Topic: Europe
WHO investigating swine flu mutations from Norway deaths, says significance still unclearThe World Health Organization said Friday it is investigating samples of variant swine flu linked to two deaths and one severe case in Norway, but that so far the significance of ...
Around 6,750 people have died from the swine flu pandemic, World Health Organisation data showed Friday, about 500 more than a week ago.Data posted a week ago showed that 6,250 people have died from the A(H1N1) virus since it was first uncovered ...
British officials say swine flu cases in England dropped slightly last week, with about 53,000 new cases.In a statement Tuesday, experts guess there were about 64,000 new cases the week before. The numbers are only estimates and have a wide margin of ...
Lithuania says a 14-year-old boy is the country's first swine flu-related fatality.The Health Ministry says the boy died at a clinic in the central city of Kaunas on Wednesday morning. It gave no other details.It was the second reported swine flu death ...
Safety officials in the northwest Swiss canton (state) of Basel-Landschaft say an infant has become the country's first fatality from swine flu.Local daily Basler Zeitung reported Wednesday on its Web site that the 5-month-old child died several days ago.It quoted the top ...
A Polish medical official says that a 48-year-old man infected with the swine flu virus has died.The man could be the first person without any other medical condition to die from the virus in Poland.Robert Starzec, director of a hospital in Lodz, ...
A VIRUS that causes the common cold may be saving people from swine flu. If this intriguing idea turns out to be true, it would explain why swine flu's autumn wave has been slow to take off in some countries and point ...
More than 6,250 people have died in the swine flu pandemic, World Health Organisation data showed Friday, as the global death rate appeared to slow.The number of deaths from the A(H1N1) pandemic in the week to November 8 grew by about 179, ...
Fear of swine flu causes surge of garlic sales in public markets of SerbiaBelgrade's open-air markets were a welter of busy customers on Friday, pushing and shoving to buy one item garlic.In Serbia, garlic has long been regarded as a good luck ...
British officials say that swine flu cases in England dropped by nearly 25 percent in the last week.In a statement issued on Thursday, the Health Protection Agency estimated there were about 64,000 new cases last week, compared with about 84,000 cases the ...