Europe's flu rate rises, disease spreads eastwards

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Europe's flu rate rises, disease spreads eastwards

Rates of seasonal flu are rising in The Netherlands, Ireland, Spain and France,

and the disease is spreading eastwards with hundreds of people needing treatment

in intensive care units and death tolls also starting to rise.

Experts at the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), which

monitors disease in the region, said they are particularly worried by the number

of younger people affected by the season's flu, which is dominated by the H1N1

strain that spread around the world as a pandemic in 2009/10...

http://news./s/nm/20110125/hl_nm/us_europe_flu