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Flu Outbreak Becomes Epidemic in USA

Influenza has officially reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with 7.3 percent of deaths last week caused by pneumonia and the flu, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.

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The whooping cough epidemic in the USA is now the worst in half a century with about 18 000 cases.

 

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A new report concerning the 2009 swine flu epidemic suggests that more than 500 000 people may have died globally from swine flu due to under-reporting, which is more than 15 times the official number of laboratory confirmed deaths.