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Two patients critically ill with swine flu in Hong Kong
Feb 4, 2011, 2:41 GMT
Hong Kong - Two more patients were critically ill with swine flu in Hong Kong, health officials said Friday as the virus continued to spread in the densely-populated city.
A 65-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman were both in intensive care after being diagnosed with the H1N1 virus since Saturday, a statement from the city's Hospital Authority said.
At least two people have died and 27 others, including the two new patients, have been admitted to intensive care units in Hong Kong with the virus this winter.
Eighty people died of swine flu in Hong Kong during the 2009 global outbreak during which the city bought 3 million doses of swine flu vaccine. Some 2.8 million unused doses were later dumped.
Six Hong Kong residents died in the first modern outbreak of human bird flu in 1997. Another 299 Hong Kong people died in the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome or SARS.
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