My OperaFrance's swine flu epidemic ends-UK government abandons weekly briefings
Friday, January 15, 2010 4:40:46 PM
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Friday, 15th January 2010
A girl has her H1N1 vaccination injected at a community clinic in Washington, DC. Swine flu has killed at least 12,799 people worldwide since it first emerged in Mexico last March, the World Health Organisation said. The Americas continues to report the biggest number of casualties with at least 6,880 deaths while in Europe, at least 2,554 people have died from the (H1N1) virus. Photo: Jewel Samed/AFP.
The swine flu epidemic in mainland France that has killed hundreds has ended, a monitoring group of doctors has said.
"It's the end of the epidemic," Thierry Blanchon, one of the doctors of the Sentinelles flu monitoring network, said.
The number of cases of the fever reported to doctors has "fallen below the epidemic level for the past two weeks," he said. "The virus is certainly still spreading, but at a very weak pace."
He added that vaccinations should continue in order to prevent a resurgence of the A(H1N1) flu virus, which health authorities say has killed 240 people in mainland France.
Meanwhile, the British government abandoned its weekly swine flu briefings in another sign that the crisis has eased dramatically.
New cases in the UK plunged over the past month prompting the Department of Health to abandon its regular media briefing.
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Friday, 15th January 2010
A girl has her H1N1 vaccination injected at a community clinic in Washington, DC. Swine flu has killed at least 12,799 people worldwide since it first emerged in Mexico last March, the World Health Organisation said. The Americas continues to report the biggest number of casualties with at least 6,880 deaths while in Europe, at least 2,554 people have died from the (H1N1) virus. Photo: Jewel Samed/AFP.
The swine flu epidemic in mainland France that has killed hundreds has ended, a monitoring group of doctors has said.
"It's the end of the epidemic," Thierry Blanchon, one of the doctors of the Sentinelles flu monitoring network, said.
The number of cases of the fever reported to doctors has "fallen below the epidemic level for the past two weeks," he said. "The virus is certainly still spreading, but at a very weak pace."
He added that vaccinations should continue in order to prevent a resurgence of the A(H1N1) flu virus, which health authorities say has killed 240 people in mainland France.
Meanwhile, the British government abandoned its weekly swine flu briefings in another sign that the crisis has eased dramatically.
New cases in the UK plunged over the past month prompting the Department of Health to abandon its regular media briefing.
Allied Newspapers Limited
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