Held this afternoon in the prevention and control of influenza A H1N1 influenza News conference, the Ministry of Health Office of Health Emergency Liang Wannian, deputy director said that the H1N1 influenza prevention and control of influenza will be a protracted war, associated with the possibility of human very great.

years, said Liang, the World Health Organization experts have been expected that the virus will quickly spread to every corner of the world, at least the duration of one to two years; the world at least 1 / 3 of people infected. In medicine, the most important work of this forecast, but also the most difficult.

Liang years further explained that as the H1N1 Type A influenza, is a new thing, scientists are aware of its relatively shallow, the forecast is even more uncertain. Therefore, this specific virus in China will last a long time, is still unable to give a clear concept.

years Leung said that the prevention and control experience and understanding of the disease showed that the disease such as influenza, whether it is H1N1 or traditional alpha-alpha or beta, once at the community level take root, they will not soon disappear, it may be associated with mankind, and even long-term process.

the last million years, said Liang, from the traditional diseases, development and prevalence of law, the emergence of a new virus, the development direction is three: one is getting heavier and even more high mortality rate; second is gradually weakened virulence, and the elimination of; there is gradually turned into advantages of strain rather than the traditional seasonal flu strains to become the major epidemic, but the same virulence. At present, scientists around the world including Chinese scientists are closely observed the development of a trend of virus flow.