It is about general flu infections, at least about the ones serious enough for hospitalization. They have to do a general test to get the base type in order to treat it. If you go to the graph you linked, you'll see that 33.2% did not get the H1N1 subtype test, but they can assume its H1N1 since there really hasn't been enough of the other cases yet.

I'm not trying to make people panic, this isn't end times :), but you shouldn't take H1N1 too lightly either. It's a bit more serious then the normal flu.

As far as the conspiracies go, leave them for the X-Files. This is not a bio-weapon. The patent you quoted doesn't look too unusual (this is what bio-companies do), other then the fact that they are using the same virus that is going around. If our current H1N1 outbreak was an interferon resistant tumor killer, the hospitals would be overflowing by now.