H1N1 circles causing huge amount of late flu cases [Repeat of Mexico Infection]

The virus 'appears to be expanding throughout the United States' and poses 'an ongoing public health threat,' he said.

Swine flu continues to affect more younger people - those ages 5 to 24 - and CDC is still seeing relatively few cases in older people.

SHOOT: In Mexico they also saw a strange increase in ordinary, late season flu before the virus went lethal. There are 5 deaths in the US.

clipped from www.straitstimes.com ATLANTA - US health officials are seeing a surprisingly high number of cases of ordinary, seasonal flu at a time when the flu season typically peters out, and about half of the people testing positive for flu have the new swine flu virus. 'Those who don't have swine flu have seasonal flu, which is still causing widespread or regional illness in about two dozen states and is 'something that we would not expect at this time,' Dr Jernigan said. 'We would be expecting the season to be slowing down or almost completely stopped.' In the United States, there are now more than 4,700 probable and confirmed cases of swine flu, and 173 hospitaliations and four deaths, the CDC's Jernigan said. The tally doesn't include a fifth death that Texas officials said Friday was due to swine flu. Texas health officials said the victim was a 33-year-old Corpus Christi man who had heart problems. 'The H1N1 virus is not going away,' Jernigan said.