Officials Have Stopped Counting Swine Flu Cases

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Officials say they don't know how many people have the swine flu, but they're guessing that it's more than a million.

"Most people who have respiratory illnesses don't find out exactly what caused it. Even most people with influenza don't know exactly which type of influenza caused their illness," Schuchat told reporters.

The World Health Organization and the CDC have both said they will stop reporting counts of confirmed cases.

"We're no longer going to expect the states will continue this individual reporting and we're going to transition to other ways of describing the illness and the pattern," Schuchat said.