Photo: Summer to Kill Swine Flu in U.S. and Mexico?



An ambulance driver wearing a face mask drives to Hospital La Fe in Valencia, Spain, on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, where a swine flu patient was being treated.

The current H1N1 swine flu outbreak may be slowed considerably by summer's heat and humidity, at least in the Northern Hemisphere, experts say.

Photograph by Alberto Saiz/AP


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