H1N1 Virus Strikes Illinois, 45 Other U.S. States

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Posted: 9:44 PM Nov 18, 2009 H1N1 Virus Strikes Illinois, 45 Other U.S. States Forty-six states, including Illinois, are reporting people falling ill from the H1N1 virus.

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The Center for Disease Control summed up the figures on Capitol Hill today.

In the first six months of the pandemic, 22 million people have become infected, 98-thousand have been hospitalized and nearly four-thousand have died. In Illinois, 36 people have died and more than a thousand have been hospitalized.

But despite those numbers, a new CNN poll found that more than half of adults polled say they don't want to get the H1N1 vaccine.

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