{"id":365,"date":"2009-05-20T10:15:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T14:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=365"},"modified":"2009-05-20T10:29:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T14:29:53","slug":"dont-confuse-swine-flu-spread-with-its-severity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/05\/20\/dont-confuse-swine-flu-spread-with-its-severity\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t confuse swine flu spread with its severity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each person infected with Influenza A (H1N1) will infect between 2.2 and 3.1 others\u00a0 &#8212; a &#8220;reproduction ratio&#8221;\u00a0 European researchers say is historically similar to\u00a0 other influenza pandemics.\u00a0<a title=\"Alexander Ozonoff\" href=\"http:\/\/sph.bu.edu\/index.php?option=com_sphdir&amp;id=239&amp;Itemid=340&amp;INDEX=12088\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Ozonoff<\/a>, professor of biostatistics, stresses the spread of the flu virus\u00a0is separate\u00a0 from its severity.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;On general virological principles we would expect that transmissibility correlates negatively with severity. There are selective pressures that tend to push the virus in that direction, although it is not clear how often this holds with pandemic influenza.&#8221; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Contact Alexander Ozonoff, 617-638-5866, <a href=\"mailto:aozonoff@bu.edu\">aozonoff@bu.edu<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each person infected with Influenza A (H1N1) will infect between 2.2 and 3.1 others\u00a0 &#8212; a &#8220;reproduction ratio&#8221;\u00a0 European researchers say is historically similar to\u00a0 other influenza pandemics.\u00a0Alexander Ozonoff, professor of biostatistics, stresses the spread of the flu virus\u00a0is separate\u00a0 from its severity. &#8220;On general virological principles we would expect that transmissibility correlates negatively with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[985,861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}