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Today, the state of Illinois announced 12 additional deaths due to the H1N1 flu virus (aka swine flu). Meanwhile, counties are struggling to keep up with the demand for the vaccination, but there are some serious inconsistencies as to how much each county gets.

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St. Charles East High School will be closed tomorrow and will remain shuttered through at least Monday as over 900 of the school's 2,100 students called in sick today due to flu-like symptoms. Administrators had no word on how many, if any, of the students were sick with the H1N1 strain of the virus. It's not the first school in the area to be shut down because of widespread flu-related absences; Serena Grade School in LaSalle County is closed for similar reasons.

In the category of unstoppable diseases, ten cases of a drug-resistant flu have been diagnosed at a Chicago-area health care facility. The name of the facility has not been released. But the emergence of a flu strain that is not responding to Tamiflu, the most popular front-line anti-viral medication, is causing concern among health officials.