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29 dead from swine flu in Mexico

Matthew — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:01:13 +0000

...Mexico, 29 people have been killed by swine flu since the beginning of this year. In total about fifteen hundred are reported to be suffering from the disease. The country's authorities are not going to introduce special measures in connection with the growing...

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Mexican health officials keep careful eye on Swine flu spike

Matthew — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:01:33 +0000

...sore throat and problems breathing, you've got to go the doctor," Chertoriviski said. Mexico was the epicenter of a surprise swine flu outbreak in 2009, when H1N1 - at the time a faceless, unknown virus -- brought Mexico City to a standstill. In 2009 the World...

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Mexico health sec: Swine flu way up after low year

Matthew — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:01:32 +0000

...CITY (AP) - Mexico's federal health secretary says swine flu cases in January have surpassed the number for all of 2011, a year when the virus barely appeared worldwide. Salomon Chertorivski Woldenberg says there have been 1,623 cases of all strains of flu...

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Swine flu spikes in Mexico

Matthew — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:01:26 +0000

...cases of all strains of flu in Mexico so far in January, 90 per cent of them H1N1. That's the version that originally was called swine flu when it caused a pandemic that started in Mexico in 2009. Chertorivski says 32 people have died from flu, 29 of them...

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22 Patriotic Posters – From Demon Uncle Sam to Swine Flu Obama (TrendHunter.com)

Matthew — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:01:04 +0000

Politics in the United States of America is the most followed system of government in the entire world and these political posters say it all. The classic Uncle Sam with the pointing finger has been re-created into a ghoulish monster from hell, as well a

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Additional Cases of Swine Flu in Mexico [Video]

Matthew — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:01:09 +0000

...250 percent in just one week. Three years ago the World Health Organization issued a Global Pandemic warning as the cases of swine flu spread throughout the world. there were reports that the strain was killing one out of every fifteen cases. This would be...

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Deceased Indonesian Had Swine Flu, Not Bird Flu

Matthew — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:01:08 +0000

...to have died as a result of contracting bird flu was instead killed by complications caused by the H1N1 virus, formerly known as swine flu. Rohmad, 18, from Tangerang, died on Wednesday after five days in the isolation ward at Tangerang General Hospital. He...

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Mexico Ups Swine Flu Screening as Cases Increase

Matthew — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:01:20 +0000

...said Wednesday that it was instituting screening measures in all elementary schools for the H1N1 flu strain, commonly called swine flu when the first outbreak was discovered in Mexico in March 2009. The ministry revised its message later to say screenings...

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Mexico ups swine flu screening as cases increase

Matthew — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:01:19 +0000

...years after swine flu closed Mexico City and caused an international scare, the Mexican government and local media are at odds over the severity of this season's flu virus. Newspapers are warning of an alarming increase in cases while the government insists...

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Older adults may be vulnerable to new swine flu virus

Matthew — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:01:06 +0000

... There may be a lot more vulnerability in the population to a new swine influenza virus than was first thought, new Canadian research suggests. It has been believed that while children and teens are probably vulnerable to the new H3N2 variant, people over...

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