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Swine flu no big deal? Look at years of life lost

By Debora Mackenzie

30 March 2010

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Affecting the youth

(Image: Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty)

AS THE dust settles from the swine flu pandemic, the notion that it was no worse than seasonal flu persists. But it seems that while the number of deaths in the US was comparable to a bad seasonal flu, swine flu claimed three times as many years of life because the victims were so young.

In Paris, France, this week, the Council of Europe held further hearings on allegations that health agencies . Such accusations irk flu researcher Lone Simonsen of George Washington University in Bethesda,…

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