[johnandrhonda]

If this flu, like the others, is seasonal—why isn't it spreading in the southern hemisphere? Aren't we all supposed to be dreading the coming fall and winter flu season? Well, its winter right now in South America. Is the H1N1 flu ravishing the population there? If not, why not?

[netmilsmom]

Stop it. You’re not allowed to make sense. ;-)

[Tucker822]

It is spreading in the southern hemisphere:

In Australia, the state of Victoria, the hardest hit so far, reported this week that swine H1N1 now accounts for 99 per cent of all flu cases. It is a similar story in South America. In Chile, swine H1N1 is also outrunning the seasonal virus. “Ninety-eight per cent of the flu cases we have now are caused by H1N1,” Chile’s under-secretary of public health, Jeanette Vega, told a pandemic summit in Cancún, Mexico, last week. “The seasonal vaccine is useless.”

In Argentina, where authorities in the capital Buenos Aires declared a health emergency last week, health minister Juan Manzur says 90 per cent of the flu virus in circulation is swine H1N1.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327164.000-swine-flu-sweeps-the-southern-hemisphere.html

[Gorzaloon]

Aren't we all supposed to be dreading the coming fall and winter flu season? Well, its winter right now in South America. Is the H1N1 flu ravishing the population there? If not, why not?

My friends in Australia are getting hammered with it. They all lived, BTW.

[mysterio]

Well, its winter right now in South America. Is the H1N1 flu ravishing the population there? If not, why not?

This article has some of the answers.