Three items:

Czech Republic continues to see increasing influenza cases:
[link to www.szu.cz]

Closure of schools in Oklamhoma due to influenza:
[link to www.joplinglobe.com]

And most importantly, despite the reassurances of the CDC in the 2009 H1N1 Ifluenza Pandemic, the reality was that 24% of the world population got the flu. We got very lucky.

Because of that underplay of data (outright hiding it at times), you must do routine checks on influenza information. Because panic is always a concern, the powers that be will tend to calm folks down regardless of the seriousness of an epidemic or in this case pandemic.
[link to www.cidrap.umn.edu]