how many people have died of the flu
Nationally six children have died, this week's CDC report shows. This year the predominant flu strain in the United States is H1N1, the same one that caused the international pandemic in 2009-2010. The CDC estimates that 284,000 people died worldwide during that flu season. Based on what we're seeing so far, this year will be a very different picture than last year, said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.