Almost 100 new swine flu cases reported in Russia in five days
16 October 2009 | 00:24 | FOCUS News Agency
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n197373
Moscow. Almost 100 people have been confirmed as suffering from swine flu in Russia since October 11, the country’s top doctor said on Thursday, RIA Novosti reported.
“As of October 15, 807 cases of A/H1N1 have been registered in our country,” Gennady Onishchenko said, adding that in 562 cases the people had become infected whilst travelling abroad.
On October 11, there were 709 confirmed cases of swine flu in Russia. No one has died in Russia of the virus.
A number of schools have been temporarily closed in the country over swine flu fears.
According to the latest report from the World Health Organization, 340,000 cases of swine flu have been confirmed throughout the world and 4,100 people have died from the virus as of September 27.
FL:
State swine flu deaths reach 121; shots are here
By MARY SHEDDEN | The Tampa Tribune
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/15/151559/pinellas-has-first-swine-flu-shots-clinics-schedul/news-breaking/
Florida’s swine flu death toll jumped to 121 just as the long-awaited injectable vaccine arrived locally.
The weekly update released Thursday by the Florida Department of Health includes six people from Tampa Bay, including a 10-month-old girl from Sarasota County and a 56-year-old Polk County woman.