Swine flu death toll increases to 14,000
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January 16, 2010, Saturday
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THE H1N1 flu virus is spreading most actively in North Africa, South Asia and parts of Europe, the World Health Organization said yesterday.
Raising its official global death toll from the pandemic to nearly 14,000, the WHO also said that while India's infections may have peaked in December, neighboring Nepal and Sri Lanka were still experiencing widespread transmission.
Morocco, Algeria and Egypt are continuing to see the active spread of H1N1 and some countries in Europe, including Romania, Ukraine, Turkey and Switzerland, are also reporting moderately intense rates of respiratory disease, the United Nations agency said.
Its latest update on swine flu also noted that seasonal flu viruses have been largely overshadowed by the pandemic strain in the northern hemisphere winter this year.
"Pandemic H1N1 2009 virus continues to be the predominant circulating influenza virus in the European region with only sporadic detections of seasonal influenza viruses," it said, concluding the same for northern Africa and swathes of Asia, including China.
The WHO said flu activity in Japan, China and Mongolia has been declining since November. In North Korea, "geographically regional influenza activity with increasing respiratory diseases trend was reported during early January 2010," it said.
In the Americas, where the virus was first identified last April, infection rates have declined since October although small areas of increased flu activity "may be occurring in central and northern Mexico," the WHO said.
Raising its official global death toll from the pandemic to nearly 14,000, the WHO also said that while India's infections may have peaked in December, neighboring Nepal and Sri Lanka were still experiencing widespread transmission.
Morocco, Algeria and Egypt are continuing to see the active spread of H1N1 and some countries in Europe, including Romania, Ukraine, Turkey and Switzerland, are also reporting moderately intense rates of respiratory disease, the United Nations agency said.
Its latest update on swine flu also noted that seasonal flu viruses have been largely overshadowed by the pandemic strain in the northern hemisphere winter this year.
"Pandemic H1N1 2009 virus continues to be the predominant circulating influenza virus in the European region with only sporadic detections of seasonal influenza viruses," it said, concluding the same for northern Africa and swathes of Asia, including China.
The WHO said flu activity in Japan, China and Mongolia has been declining since November. In North Korea, "geographically regional influenza activity with increasing respiratory diseases trend was reported during early January 2010," it said.
In the Americas, where the virus was first identified last April, infection rates have declined since October although small areas of increased flu activity "may be occurring in central and northern Mexico," the WHO said.
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