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Afghanistan has recorded its first death from the swine flu pandemic, the public health ministry announced on Wednesday. "The victim was an engineer from Kabul. He was working for a construction company," ministry spokesman Farid Rahid told AFP.The spokesman said the man ...
At least 4,735 people have died from swine flu infections since the A(H1N1) virus was uncovered in April, the World Health Organisation said Friday.This is an increase of 210 fatal cases from a week ago when 4,525 deaths were recorded, the UN ...
Cuba announced that three pregnant women died after contracting swine flu, the first report of A(H1N1) casualties on the communist island. "We unfortunately have to regret three confirmed cases of people who died" of swine flu, Deputy Health Minister Jose Angel Portal ...
At least 4,525 people have died from swine flu infections since the A(H1N1) virus was uncovered in April, the World Health Organisation said Friday.This is an increase of 417 fatal cases from a week ago when 4,108 deaths were recorded, the UN ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new pandemic of H1N1 swine flu is causing a strong second wave of disease in many Northern Hemisphere countries, according to the World Health Organization.While the United States, China and Australia have begun vaccination, other countries have not ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Rich countries should make more vaccine available to poorer nations where the H1N1 virus is starting to hit, U.N. health officials said on Sunday.They said increased readiness for swine flu was needed in developing countries with weaker medical systems ...
Poor countries face "explosive outbreaks" of the global swine flu pandemic and need speedy financial assistance to access vaccines, UN officials warned on Sunday. "What we see now is that the A(H1N1) virus is beginning to penetrate into some of the poorest ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Fresh donations of H1N1 vaccines are expected to swell a global stockpile created to ensure poorer nations have good supplies to contain the swine flu pandemic, a top United Nations health official said on Friday.Dr. David Nabarro, the U.N. ...
UN asks for $1.5 billion to fight swine flu, but experts wonder whether it's worth itUnited Nations health officials claim in a new report they need nearly $1.5 billion to prevent the swine flu epidemic from spiraling into a global catastrophe.But for ...
As I said at the end of 2008, the swine flu or H1N1 looks a lot like the pattern of the Spanish flu of 1918-19 which killed millions, when the population was a lot smaller. And this version has the potential of ...
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