IOL.co.za: South Africa had 480 recorded cases of the influenza A H1N1 virus - better known as swine flu - by Friday, said the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.
It was a lot of cases, and most involved youngsters, but "we are not seeing severe illness", said the institute's deputy director Lucille Blumberg.
Nobody was known to have died from the virus in South Africa, she said.
She reiterated previous advice that there was no need to be tested and that not everybody needed treatment. - Sapa
SHOOT: South Africa claims to have 480 recorded cases, but then you have our deputy director Lucille Blumberg saying there is no need to be tested. It's a bit like saying, 'we don't want to know because then we'd have to report it'. I believe in a few months we'll see that there has been under-reporting and under-surveilance of this, and it will catch authorities here by surprise.
WASHINGTON — Fifty-one more swine flu-related US deaths were reported in the United States over the previous week, bringing the toll to 353 in the country worst affected by the global pandemic.
The CDC also announced in its Friday report that it was no longer publishing the individual confirmed and probable cases, or its aggregate total of cases from the 5O US states, its territories and the capital Washington.
As of Monday, some 816 people infected with swine flu had died, according to the World Health Organization.
With the new US figures, plus recent updates to death tolls in Latin America, the region in the midst of winter that has been hardest hit by the virus, the global toll is closer to 950.
Unlike seasonal flu, which usually hits elderly people the hardest, the A(H1N1) virus has mostly infected the young.
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