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Swine flu cases back on rise
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ATLANTA (AP) — Officials say there's been a five-fold increase of cases of a new strain of swine flu that spreads from pigs to people. The case count jumped from 29 a week ago to 158 this week, thanks to a wave of new cases confirmed in Indiana and Ohio. The good news is the flu does not seem to be unusually dangerous, like the strain in 2009 that killed at least 12,000.