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Flu Spreads, Kills US Man

Australia, Japan see cases

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted May 10, 2009 7:30 AM CDT
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(Newser) – Health officials have confimed that a 30-year-old Washington state man died last week of the H1N1 flu strain, raising its US death toll to  three, Reuters reports. He had suffered from heart problems. The disease has now been found in some 2,200 Americans and has spread to Japan and Australia. The new flu could mix with other flu strains as flu season begins in the southern hemisphere, warned health officials.

“One of the big challenges with influenza viruses is the way that they change, the way they combine and their prevalence in a number of species,” said a CDC expert. “This is why it is so important for countries to have a strong capacity to deal with influenza."

A nurse prepares a sample that was taken from a passenger who arrived from the US with fly symptoms in Auckland, New Zealand, last month.
A nurse prepares a sample that was taken from a passenger who arrived from the US with fly symptoms in Auckland, New Zealand, last month.   (AP Photo / Greg Bowker, New Zealand Herald)
Quarantine officials make their way to board a commercial plane to check passengers in Narita, east of Tokyo, Japan, today.
Quarantine officials make their way to board a commercial plane to check passengers in Narita, east of Tokyo, Japan, today.   (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire is interviewed last month. State health officials say a man in his 30s is the first person in the state to die from what appears to be complications of swine flu.
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire is interviewed last month. State health officials say a man in his 30s is the first person in the state to die from what appears to be complications of swine flu.   (AP Photo/John Froschauer, file)
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COMMENTS
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Robert_Dada
May 11, 2009 10:17 AM CDT
The virulent disease IS the masses.
kokuaguy
May 10, 2009 5:05 AM CDT
That's what Jeremiah Wright wants to know.

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