South Africa: Swine flu scare as disease hits KZN

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The Health Department has played down fears of a new outbreak of the Novel Influenza A (H1N1) virus ? commonly known as swine flu ? despite at leat 100 cases of it across KwaZulu-Natal.

One woman is thought to have died as a result of the virus after spending several days in isolated care at a Durban hospital.

A well-placed source at the Netcare hospital in Durban, who asked not to be named, said that the woman had tested positive for the H1N1 virus while undergoing treatment for another ailment.

?She contracted the H1N1 strain and sadly she died while she was being treated for it. Her death has been attributed to her underlying pathology but not swine flu, despite testing positive for the virus,? the source said. The woman had cancer.

Netcare spokeswoman Mary Ann Nabbie said that there had been two suspected cases but only one patient had tested positive.

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Re: South Africa: Swine flu scare as disease hits KZN

More than 100 people catchH1N1 flu

Through the monitoring of the different strains of influenza in several strategic clinics of the country, the national Institute for communicable diseases at registered 133 cases of H1N1 flu this year. According to the report by the Institute, the province of KwuZulu-Natal, in the northeast of South Africa is hardest hit. Last month saw a spike in reported cases, says the report. In a clinic in Pietermaritzburg, capital of KwuZulu - Natal, there are more than 100 infections. The H1N1 virus would have been at the origin of the death of a woman at a hospital in Durban, the largest city in KwaZulu-Natal, according to the Sunday Tribune daily, which has rappore there in great effetun number of patients treated for regular flu. But the Department of health of the province has downplayed fears of a new outbreak of bird flu.



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