Topic: Health Protection Agency

New swine flu deaths reported in UK

Eight people have died from swine flu in England since early September, health authorities have told AFP, with Britain seemingly at the forefront of a winter resurgence in Europe.The Health Protection Agency (HPA) insisted it was to be expected that the H1N1 ...

New swine flu deaths reported

Eight people have died from swine flu in England since early September, health authorities told AFP on Saturday, with Britain seemingly at the forefront of a winter resurgence in Europe.The Health Protection Agency (HPA) insisted it was to be expected that the ...

Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over.Officials also said they were investigating several troubling outbreaks of drug-resistant H1N1 ...
Health authorities said Friday they are investigating what could be the world's first cases of person-to-person transmission of a strain of drug-resistant swine flu.Five people in a hospital unit in Wales have a strain of the A(H1N1) virus that is resistant to ...

Govt probes transmission of drug-resistant flu

Health authorities said Friday they are investigating what could be the world's first cases of person-to-person transmission of a strain of drug-resistant swine flu.Five people in a hospital unit in Wales have a strain of the A(H1N1) virus that is resistant to ...

Swine flu cases in England down by 25%

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 ...

Swine flu cases double in UK

The country's number of new swine flu cases almost doubled in a week in the second weekly increase following a summer lull, official date released Thursday showed.At least 66 schools in England have recorded outbreaks of the A(H1N1) virus since children returned ...

Second children's farm closed over E.coli

A second petting farm has closed after an E. coli outbreak at its sister farm left 14 children ill in hospital.. The closure of Horton Park Children's Farm, in Epsom, Surrey, over hygiene concerns follows that of Godstone Farm, also in Surrey.. ...

England flu deaths up, infections down

The number of deaths in England linked to swine flu increased from 27 to 36 in the past week but the overall number of cases " decreased significantly," health authorities said Thursday.The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said there were 30,000 new cases ...
British health officials say the number of new swine fu cases has decreased sharply in the past week.The Health Protection Agency says there were an estimated 30,000 new cases in England in the past seven days, down from 110,000 the previous week.Britain ...
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