Archive for November, 2009

source: Saudi Arabia said on Saturday a pilgrim had died of the H1N1 flu virus on the third day of the massive Muslim haj which experts fear could trigger new waves of the pandemic.



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source: Five more Londoners suffering from swine flu have died, health officials revealed today. All deaths were confirmed over the past week.

The latest fatalities bring the number of deaths from the virus in the capital to 50.



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source: Macedonia’s Health Ministry confirmed on Thursday that a 77 years-old man is the country’s second swine flu related death.

He died three days ago at the Skopje Clinic for Anesthesia and Intensive Care, the ministry said noting that only after conducting tests was the cause of death confirmed to be swine flu.



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Spain reported 17 more deaths from the A/H1N1 flu during the week of Nov. 15-21, bringing the total number of deaths to 135 in the country, figures from the Health Ministry showed Thursday.

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Algerian Health Ministry announced Thursday that the A/H1N1 flu has killed three people, the first death cases linked to the flu in the country.

A 50-year-old woman in Biskra and a young woman aged 27 and her baby in Oran died of the virus, the ministry said in a statement without giving further details.

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New Mexico: 4 new deaths. (AP)

Oklahoma: 4 new deaths.

Colorado: 3 new deaths.

Wisconsin: Outagamie County Public Health reported its first H1N1 influenza-related death Wednesday in an adult who had underlying health conditions.



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source: There has been another death here connected to swine flu.

The man – who died in the south of the country – had an underlying health condition.



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Nova Scotia: A 46-year-old man with no underlying medical conditions is Nova Scotia’s sixth death related to the swine flu virus.

New Brunswick: Health officials in New Brunswick say seven people have died from swine flu, with most of those deaths occurring this week.



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source: A FURTHER two people have died after contracting swine flu in Wales, officials confirmed today.

The rise in the death toll – there have been 24 swine flu-related deaths in Wales – follows an announcement that a sixth person being treated at the University Hospital of Wales, in Cardiff, has tested positive for Tamiflu-resistant swine flu.



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The death toll of A/H1N1 flu in Cambodia has increased to five and the virus infected rate topped 28 cases for one week, official of the Health Ministry said on Thursday.

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A total of 161 people died in Turkey from the A/H1N1 virus, according to a statement released Thursday by the Turkish Health Ministry on its Web site.

The Health Ministry also announced that 243 people were hospitalized because of the virus, 70 were in intensive care and 32 were on life support.

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source: Authorities on Thursday identified a fourth person who has fallen victim to swine flu in Switzerland.

A 45-year-old man from the canton of Obwald died on the weekend for reasons not initially made public. An autopsy uncovered evidence that the man was carrying the H1N1 virus.



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Utah: 1 new death.

New Mexico: A 54-year-old Curry County woman and a Quay County infant are among four New Mexicans who died from the H1N1 flu virus this week, according to the state Department of Health.

Maine: Maine’s top health official said two more people in Maine have died of swine flu, bringing the total to nine since August.



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Egypt reported Wednesday two more death cases of A/H1N1 flu, bringing the country’s death toll from the virus to 13, said Egyptian Ministry of Health.

A 50-year-old woman died of A/H1N1 virus in a hospital in Fayoum.

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source: A total of 404 people have died of flu and flu-like illnesses in Ukraine as of late on Wednesday, November 25. Seven people have died of flu and its complications (pneumonia) over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Health Ministry reported.



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