Alert: Swine Flu Rapidly Spreading In Asia – WHO Report

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Despite a deceleration in the number of swine flu cases in several countries in the southern hemisphere, Asian countries are experiencing a rapid spread of the virus.Latest figures released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday showed that the new A/H1N1 virus has infected some 177,457 individuals and claimed the lives of some 1,462 others worldwide.

The report stated a decline in the number of infected cases in countries such as Argentina, Chile, Australia and New Zealand as winter near sits end in the Southern Hemisphere’s, adding that this was a start for the second wave of the virus in northern countries.

According to the report Thailand, India and Vietnam are among the countries which have been strongly hit by the disease in the past days.

In India, officials have reported a total of 959 cases of swine flu and eight deaths since May 15, when the first case was identified in the extremely populated country.

Governments Stockpile H1N1 Pandemic Body Bags

Dave Feschuk
Toronto Star

As concerns grow of a possible flu pandemic onslaught this autumn, alert authorities worldwide have been stockpiling emergency supplies. Masks, gloves and anti-viral medications are on the list. And body bags!

Demand for the latter is prompting a surge of interest in the wares of a small Toronto custom bag manufacturer named Trevor Owen Ltd. Inquiries about its pandemic body bags are pouring in from as far away as the Sultanate of Oman on the Arabian Peninsula.

TREVOR OWEN recently shipped several thousand of the thick plastic bags – sewn in its Scarborough factory and touted for their ability to “prevent leakage and seepage of bodily fluids” – to Alberta. It is bidding on a contract to supply Ohio with 12,500 of the white woven polyethylene pandemic bags.

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