Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:20:03 +0800
Two women die from H1N1 flu in Beijing
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Two women have died from the
H1N1 flu strain in Beijing in
the past 10 days, state media said on Sunday,
the first reported deaths from
the virus in the capital
since 2010.
A 65-year-old
cancer patient died on Friday
and a 22-year-old migrant
worker died on December 27,
the Beijing Daily said on its
website, citing the city's
Centre for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Flu cases in
Beijing are at their highest
level in five years and the
H1N1 strain has become the
most dominant, the centre's
director Deng Ying said.
The rise in cases corresponds
with weeks of record low
temperatures in Beijing and
across much of China.
H1N1 is
a swine flu virus responsible
for a pandemic that broke out
in 2009, starting in the
United States and Mexico and
spreading around the world in
six weeks.
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