| ■ US swine flu deaths jump by 51 to total 353 | 2090.08.01 |
| WASHINGTON (AFP) - Fifty-one more swine flu-related US deaths were reported in the United States over the previous week, bringing the toll to 353 in the country worst affected by the global pandemic. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the new figures in its weekly surveillance update Friday, which also said that 5,514 people have required hospitalization for the A (H1N1) virus. The CDC also announced in its Friday report that it was no longer publishing the individual confirmed and probable cases, or its aggregate total of cases from the 5O US states, its territories and the capital Washington. "CDC will report the total number of hospitalizations and deaths weekly, and continue to use its traditional surveillance systems to track the progress of the novel H1N1 flu outbreak," the center said on its website. |