世衛組織:全球二十億人將被感染

如果目前的豬流感轉為爆發性瘟疫全球三分之一的人,即二十億人將被傳染.這不是預言而是根據過去曆史上爆發瘟疫的情況而作出的估算.
原文如下:

The World Health Organization said Thursday that up to 2 billion people could be infected by swine flu if the current outbreak turns into a pandemic. The agency said a pandemic typically lasts two years.

WHO flu chief Keiji Fukuda said the number wasn't a prediction, but that experience with flu pandemics showed one-third of the world's population gets infected.

"If we do move into a pandemic then our expectation is that we will see a large number of people infected worldwide," Fukuda said. "If you look at past pandemics, it would be a reasonable estimate to say perhaps a third of the world's population would get infected with this virus."