| Remember the regular flu?
More than 56,000 people died from the flu in the United States in 2006, the most recent year for which data is available.
In 2005, the flu killed 63,001 people in the United States.
An average of 36,171 people died each year of flu in the United States from 1993 to 2003, according to a recent CDC study.
(CNSNews.com) |