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Swine Flu Declining in North |
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By news
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Monday, 07 December 2009 |
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The swine flu epidemic is
declining in northern Finland and has reached its peak in other parts of the
county, according to leading medical officials.
RTE has claimed that the number of
patients in hospitals in northern Ostrobothnia have decreased by one third since
the height of the outbreak in November. So far, seventeen people have died of
swine flu in Finland, almost all of them having some kind of underlying health
problem.
The north of the country was hit first
as the epidemic spread quickly through Lapland leading to the quarantining of
conscripts at a barracks in Sodankyla and a number of deaths in Rovaniemi
hospital. In addition, 26 year-old woman died of the illness in Oulu University
Hospital and an eight year-old girl passed away in Tornio, on the
Finnish-Swedish border.
Vaccinations against swine flu are
continuing in the city. At the moment, younger school children are being
inoculated against the H1N1 strain.
One Oulu mother, 29, whose baby-boy
developed swine flu just days after receiving the injection was very shocked by
the reaction.
‘It was awful. He was actually
struggling to breathe,’ she told 65DN.
However, many people will have
experienced the infection with relatively mild symptoms, to the extent of not
even knowing that they have contracted it.
Medical experts claim that there is
likely to be yet another wave of swine flu in the spring.
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