UK swine flu website overwhelmed as new cases double in a week

July 23, 2009

Swine flu website overwhelmed by demand as new cases double in a week

* Owen Bowcott and and Severin Carrell

* guardian.co.uk, Thursday 23 July 2009 21.27 BST

About 100,000 people caught swine flu in England last week, the chief medical

officer revealed today, as the government's online diagnosis service crashed

within minutes of launch when thousands of people tried to log on at the same

time...

The world's first government-run swine flu diagnosis website could not cope with

the volume of traffic when it finally opened for business at 3pm today. Designed

to handle 1,200 hits a second, the service was suspended just four minutes later

when 2,600 people every second tried to access it...

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