Big drop in new swine flu cases

**The News Bot** · 10-08-2009, 12:25 PM

The number of new cases of H1N1 swine flu in England and Scotland has fallen significantly, latest figures show.

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Mullicious · 19-08-2009, 9:15 AM

What a suprise.

Miyazaki · 19-08-2009, 11:43 AM

Are "cases of swine flu" based on real diagnoses or people phoning up the hotline, saying they have a headache and then prescribed tamifly?

johntheexpat · 19-08-2009, 3:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Miyazaki

Are "cases of swine flu" based on real diagnoses or people phoning up the hotline, saying they have a headache and then prescribed tamifly?

Interesting point. A couple of weeks a go in Marseille, an old folks home was quarantined because of a feared outbreak of H1N1 (as we call it over the Channel). They actually did tests (!) and found out it was a 'regular' flu.
At about the same time I read that the WHO announced 100,000 cases confirmed globally.
Which is the number I thought the UK was working on weekly.

So, does anyone have any idea what the real UK rate was? Any numbers at all would be a start.

(The fact that the UK seems to have gone totally over-board in its response to the first wave doesn't mean I'm not concerned about the second wave, since it does seem to be behaving as predicted.)