A patient on Vancouver Island has died from Swine Flu. This is the sixth official fatality in B.C. Canada now reports a total of 78 deaths. 52 people in B.C. have gone to hospital, with 22 in ICU.
The FDA has approved four Swine Flu vaccines and shipment should start in under four weeks.
A dire scenario has been painted over the Swine Flu pandemic by a team of advisors to President Obama: 90,000 dead, 1.8 million in hospitals. Read the report highlights.
360 new cases of swine flu in just three days at Washington State University. CDC reports 196 additional U.S. deaths between Aug. 30 and Sept. 5 from flu and pneumonia.
(Update 2 – Sept. 11) More than 14 students at St. George’s private school are being given the anti-viral medication Tamiflu. The school has had a Swine Flu outbreak but it is not clear if the boys have been tested for H1N1.
Trial testing of Swine Flu vaccine in pregnant women to start this week.
At least 2,837 people have died worldwide from the novel Swine Flu virus. The U.S. reports 593 deaths and 9,079 hospitalizations.
A seven-month pregnant Brazilian teenager is the first to die from Swine Flu in the state of Roraima.
All U.S. military personnel will be mandatorily vaccinated against Swine Flu starting in October, according to the DOD.
Swine Flu has killed 522 in the U.S. while Canada reports 71 fatalities. Brazil says 368 people have died from the virus.
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