Specialists assure that the flu epidemiological situation is under control and hope that there won’t be many case of flu this season or the disease will have a light form as a large part of the population was vaccinated. Constantin Spanu, vice director of the National Public Health Center, has told Info-Prim Neo that the flu AH1N1, which caused havoc in 2009-2010, used up its pandemic potential and became seasonal flu at the end of 2010. “For the first time, we faced the pandemic flu, against which there was no vaccine, in 2009. The anti- pandemic vaccine appeared afterward and we immunized the population. After 2010, the pandemic virus AH1N1 became seasonal flu,” stated Constantin Spanu. He explained that the Spanish, Chinese and the other kinds of flu were pandemic at first, but they were included in the list of seasonal flu that can be controlled by seasonal vaccines after measures to prevent and combat them were identified. In the 2009-2010 pandemic period, 43 persons in Moldova died from AH1N1. Afterward, Moldova purchased 100,000 doses of vaccine and 24% of the population was vaccinated. After vaccination, the morbidity rate fell five times. No case of death from flu was recorded in 2011-2012. Constantin Spanu said that the World Health Organization this February will provide a new consignment of vaccines, against all the flu stains in circulation, for the next season. Six cases of seasonal flu have been confirmed this year so far. Four of them were of type B, while two of type AH1N1.