Swine flu starts off seasonal flu unusually early in US

Dr. Christian Sandrock, an assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of California, Davis, works in a region that has seen perhaps the fewest cases this season.

"We haven't really seen it hit the emergency departments and clinics in hospitals yet," he said. "We definitely weren't untouched in June and July."

Weather, he said, may account for the difference.

"We tend to have less humid, much dryer air," he said. That often accounts for less respiratory illness.

SHOOT: Simple - flu loves a crowd.

clipped from abcnews.go.com "It's a typical flu season, but the thing that's so bizarre is it started in late August." "We are overflowing with patients -- none of whom are very ill -- thank goodness," said Dr. Ari Brown, a local pediatrician, in an e-mail to ABC News. "I saw one young man with flu who was the 17th player of his varsity football team to have [swine flu] -- [it's] spreading like wildfire." Folks, the Swine Flu was looked at by a few virologists and they said that it does not have any genetic history. The genes of the virus tell a great deal about it and its history and the Swine Flu does not have any! Like it is brand spanking new or perhaps created in a lab! Edmund_Dantes- 5:28 PM