MUMS and dads today have just hours left to protect their children from deadly swine flu.

Although H1N1 (swine flu) "has waned across much of the United States, the southeast is reporting an increase in cases of the H1N1 virus, U.S. health officials said on Monday," Reuters reports. The uptick in the number of H1N1 cases was reported in Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia (Allen, 3/29). The Los Angeles Times: "[F]lu-related hospitalizations in Georgia have, since the beginning of ...

Health officials are renewing their push for Americans to get swine flu vaccinations following a recent uptick in hospital cases in Georgia. />No other state has had such an increase in hospitalizations, and overall swine flu illnesses and deaths have been down for months.