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There have been two new cases of swine flu in Tasmania as authorities prepare to vaccinate 350,000 people before a predicted second wave of the virus hits.

Title: H1N1 Swine Flu Down, Not Out Category: Health News Created: 2/8/2010 11:57:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 2/8/2010 11:57:36 AM

At the height of fear over H1N1 flu this fall, vaccination foes claimed it was safer to get swine flu than to be inoculated against it.

Nationwide, Native Americans were far more likely to die from swine flu infections. Only one Native American died from flu in Oregon during a seven-months stretch of 2009, however, which could indicate lower death rates and better vaccination programs here.

If the U.S. swine-flu epidemic isn’t over, it certainly looks as if it is on its last legs.

H1N1 swine flu is still circulating around the world and still killing people, although it is on the decline everywhere, global health officials said on Friday.

Most Americans do not intend to get the swine flu vaccine, assume the pandemic is over and think the flu threat was overblown, according to a poll released Friday by the Harvard School of Public Health.

If the U.S. swine flu epidemic isn’t over, it certainly looks as if it’s on its last legs. While federal health officials are not ready to declare the threat has passed and the outbreak has run its course, they did report Friday that for the fourth week in a row, no states had widespread flu activity. U.S. cases have been declining since late October.

The global death toll from swine flu has risen to 15,174, up 463 from a week ago, but the pandemic is steadily losing momentum around the world, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.

H1N1 swine flu is still circulating around the world and still killing people, although it is on the decline everywhere, global health officials said on Friday.