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Swine flu claims first casualty in Bulgaria

Wed, Sep 30 2009 16:12 CET

byNick Iliev

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Swine flu claims first casualty in Bulgaria

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Bulgaria's Health Ministry confirmed on September 30 2009 the first fatality related to the H1N1 strain in the country.

The 30-year-old man died in Lozenets hospital. He was diagnosed with the first symptoms on September 19 in the town of Samokov and was hospitalised on September 23 in a local hospital. He was transferred to Lozenets Hospital in Sofia on September 25.

Before his death, the man was in close contact with five other individuals, of which one has been positively diagnosed as a carrier of the H1N1 strain and has been hospitalised in the St Anna Hospital. The other four have not displayed any symptoms, but continue to remain under observation, Dnevnik daily said.

According to Health Ministry data, there are 78 people in the country diagnosed with the strain, but the number of people affected is feared to be substantially higher, as is the case elsewhere around the world.

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Anonymous vanko Wed, Oct 07 2009 14:07 CET
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No need to be rude rrr. I think the points being made by "me" were very pertinent if not written using correct grammar. You are obviously American - period in English means something completely different and some might not understand you!! perhaps you approve of Baxter labs and what they get up to. Conspiracy theory??? Here's one for you - according to Dr Mercola they patented a vaccine for h1n1 a whole year before anyone new anything about it. Check out the patent. It's dated!!! Conspiracy sure on the part of Big Pharmas

Anonymous rrr Sun, Oct 04 2009 17:29 CET
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Try using some punctuation, like commas and periods. Proper grammar may make you sound less of a conspiracy wacko...

Anonymous me Wed, Sep 30 2009 21:43 CET
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well you know these vaccines are very expensive and big pharma expects a lot of money for a vaccine that isn’t tested properly my information is that the Tami flu for instance only delays the symptoms for one day and in 1974 there was another so called outbreak of the dreaded swine flu in America and thousands of people are now suing the government for neglect and miss information as the 26 000 victims of an unnecessary neurological disease as a direct result of the vaccination are claiming so don’t be so quick to join the queue for the jab [...]

 Read the full comment because in 1974 only one person died as a result of the flu did you know 100 000 people in the world die of normal seasonal flu every year are you good at math’s and are you a thinker are you a sheep I hope you think before you hold out your arm it could save your life or at leased your health


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