Swine Flu Watch: Mt Sinai nursery shut down; Remote Aborgine population infected
>>Swine flu shuts down nursery at Mt. Sinai hospital
No newborn babies have been infected with swine flu but a nursery at Mount Sinai Hospital has been closed after somebody who was in contact with the unit was confirmed to have a minor case of the H1N1 virus.
“I can tell you at the moment no babies have been infected, but obviously there’s a time period after exposure so the investigation is going to go on,” Dr. Alison McGeer, director of infection control at Mount Sinai Hospital, said.
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>>Mystery Aborigine swine flu death
Officials in Australia are trying to determine how an Aboriginal man caught and then died from swine flu.
The 26-year-old man became Australia’s first person to die after testing positive for the virus.
He had been living in Kiwirrkurra, one of the country’s most remote Outback communities.
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In the past week the number of confirmed cases doubled in the Northern Territory, where Aborigines make up almost one-third of the population.
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