But comparing H1N1 to a seasonal flu outbreak doesn't tell the whole story, says Salt Lake Valley Health Department director Gary Edwards. There's no handy vaccine for the pandemic flu, although it's probably coming. And at least some people have some immunity to seasonal flu, while that's not the case here, hence the "novel" in the name. H1N1 types have circulated before, but not this exact one, Rolfs says, although some similarity may be giving older people a bit of a break.

If a vaccine is developed, it will likely take two doses, not one: a howdy dose and an immune-building one.

The newly reported deaths include a Davis County man and a woman from Salt Lake County. Both were between the ages of 25 and 50 and died June 13. The six previously reported deaths, ranged from a child between the ages of 5 and 18 to a 58-year-old woman. Health officials say most of them of them had an identifiable underlying condition that made complications more likely. Those include being under age 5, pregnant or having certain chronic medical conditions.

More information is online at health.utah.gov/h1n1.

Contributing: James Thalman

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