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Three swine-flu deaths raise winter toll in Hong Kong to nine
Feb 8, 2011, 4:42 GMT
Hong Kong - Three more patients have died of swine flu in Hong Kong, bringing the number of human deaths from the virus this winter to nine in the densely populated city, health officials said Tuesday.
The Hospital Authority confirmed that a 21-year-old woman and two men, 53 and 62, had died of swine flu since the weekend.
Tests were also being conducted Tuesday on a 7-year-old girl who died shortly after being admitted to a hospital Monday with flu symptoms.
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. About 2.8 million unused doses were later dumped.
In 1997, six Hong Kong residents died in the first modern outbreak of bird flu. Another 299 Hong Kong people died in 2003 from severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
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