Sunday, July 05, 2009

Swine flu ticking upward rapidly - deaths in New Zealand now

here have been nearly 350 deaths, 10 of them in Australia where the total number of cases reached 5254 yesterday.

In the United States, the White House said it would bring together government officials for a high-level meeting on Thursday week to prepare for the possibility of a more severe outbreak of H1N1 influenza.

The country has 28,000 confirmed cases, including 127 deaths, but computer modelling suggests at least one million people have had it.

SHOOT: It's difficult for me to imagine that next year, in 2010, we'll see Wimbledon and the Tour de France happening as though everything were normak, as though swine flu wasn't an urgent threat. Urgent as in stay-at-home urgent.
clipped from www.news.com.au
Swine flu second wave fears fuelled
QUEENSLAND has recorded a surge in swine flu cases as concern grows internationally over a second wave of the disease.

The number of confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus rose by 85 to 831 in the 24 hours to noon yesterday – more than three times the rate for the previous week.

There are six swine flu patients in hospital, including three in intensive care.

No deaths have yet been reported in the state.

Health authorities in New Zealand yesterday confirmed its first three fatalities.

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