A 23-year-old soldier from Florida who was in basic training is the Army's first death from complications of swine flu, officials said Thursday. The death at Fort Jackson, the Army's largest training camp and just outside Columbia, may be the first such loss among the nation's 1.4 million men and women in uniform. Pentagon officials said they were trying Thursday morning to confirm details of the case. But as of late last week, Department of Defense spokesmen said no military deaths had been...Read Full Story
A Saudi man has died after being struck down by swine flu, the health ministry said on Monday, the first such death in a country set to welcome vast numbers of Muslim pilgrims later this year. The 30-year-old man was admitted to a private hospital in Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday with a fever and pneumonia. He died on Saturday from A(H1N1) despite treatment with antibiotics and the anti-viral drug Tamiflu, the ministry said. Israel, meanwhile, on Monday confirmed its first death...Read Full Story
Russia's health authorities Monday vehemently denied that the country had recorded its first fatality from the A(H1N1) virus, contradicting a top doctor's claim that a woman had recently died of swine flu. "Not a single case that had a fatal conclusion -- in other words, death -- has been recorded on the territory of the Russian Federation," said Deputy Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova, quoted by news agencies. She said that the woman, a 46-year-old Russian doctor who recently returned...Read Full Story
India on Monday registered its first swine flu death after a 14-year-old girl in the western city of Pune died from the disease, media reports said. The teenager was admitted to a private hospital on July 27, six days after initially feeling unwell and consulting doctors. She was put on an intensive care ward on July 29 and confirmed to have swine flu the following day. No one at the state or city health department was immediately available to comment when contacted by AFP but the domestic...Read Full Story
A 41-year-old Portuguese man who lives in France died Wednesday in Portugal after contracting swine flu, becoming the nation's first fatality from the A(H1N1) virus, Health Minister Ana Jorge said. The man, who suffered from kidney trouble and was on holiday in Portugal, died at a hospital in the northern city of Oporto, she told reporters. "The 41-year-old patient, who had a kidney transplant 14 years ago and whose body was rejecting the organ, had been hospitalised in France where he lives...Read Full Story
A mum whose toddler and unborn child were killed by swine flu has given birth to a daughter. Gemma Ameen, 29, has named the baby Lian. She was born four weeks early weighing 5lb 1oz. In December 2010, Lana, three, died within 48 hours of developing symptoms.
BLOOMSBURG, Pa., Aug. 23, 2009 -- -More than 230,000 cases of the HIN! swine flu have been confirmed world wide. About 2,100 persons have died. As much as one-fourth of America's workforce an 2 billion of the world's population may be infected by the new ...
BRADENTON, Fla., May 2, 2009 -- About six months before the H1N1 'swine flu' virus broke out, an immigrant from Bangladesh began selling food on the streets of Mexico City. Shortly before his own death, the food vendor was visited by his brother, who ...
In the spring of 2009, the phrase “H1N1 Virus” became a prominent part of the vernacular in Southeast Texas. For good reasons, swine flu was on everyone’s mind about three years ago. Many schools in the Houston area were closed for several ...
It was just about three years ago that a strange new strain of flu first appeared in Mexico, then spread across the border to the United States and eventually much of the globe. The H1N1 “swine” flu strain didn’t behave like a “normal ...
Aug. 10, 2010 -- The H1N1 swine flu pandemic is over, the World Health Organization declared today. The world has now entered the "post-pandemic period" in which the H1N1 virus has begun acting like -- and circulating with -- other flu bugs. "The new H1N1 ...
Authorities are worried about another Swine Flu outbreak following reports that two people died from the H1N1 virus in Reynosa. The En Linea Directa website is reporting that two people are believed to have died due to the virus. Mexican health officials ...
Mitchell Wiener was a victim of swine flu. Mitchell Wiener, 55, died at Flushing Hospital Medical Center in New Yrok, 6days after he got sick and 4 days after he was hospitalized with a temperature of 103.
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Mitchell Wiener, the assistant principal of Intermediate School 238 in Hollis, Queens, died Sunday. Hours before the death of the assistant principal, Mitchell Wiener, city officials announced that fi