The UK is "not out of the woods yet" when it comes to tackling swine flu, experts said today. The H1N1 strain of swine flu seen last summer and over the winter is likely to remain the dominant strain this coming flu season, they said. The public perception is that "everyone's had it" and yet some parts of the country had been largely unaffected, with many people who should have had the swine flu vaccine remaining "vulnerable". Experts gathering for a press conference in central London also agreed that the UK's response to the pandemic had been proportionate. Professor Robert Dingwall, from the Institute for Science and Society at the University of Nottingham, said the UK had not been hit as badly as expected, partly because some people had an immune response to the virus already.
"But this does not mean that the virus is not capable of getting round these defences...leading to a second wave of infection," he said.
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