Swine flu may have peaked

Thursday 30th July 2009, 2:10PM BST.

CHILE Flu 1The number of swine flu cases “may have plateaued”, with 110,000 new cases in England last week, the Government said today.

The data represent a 10% rise on the 100,000 new cases estimated in the previous weeks.

The current death total linked to the virus for England is 27, while 793 patients are being treated in hospital.



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