Topic: United Kingdom

Swine flu death toll rises to 65

The number of deaths of people with swine flu has risen to 65, but the rate of infection is still dropping, official figures released on Thursday showed.Britain, the country hardest hit in Europe by the A(H1N1) virus pandemic, expects a second wave ...
About half of Hong Kong's health workers would refuse the swine flu vaccine, new research says, a trend that experts say would likely apply worldwide.In a study that polled 2,255 Hong Kong health workers this year, researchers found even during the height ...
Healthy people who get swine flu don't need Tamiflu; drug for young, old, pregnantThe World Health Organization said Friday that Tamiflu should only be given to particularly vulnerable people a warning to countries like Britain where the swine flu drug is being ...

Swine flu cases still on way down

The number of people with swine flu in England is continuing to fall, new figures show.. Across the UK, there has been a 37 per cent drop in the number of people consulting their GP about flu-like symptoms. Southwark has the highest ...
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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 ...

Doctors voice fears over flu phoneline

An overwhelming majority of doctors fear that infections and serious diseases could be missed because swine flu is being diagnosed over the phone, a poll showed Wednesday.Nearly 90 percent of 251 general practitioners questioned by GP newspaper fear that conditions such as ...

Russia tells fans to avoid Wales over swine flu

Russian football fans should stay away from the national team's World Cup qualifying tie with Wales in Cardiff next month due to the risk of contracting swine flu, the state health agency said Monday. "This would be an extremely uneccessary and inappropriate ...

Swine flu 'may have plateaued' in UK

The swine flu pandemic " may have plateaued" in Britain, health officials said Thursday, estimating some 110,000 new cases last week, only 10 percent higher than the previous week.The number of deaths in England was 27, just one up on the previous ...