CDC's Swine Flu Toll: 4,000 Dead

Hundreds of Miami County residents stand in line in a shuttered department store at the Miami Valley Centre Mall in Piqua, Ohio on Nov. 2 to get the county's first doses of H1N1 vaccine.

—Mike Ullery/Piqua Daily Call/AP
By The Associated Press
Washington

Estimates of deaths caused by the swine flu have grown to nearly 4,000 since April, roughly quadrupling previous estimates. But that doesn't mean swine flu suddenly has worsened.

Instead, the federal numbers made public Thursday reflect a long-awaited better attempt to quantify the new flu's true toll. Most cases still don't require a doctor's care.

Swine flu has sickened about 22 million Americans since April and...

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