America's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the disease will infect three hundred fifty million to five hundred million people around the world this year.
VOA: special.2010.04.20
The data from both less-reliable observational studies and clinical trials was conflicting, and Merck began three big cancer prevention studies that could also assess any risk Vioxx caused to the heart.
"In these last three months, governments have rapidly strengthened their pandemic stockpile and prevention strategies, " said GlaxoSmithKline's chief executive, Andrew Witty.