10 cases of AH1N1 in the United Kingdom

• April 27, 2024

The Influenza AH1N1 has returned this year, and the United Kingdom already counts 10 deaths in the last 6 weeks, due to this human influenza virus, the agency reported Reuters.

The victims of the condition are adults under 65, who already had health problems. "In recent weeks we have seen an increase in the number of cases ofseasonal flu and AH1N1 "Declared the professor John Watson , head of the department of respiratory diseases of Britain's Health Protection Agency .

Watson said that the institution received reports of patients with serious complications that required hospitalization, as well as outbreaks of flu in schools.

The spokesman of the HPA noted that if reports of influenza cases have increased around the European country, however this is expected to happen in the winter months, so it is not unusual.

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