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Swine flu is refusing to give up its hold on U.S. states with low vaccination rates, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Only Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina -- states where the share of immunized population was among the country’s lowest -- reported outbreaks last week that spread beyond a single locality, according to reports today from the CDC. Eight states reporting local outbreaks were in U.S. regions that had fewer vaccinations than the national average.
One in five Americans was infected by swine flu, or H1N1, since the virus emerged in April 2009, according to the Atlanta- based CDC. Scientists are unsure whether the pandemic virus will spread in the U.S. summer months beginning in June or follow flu’s typical pattern of subsiding with warmer, wetter weather. The CDC still recommends that people be inoculated.
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