Mutated Swine Flu?

Worried about the Swine Flu?
Well this one seems to make H1N1 look like a walk in the park.....

Number of victims to unknown virus growing! State of emergency to be imposed in Ukraine? (updated at 11:13 am)
MIGnews.com.ua

Yesterday, on October 29 some media reported that allegedly in the Ternopil Region cases of ill people with typhus were registered, and that militarized detachments limited entrance and departure from the territory of the Ternopil Region. However, the Public Relations Center of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Ternopil Region denied information about it.

Yesterday, on October 29 the chief physician of the regional sanitary-epidemiological station Halyna Hrynchuk assured that Kyiv Region is ready for prophylaxis and treatment of influenza, reported Yulia Makoveeva, MIGnews.com.ua correspondent.

In the Ternopil Region 25 percents of infectiologists who worked with patients with acute respiratory viral infections are ill, the chairman of the Association of infectiologists of Ukraine Mykhaylo Andreychin reported yesterday, on October 29 at a press conference.

Full article here:
http://mignews.com.ua/en/articles/376537.html

Is this a mutated form of H1N1?
Was the spread of Bird Flu (remember how awful that was supposed to be a few years ago?) not quite powerful enough?
Is everyone getting used to Swine Flu now?
Are we now looking at an new, unknown influenza with a higher mortality rate that kills faster than H1N1?

Check out this page from the RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service...
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?glide=EH-20091028-23630-UKR&cat=dis%E2%8C%A9=eng

Notice it says "Cause of event: Unknown", "Damage level: Large".

Here's some more info:

The Cabinet of Ministers has imposed quarantine in nine regions due to А(H1N1) flu epidemics, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said.
In particular, the prime minister said that the quarantine works are held in Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, and Ternopil regions, in which flu cases were registered.
http://www.ukranews.com/eng/article/228446.html

I really don't want this to come off as fear-mongering.
It could be that this is just H1N1 and these poor people don't have the access to medical resources to fight it off like we do.
Of course some will think that "TPTB" are just testing new bio-weapons to see which is more effective at reducing the world's population.

"Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature."
Inscription from the Georgia Guidestones

UPDATE:
More from MIG News:
Ministry of Health has not established the exact diagnosis of the epidemic disease in the western regions of Ukraine. Health Minister Vasyl Knyazevich has given information about spread of diseases in the Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv Regions today at the meeting of Cabinet of Ministers.
http://mignews.com.ua/en/categ386/articles/376396.html

Swine Flu, What's Going On?

So what is going on?
First the "positive" headlines...

US officials downplay swine flu outbreak-United Press International
Swine flu epidemic on decline: Mexico-CBC.ca
Officials: H1N1 flu has so far been less severe than feared-Baltimore Sun
Mexico: Swine flu epidemic on decline-The Associated Press
Mexico says it past the peak in flu epidemic-Reuters

And now headlines that don't look so positive...

First probable Swine Flu cases found outside Chicago-Chicago Sun-Times
In state, potential cases of swine flu reach 25-Seattle Times
Florida up to 15 suspected, 3 confirmed cases of swine flu-ABC Action News
Colombia confirms first case of swine flu-The Associated Press
First swine flu cases in L.A. County confirmed-Los Angeles Times

So what is really going on?
Reports say that the CDC is only testing severe cases.
So how many cases are out there that are not confirmed?
And if the cases are not severe enough to be tested, whats the problem?

According to WHO, 18 countries have officially reported 898 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection.
Mexico has reported 506 confirmed human cases of infection, including 19 deaths.
The United States Government has reported 226 laboratory confirmed human cases, including one death.

I guess the big question is how many cases are out there unreported, and could there be unreported deaths as well?

Here are the CDC's official stats on U.S. Human Cases of H1N1 Flu Infection as of May 3, 2009, 11:00 AM ET, from their website.....
Alabama 1
Arizona 18
California 26
Colorado 4
Connecticut 2
Delaware 10
Florida 3
Illinois 3
Indiana 3
Iowa 1
Kansas 2
Kentucky 1 (resident of KY but currently hospitalized in GA.)
Massachusetts 7
Michigan 2
Minnesota 1
Missouri 1
Nebraska 1
Nevada 1
New Hampshire 1
New Jersey 7
New Mexico 1
New York 63
Ohio 3
Rhode Island 1
South Carolina 15
Tennessee 1
Texas 40, 1 death
Utah 1
Virginia 3
Wisconsin 3

TOTAL (30) 226 cases 1 death

From all the reports I'm reading, 226 cases in the US seems awfully low.

And here's something I found interesting...
At Google Trends, swine flu isn't even in the top 100 searches.
Really? Has interest fallen off that quickly?
That's kind of funny, because at Yahoo's Buzz Index, Swine Flu is still number one even with a 238 drop.
And at the trending topics on Twitter, Swine Flu is number two.