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US CDC fears more new flu to come back in fall

Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:22pm EDT

WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - The new H1N1 swine flu virus is still circulating and likely will cause more disease in the autumn, especially when schoolchildren return from the summer break, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official said on Friday.

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The virus, which has been declared a pandemic, is causing severe disease and deaths in older children and younger adults in the southern hemisphere, just as it has been in the United States, the CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat said.

"We are concerned that there will be challenges in the fall," Schuchat told reporters in a telephone briefing.

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