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Posted Thu Jul 9 2009: from New Scientist:
Swine flu sweeps the southern hemisphere http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1247161884
Meanwhile, in the southern hemisphere, in the midst of its winter flu season, swine H1N1 virus seems to be replacing the seasonal flu viruses that circulated till now -- classic pandemic behaviour. This raises concerns that seasonal flu vaccine, which some companies are still making, may be useless when the northern hemisphere's flu season arrives later this year.... In Australia, the state of Victoria, the hardest hit so far, reported this week that swine H1N1 now accounts for 99 per cent of all flu cases. It is a similar story in South America. In Chile, swine H1N1 is also outrunning the seasonal virus. "Ninety-eight per cent of the flu cases we have now are caused by H1N1," Chile's under-secretary of public health, Jeanette Vega, told a pandemic summit in Cancun, Mexico, last week. "The seasonal vaccine is useless."
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H1N1 is just so bossy, pushing out those other flus like it does.

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