Government abandons swine flu briefings as crisis eases
» By chopstick | the 01-14-2010 at 09:41 | 27 views (16 unique) | 1 comment | Report post!
New cases in Britain plunged over the past month prompting the Department of Health to abandon its regular media briefing. The move comes after it emerged that stockpiles of unused vaccine could be given away. It was announced last week that there were fewer than 5,000 new cases of the disease over the previous seven days, down from an estimated 9,000 a week in mid-December.

The figures

showed 360 people have died after contracting the disease in the UK, including 251 in England, 28 in Wales, 64 in Scotland and 17 in Northern Ireland. In July last year figures used to plan NHS services predicted that the virus would kill up to 65,000 people in the UK.


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Nothing2Say
Nothing2Say
the 01-14-2010 at 10:03
Maybe the cold snap is killing off the virus.

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