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The National Pandemic Flu Service (NPFS) - including the the 24-hour health hotline - will be stood down on Thursday.
The website will also disappear in response to the "steady reduction" in the number of cases, health chiefs have announced.
Critics say the seven-month outbreak - costing an estimated £1bn - has been mishandled by ministers and health officials, with a flawed threat assessment.
Some have accused the World Health Organisation of falling under the influence of pharmaceutical industry giants who have made vast profits from vaccines.
As well as the deaths, there are 124 Britons still in hospital.
The 5,000 cases a week are far below the average for seasonal flu.
Understandably everyone was worried about the possible threat of swine flu last year but the government seems to have jumped in with both feet and a large sack of taxpayers money without thinking it through properly.
Mark Wallace, Taxpayers' Alliance