Topic: South America
Amazon Indians' swine flu outbreak under control, Venezuela saysVenezuela's health minister says an outbreak of swine flu among isolated Amazon Indians has been contained.The appearance of swine flu among the Yanomami Indians has been seen as a major health threat because diseases ...
Swine flu outbreak suspected in 7 deaths among isolated Yanomami Indians in VenezuelaSwine flu has appeared among Venezuela's Yanomami Indians, one of the largest isolated indigenous groups in the Amazon, and a doctor said Wednesday that the virus is suspected in seven ...
Brazil has registered 899 deaths from swine flu, maintaining its status as the country worst-hit by the pandemic, according to the health ministry in South America's largest nation.In announcing the data, the ministry also said that the number of serious cases in ...
Bolivian banks have banned customers from wearing masks on their premises, in a bid to curb an epidemic of robberies by people taking advantage of swine flu fears to hide their faces. "We have decided that only staff can wear masks, while ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Researchers in Hong Kong are harvesting antibodies from recovered swine flu patients in the hope of using them to treat people who become seriously ill with the disease this winter.They expect the virus to become more aggressive in ...
President Alvaro Uribe has the swine flu and officials are contacting other South American governments whose leaders attended a summit last week with the Colombian leader, authorities said Sunday.The 57-year-old Uribe began feeling symptoms Friday, the same day as a meeting of ...
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has the swine flu but is doing well, his spokesman said Sunday, just days after the leader returned from a regional summit in Argentina.Uribe began to suffer from symptoms of the flu on Saturday after returning from a ...
Now that the H1N1 swine flu has spread to turkeys in Chile, the UN is concerned that poultry farms around the world could become infected, BBC News reports.. Any further spread of the H1N1 virus between birds, or from birds to humans ...
Brazil now has 557 swine flu deaths, making it the country with the highest number of fatalities in the world from the disease, according to figures announced by the health ministry Wednesday.The toll puts it ahead of the latest count from the ...
An outbreak of swine flu has been detected in two turkey farms in Chile, government veterinary services in the country said.If confirmed, it would be the first infection reported in birds. "The presence of an A(H1N1) virus has been detected in two ...
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