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If you were to ask anyone a year ago about H1N1 or the “swine flu,” they may have been able to tell you a little bit about the pandemic or at least where to get a vaccination. The sickness that killed an estimated 19,000 people all over the globe, has now been downgraded from pandemic status on its six-stage alert system.

The World Health Organization’s director general, Margaret Chan, said in a statement, “The new H1N1 virus has largely run its course.” “We expect the H1N1 virus to take on the behavior of a seasonal influenza virus and continue to circulate for some years to come, ” she added.

In the U.S., the government spent $1.6 billion on a swine flu vaccine program. But while the vaccines, combined with millions of Americans becoming infected, led to massive swaths of immunity, the alternative would have been much worse, qualified Dr. Albert Wu, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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