19 patients have now recovered from swine flu
There were no new cases of people with the A (A1N1) swine flu virus on Sunday. However, there were two new cases on Saturday evening – one is a two-year-old boy and the other a 22-year-old woman who returned from Belgium.
One more person has recovered from the swine flu virus and is no longer in quarantine. The number of cured patients has gone up to 19.There are still another 58 patients still undergoing treatment.
There are no patients currently in hospital with the swine flu virus. All diagnosed cases are doing well and responding to treatment.
The AH1N1 virus is not transmitted by eating pork products but people get infected from other people. Therefore the precautions taken for other types of influenza must be taken also in this case. For more information read the World Health Organisation’s information here:
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/frequently_asked_questions/en/
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