Fantastic. While I am trying my absolute best to try and not take these statistics to heart, I undoubtedly am, and I'm left worrying more than ever. BBC News reported it on their 'BREAKING NEWS' Twitter feed (urgh) and I went to the HPA website to see what was going on.

Can anyone make any sense of these? It all sounds too vague to me - they don't seem to know why the onset is early this year.

http://www.hpa.org.uk/NewsCentre/Nat...virusactivity/