US tops 1,000 swine flu deaths, millions of cases: official
US tops 1,000 swine flu deaths, millions of cases: official
(AFP)
WASHINGTON — "The United States has seen "many millions of cases" of swine flu and more than 1,000 deaths -- or around a fifth of the world's total -- since the H1N1 outbreak began six months ago, a top health official said Friday. "We have seen, since the beginning of the pandemic in April and May, more than 1,000 deaths from pandemic influenza and more than 20,000 hospitalizations in this country," Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told a weekly news briefing. "We have had, up until now, many millions of cases of pandemic influenza in the US, and the numbers continue to increase," Frieden said, lamenting the scarcity of H1N1 vaccine."
http://tinyurl.com/ykv6rq9_________________