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TWO CHINESE WOMEN have died from the H1N1 influenza strain (swine flu) in Beijing over the past 10 days, Chinese media has reported.
The deaths of the 65-year-old cancer patient and the 22-year-old migrant worker mark the first fatalities from the virus in the capital since 2010, Reuters reports.
Beijing’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that flu cases are at their highest levels in the past five years, with the H1N1 strain becoming the most dominant.
Meanwhile, H1N1 killed a 26-year-old Jordanian man on Sunday, Health Minister Abdullatif Wreikat confirmed. The 26-year-old died in hospital today in Irbid, in northern Jordan.
“He was taken to the Princess Basma (public) Hospital three days ago suffering from severe pneumonia. Medical tests showed H1N1 infection, which led to the man’s death.”
H1N1 influenza has killed 25 people in Jordan in recent years.
In 2009, an H1N1 epidemic erupted in Mexico and spread into a worldwide pandemic that caused at least 17,000 deaths.
In 1997, the H5N1 strain of influenza, commonly known as bird flu, broke out in Hong Kong.
Spreading from live birds to humans through direct contact, it causes fever and breathing problems and claimed 359 human lives in 15 countries, mainly in Asia and Africa, from 2003 to August of this year, according to the World Health Organisation.
Additional reporting by - © AFP, 2012
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I kinda wish the Robot was fitted with pepper spray.
Kinda,, o man I wish. Little brats.
Human on robot violence is a relatively new phenomenon.
It depends on what you call a robot because the Luddites were pretty violent on what technically were robots
Some people shoot drones out of the sky
Thank god it’s not one of DOB’s robots or his lawyers would have sent the kids an angry letter.
Kinda sums up present world society pretty well.
There parents should have given them hammers. That thing will probably do them all out of a job in the future.
He’ll get them back when he gets his aerial drone upgrade.
Chappie ?
Because human empathy is dying off. Have you seen the violence in some of the computer games and cartoons? Tom and Jerry? Hit people you don’t like with anything available. Your hands included. What a wonderful world.
Please, tell me more about this pre-video game/cartoon world where human empathy was so much more prevalent, there was no violence and it rained jelly babies.
Don’t forget Itchy and Scratchy!
Jelly babies were originally marketed as unwanted babies
While I agree that some video games are far too violent, to lump Tom & Jerry into this is just crazy.
Haha, it’s really not that crazy! The original Tom & Jerry’s that they show on Boomerang are ridiculously violent, especially when you consider the target age groups.
LOL!
The ring a ring a rosie thing on 25 seconds is hilarious.
Kids are mad.
Those kids have cleverly preempted Skynet.
frag out!!
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