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Northeast Child Latest Victim Of H1N1
Posted: 12:27 pm MST November 4, 2009
Updated: 12:42 pm MST November 4, 2009
EL PASO, Texas — A 9-year-old child from Northeast El Paso became the county’s 10th 2009 H1N1 influenza-related fatality, the city of El Paso Department of Public Health reported Wednesday. The child was recently hospitalized with an influenza-like illness. Laboratory tests confirmed the child had the H1N1 virus.
Citizens can take measures to protect themselves from getting and spreading the flu, including:
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http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/21521809/detail.html
The National Institute of Public Health (RIVM) says that, for the first time in the Netherlands, the antiviral drug, Tamiflu, has had no effect on a patient infected with swine flu.
Most people infected with the A(H1N1) virus which causes the flu (known as Mexican flu in the Netherlands) show immediate improvement after receiving Tamiflu. The person concerned did not recover at all.
Worldwide, there have only been 39 cases of flu patients failing to show any improvement after taking the antiviral drug
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/first-tamiflu-failure-netherlands