The New England Journal of Medicine has just published two papers about swine flu in USa, Australia and New Zealand. They discuss if specific groups of people were more involved and more likely to be hospitalized. The results say that people "with underlying medical conditions", were young, of minoritu groups have an increased risk.
There isn't any study in Italy yet, but according to the Minister of Health many deaths have occured in the Campania region. Actually, 23 out of 58 fatal cases of swine flu occured there. There's no explanation of this, maybe it's bad luck. Again, according to the official datas, almost all the people who died, 55 out of 58, were in the at-risk group. Nothing is said about foreign people. After a rough estimate of Ansa datas, it seems that 10% of all the deaths occured among them, a figure that fits in with the % of foreign population in Italy (6,5%).
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18 Nov 2009
15 Nov 2009
Campania hit by swine flu
According to the Ministry of Health, the fatal cases of swine flu are 53. Fifty people were in the risk group.Very few people have been vaccinated, only 150,000 people out of 3,000,000 avalaible doses. The websites of many newspapers aren't covering the pandemic in the front page any more, apart from ilmattino.it, newspaper of Campania region, where occured 23 deaths. Meanwhile, the flu articles are in the top 20 news of GoogleNews.
The press release of the government has also announced that 40 million of antiviral drugs doses are avaiable, but this issue is not currently debated.
The press release of the government has also announced that 40 million of antiviral drugs doses are avaiable, but this issue is not currently debated.
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