Each year, as monsoon gives way to cooler air, India's respiratory illness season arrives with quiet regularity — and this year is no different. India's top medical research body has confirmed that the current rise in H1N1 cases is a familiar seasonal pattern, not a novel threat, with no new strain detected and most infections resolving on their own. The virus that once carried the alarming name 'swine flu' has long since settled into the ordinary calendar of human illness, mutating annually as viruses do, without crossing the threshold into something genuinely new. The enduring wisdom here is