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(The swine flu was a pandademic, that was suppose to kill millions. Instead, this flu season is milder than a regular flu season.)

The swine Flu
3-1-10

This has been a flu season like few others.

Normally at this time of year, influenza is rampant in the U.S.; prompting hundreds of thousands of people, to stay home in the dead of winter, with fever, aches and pains.

Now, after raging through college campuses and communities, last summer and fall, cases of the new H1N1 swine flu virus, have dwindled to a trickle; and run-of-the-mill seasonal flu has barely made an appearanc

The percentage of all doctors' visits by patients with influenza-like symptoms, has dropped from a high of 7.8% in late October—(the largest peak since the agency began surveillance in 1997)—to 1.8% in late February, well below the norm for flu season.

Doctors and flu experts say the lull is unusual. "This is typically the peak of flu," said James Turner, executive director of the University of Virginia's department of student health. He said the Charlottesville, Va., student health center usually sees as many as 130 students a week, complaining of flu symptoms this time of year.

Recently, no more than three to five students a week, have been coming in with fever, cough or other signs of flu, he said.

It is not clear why there is so little flu, particularly swine flu, going around, experts say. "Surely there's a sufficient number of people who haven't been infected or vaccinated,"

Flu has peaked, in late February or early March, in 20 of the past 26 flu seasons,

By mid-January, swine flu had sickened about 57 million people in the U.S. and killed roughly 11,700—mostly young adults and children—from the time it emerged in late April through mid-January. Young people, who ordinarily fight off flu easily, ended up in intensive care units, on advanced life support
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In past years, when seasonal flu was the big worry, influenza has typically sickened about 25 million people a year, and directly killed about 8,000, according to the CDC.

The H1N1 flu virus hasn't disappeared, and another wave could still come this winter. "We've had peaks [of flu] as late as May, so we're not out of the woods yet," said Dr. Fiore of the CDC's influenza division.

The virus could also mutate, spawning more new infections, though it hasn't done so yet.

Flu experts estimate, that more than half the country's population, may still be vulnerable to the H1N1 virus, either because they haven't been sick, or gotten vaccinated.

H1N1 virus, is likely to eventually become a seasonal strain,