Macedonia reports its first swine flu death
Skopje - Macedonia on Wednesday reported its first swine flu death - a 32-year-old man who died in Skopje hospital according to local media. The man was hospitalized earlier this week with a serious case of pneumonia. ...
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Jordan reports three new swine flu deaths raising total to 14
Amman - The Jordanian health authorities on Wednesday reported three new swine flu fatalities which raised the country's total to 14 so far, according to a Health Ministry statement. The ministry said 87 people tested positive for the H1N1 virus this...
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Baltic states swine flu death toll rises
Riga - Fears grew about the spread of the A/H1N1 flu virus, known commonly as swine flu, in the Baltics Wednesday, after Latvian health officials confirmed two more deaths as a result of the illness. The Centre for Infectious Diseases said a 49-year-...
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Slovakia reports first suspected swine flu death
Bratislava - A 32-year-old Slovak man who died in hospital on Tuesday is suspected of being Slovakia's first swine flu fatality, public health officials said Wednesday. The chronically ill man, who was confirmed to have been infected with the H1N1 in...
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First swine flu death in Serbia
Belgrade - Serbian health officials reported the country's first death from swine flu after a 46-year old woman succumbed to the illness. The woman, suffering from respiratory problems, arrived in critical condition at a hospital in Kragujevac, centr...
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Czech Republic reports first suspected swine flu-related death
Prague - A middle-aged Czech woman, who died in hospital Thursday, is suspected to have been the country's first case of a swine flu-related death, a hospital spokeswoman said. Further tests are to confirm on Friday whether the patient was infected w...
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Instant flu treatment needed; risk for very young - Summary
Washington - The nation's top immunization expert Tuesday warned physicians to treat suspected cases of swine flu immediately rather than waiting for the results of a common but unreliable rapid test. Dr Anne Schuchat, director of the National Cent...
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US official: Instant flu treatment needed; risk for very young
Washington - The nation's top immunization expert Tuesday warned physicians to treat suspected cases of swine flu immediately rather than waiting for the results of a common but unreliable rapid test. Dr Anne Schuchat, director of the National Cent...
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Potential swine flu vaccines for Guantanano detainees
Washington - Guantanamo Bay detainees could receive swine flu vaccines but are low on the priority list, well behind soldiers deployed overseas and civilian personnel, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The possibility that detainees, including the alleged...
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Swine flu said to claim 11 in Ukraine - Summary
Kiev - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Friday blamed swine flu for the death of 11 people so far, as government officials moved to head off an epidemic. Yushchenko announced the death toll at a press briefing televised nationally and describ...
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Global swine flu deaths nudge towards 5,000
Geneva - The global death toll from swine flu has hit at least 4,999, the World Health Organization said Friday. In a situation update, the WHO said that, in North America, the United States was reporting nationwide rates of influenza-like illness (I...
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Norwegians urged to get vaccination against swine flu
Oslo - All citizens of Norway were urged Friday to vaccinate themselves against theA(H1N1) virus, or swine flu. The Nordic country of 4.8 million people has registered 10 deaths among more than 2,000 cases reported. ...
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Ukraine confirms first swine flu death, quarantine ordered
Kiev- Ukraine suffered its first death from swine flu, as the government declared a massive quarantine and control effort to head off a possible epidemic, the Interfax news agency reported. The victim was a man living in Ukraine's western Lviv region...
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Jordan reports two new swine flu deaths
Amman - The Jordanian Ministry of Health on Wednesday reported two new swine flu fatalities that raised the number of deaths in Jordan so far to 10. One of the two cases was a three and one-half year-old child who was suffering from lymph cancer, whi...
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Serbia formally declares flu epidemic
Belgrade - The Serbian government has formally declared an epidemic of the swine flu on Wednesday and ordered steps aimed at curbing the effects of the disease, Health Minister Tomica Milosavljevic said. The measures include a ban on public gathering...
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Dutch report first patient resistant to Tamiflu drug
Amsterdam - Dutch health authorities have recorded a first case of a swine flu-infected patient resistant to the anti-viral drug Tamiflu. The Royal Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM said the patient had been hospitalized, but decli...
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First local swine flu death reported in Austria
Vienna - Swine flu claimed its first local victim in Austria Tuesday, as a 39-year-old man died in Salzburg province, the region's health chief Christoph Koenig confirmed. The Romanian man died of a heart attack at a hospital in Schwarzach, most like...
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Belarus registers first swine flu death
Minsk- The first Belarusian death from swine flu was registered by health officials on Tuesday. The victim, a 37-year-old female resident of the town of Drogichin, died on Friday, but results of blood tests confirming the presence of the H1N1 virus o...
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Swine flu claims 11th victim in Turkey
Istanbul - The death toll from the swine flu has more than doubled in the last day in Turkey, with health officials announcing Tuesday that the illness has claimed its eleventh victim in that country. The latest victims included a 22-month-old baby a...
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Tommy Haas in swine flu scare - Summary
Hamburg - German tennis player Tommy Haas has overcome a bout of swine flu quickly because of his fitness as a professional athlete, the nation's Davis Cup team doctor said on Tuesday. Athletes are more resistant than other people, leading to a shor...
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First swine flu death reported in Slovenia
Ljubljana- Slovenia reported its first death from swine flu after an elderly woman succumbed to the illness, local media reported Tuesday. The woman, between 50 to 60 years old, was admitted to Ljubljana hospital on Friday, where her condition deteri...
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South Korea declares red alert against swine flu
Seoul - South Korea on Tuesday raised the flu alert level to its highest status because of the rising spread of swine flu. The red alert level, the highest on South Korea's four-level scale, means that government authorities would be mobilized to fig...
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First swine flu death suspected in Poland
Warsaw - A 37 year-old man suspected of carrying the H1N1 virus died in Gdansk on Friday in what was thought to be the country's first swine flu fatality, local media reported. The man died of pneumonia after a week in the hospital, reported the Poli...
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France begins mass swine-flu vaccinations - Summary
Paris - France began Thursday vaccinating the general public against swine flu. The first wave of inoculations concerns what the French Health Ministry described as top-priority segments of the population. ...
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