Do not know the numbers of the top of my head but I can hunt through my old files and see. There were a number of GB cases that were linked to the vaccination, that I do recall.
The whole name "swine flu" is a misnomer in this case and in the '77 pandemic as neither were transmitted to humans by swine (or any other animal for that matter.) The "swine" comes into play because of the history and evolution of the flu. Certain strains of flu normally circulate in swine and those same strains can infect humans (the '77 pandemic was H1N2 IIRC which is one of these.) Genetic level analysis of this particular strain indicates that some of the components of this strain are similar to those that have traditionally been found in swine populations. However since it is still too early to tell how this particular strain got into the human population so we do not know just what it is really. But by all accounts there apparently is no history of swine exposure at all, it has all been human to human. Technically the 1918 flu was a swine flu as well though we all know it as Spanish flu (which is also an odd one to me considering it originated in a military base in Kansas...)
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