>>http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_09_18/en/index.html
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>Interesting. There was a story on the local news this week that flu cases and ER visits (to our local hospitals) due to the flu have already risen 66% over last year's total. We are only in September and the worst of the flu season usually peaks in February.

And now this for the Brits - The number of new cases of swine flu in England has almost doubled over the last seven days to 9,000, official figures show. That compares with 5,000 the previous week, and 3,000 before that. In Scotland, the new weekly figures showed a slight increase from 6,180 to 7,034.