Intensive care units recorded a 500 per cent increase this year in the number of critically ill flu patients with pneumonia in both lungs -- and experts are concerned what will happen when the disease returns.
The first comprehensive review of the havoc swine flu caused has found the number of ICU admissions this year for any type of influenza A, of which swine flu is one variant, were increased 15-fold on previous years.
And that was with only 36,000 cases of swine flu. What happens if we get a million?
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soon to be followed up by a veritable slew of articles saying that swine flu really wasn't that bad, probably wasn't any more severe than the seasonal flu and actually didn't cause the end of the world...
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