1,500 suspected cases of swine flu last week

AROUND 1,500 people visited GPs last week with suspected swine flu and the number will continue to rise, a senior public health specialist has revealed.

The figure is three times greater than that given at the latest briefing by the Department of health on Tuesday evening.

Director of the Health Protection Surveillance centre, Dr Darina O’Flanagan, said yesterday that the new figure was based on latest data from the Irish College of General Practitioners.