MINNEAPOLIS, Jul 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Minnesota health officials
confirmed Wednesday afternoon two deaths in the Twin Cities area were attributed
to swine flu.
The health officials told the Minneapolis Star Tribune one was an elderly person
who had "underlying medical problems" and had been hospitalized. The second was
a child with "an extensive bacterial infection" in addition to the H1N1 virus.
These deaths bring to three the number of swine flu deaths in Minnesota, the
health officials said in a release.
The latest statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control, for the week
ending June 27, revealed the number of diagnosed cases of the flu in the United
States had decreased from the previous week. The World Health Organization said
as of Monday there were 429 confirmed swine flu deaths worldwide, including 170
in the United States.
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