"You do not know how bad that is going to be. There have been children who have died from the swine flu,".

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Ostroff says it may be because American doctors are counting milder cases, which appear more like a bad flu and less like pneumonia.

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Mr McCarney told police that night Millie was "dopey with a real bad dose of flu".

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Still, some people feel bad after a flu shot.

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