Swine flu rates have continued to fall across the West Midlands for the fifth week in a row.

Sep 8 2009 by John Marsden, Birmingham Post

Numbers of patients seeing their GP over flu-like illnesses stood at 14 per 100,000 people for the week ending August 30 compared to 200 at the end of July.

Victims admitted to hospital in the past week also continued to fall, to 32 compared with 45 the previous week.