Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Three more dead of H1N1 as severe cases soar in B.C.

The H1N1 flu pandemic has killed three more B.C. residents in the past week, two of them in the Fraser Health region and the third in the B.C. Interior.

The provincial death toll due to swine flu now stands at 12 lab-confirmed cases. All of the victims, except a 26-year-old Mission mother, had underlying medical conditions.

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control also reported 88 new severe cases of swine flu requiring hospitalization in the past week – 43 in Fraser Health, 29 in Vancouver Coastal, 11 in the Interior (where the third death this week occurred), four on Vancouver Island and one in the Northern Health region.

That's a 79 per cent jump in the last week, bringing the total number of severe H1N1 cases up to 199 in B.C. since the new flu virus arrived here last spring.


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