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Afghan swine flu toll rises to eight: ministry
Afghanistan?s death toll from swine flu has jumped to eight, the health ministry said yesterday, just four days after reporting the country?s first fatality from the virus.
Nearly 730 people are infected with the (A)H1N1 virus, public health ministry spokesman Ahmad Farid Rahid told AFP, adding that more than 270 of them were foreigners. These include soldiers based in the country to help the government fight an insurgency. ?Out of that figure we have eight death cases. Eight people have died from swine flu? over 10 days, he said. The spokesman warned the pandemic could infect more people as ?we don?t yet have the vaccine.?
Afghan swine flu toll rises to eight: ministry
Afghanistan?s death toll from swine flu has jumped to eight, the health ministry said yesterday, just four days after reporting the country?s first fatality from the virus.
Nearly 730 people are infected with the (A)H1N1 virus, public health ministry spokesman Ahmad Farid Rahid told AFP, adding that more than 270 of them were foreigners. These include soldiers based in the country to help the government fight an insurgency. ?Out of that figure we have eight death cases. Eight people have died from swine flu? over 10 days, he said. The spokesman warned the pandemic could infect more people as ?we don?t yet have the vaccine.?