H1N1 expected to replace seasonal flu in coming years

Vaccination seasons in the coming years likely will feel far less chaotic as the swine flu replaces the seasonal flu as the illness to reckon with.

“Over the course of the next year or two, H1N1 will likely supplant the seasonal flu,” said Steven Salzberg, director of the University of Maryland’s Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He added that a similar virus “replacement” happened after the 1967-68 flu pandemic.