People were urged not to panic on Tuesday as two children and a man died from swine flu, although all had pre-existing health conditions.
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LunsfordMD: Swine Flu Mutation is Possible
With no suspected swine flu deaths since Wednesday and fewer people turning up at hospitals, Mexican officials were guardedly optimistic that the worst was over in the outbreak’s epicenter. Cases outside Mexico suggested the new swine flu strain is weaker than feared. But governments moved quickly anyway to ban flights
2 more flu deaths in Thailand (Straits Times)
BANGKOK – THAILAND’S health authorities on Tuesday reported two more deaths from H1N1 flu, raising the country’s total to nine. An eight-year-old girl in Phetchaburi province and a 58-year-old man in Bangkok were the latest people confirmed as succumbing to the A(H1N1) virus, deputy public health minister Manit Nopamornbodi told AFP.
More swine-flu deaths in Alberta, Manitoba, Sask. (Canada.com)
A second Albertan, a fifth Manitoban and a child from Saskatchewan have died after contracting the H1N1 flu virus, also known as swine flu.
Britain has 3 flu deaths a day (Straits Times)
LONDON – TWO children and a man died in Britain on Monday after contracting H1N1 flu although all had pre-existing health conditions, officials said. The deaths of a man and a child from West Yorkshire in northern England and a nine-year-old child from London took the death toll from the virus in Britain to seven.