Health officials expect decline in H1N1 cases from last year

Influenza strain killed 151 in Arizona since April 2009









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By David Rookhuyzen
Cronkite News Service

PHOENIX – A state health official says that the worst of H1N1 passed last flu season, but don’t put away the hand sanitizer just yet.

We expect H1N1 to be back again this year because that’s what happens when we have pandemics,” said Karen Lewis, the medical director for the Arizona Immunization Program, part of the state Department of Health Services.

But it tends to not have quite the severe impact because fewer total people are infected.”

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