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BEIJING, Nov. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Health officials are finding that bacterial pneumonia cases are rising along with instances of the A/H1N1 virus. Doctors are seeing an increase in flu complications leading to pneumonia. At the same time, cases of seasonal flu are at record levels because of the new A/H1N1 virus. Meanwhile there was concern recently in the Ukraine where nearly two hundred died in what's been described as an outbreak of a new "super flu". The Sunday Express in Britain said that a "cocktail of three flu viruses" were reported to have mutated into a single pneumonic plague. Read the story here.