ数日で決まる。)
"What happens this coming week will be essential in determining the fate of this outbreak," says pandemic model specialist Alessandro Vespignani of Indiana University in Bloomington. (「今週に何が起こるかが感染拡大を判断する上で不可欠だ。」とその専門家は述べている。)
State officials said a Texas woman who died this week was infected with H1N1. She is the first U.S. resident whose death has been linked to the virus. The woman was in her 30s and lived near the Mexican border, although there is no indication she had traveled to Mexico recently, says Doug McBride of the Texas Department of State Health Services. She had underlying health conditions, McBride says.