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At least 22,444 cases. At least 270 people have died.
At least 178 have died in England:
- East of England (11): a doctor in Bedfordshire; a man in Essex; an 8 year old girl in Norwich.
- London (50): a 19 year old man; a 9 year old girl; another child; a 80 year old man; a 70 year old man; a 39 year old pregnant woman; a 6 year old girl; an 8 year old girl (St Thomas' Hospital); a man (St Thomas' Hospital); a person (Newham General Hospital); a woman (Northwick Park hospital).
- North East England (7): a 67 year old man from Westoe, South Shields.
- North West England (21): a 31 year old pregnant woman in Lancashire.
- South East England (2): a 5 year old boy in Buckinghamshire; an 18 year old woman in Hampshire.
- West Midlands (31): a 6 year old girl in Birmingham.
- Yorkshire (21): a 42 year old man in Dewsbury; a 9 year old girl in Dewsbury.
a 30 year old man (a British soldier)
54 have died in Scotland:
- Ayrshire (3): an adult; a child.
- the Borders (2): a 58 year old woman from the Borders; an adult from the Borders;
- Fife (5): a 81 year old woman; a 53 year old man; a 59 year old woman; a 47 year old woman; an adult.
- Forth Valley area (1): a 62 year old woman.
- Glasgow (12): 38 year old pregnant woman; a 15 year old girl; a 26 year old man; a 42 year old man; a 48 year old man; a 16 year old boy; a 77 year old man; a 54 year old woman; a 50 year old woman; an adult; a child.
- Grampian (1): a 75 year old man.
- Inverclyde area (1): a 73 year old man.
- Inverness (1): a woman.
- Islay (1): a 59 year old woman.
- Lanarkshire (1): an adult.
- Paisley (1): an 81 year old woman.
a 52 year old man; a 17 year old pregnant girl.
23 people have died in Wales: a 55 year old woman from Caerphilly County Borough; a 43 year old woman from Llanelli (Carmarthenshire); a 55 year old man from Llanellim (Carmarthenshire); a 21 year old pregnant woman from Monmouthshire; a 29 year old man from Llysfaen, Colwyn Bay.
13 people have died in Northern Ireland: a woman; a baby; a child; a 12 year old boy.
Health Protection Agency (2009) Epidemiology of new influenza A (H1N1) virus infection, United Kingdom, April-June 2009. 14: pii: 19232.
Health Protection Agency (2009) Preliminary descriptive epidemiology of a large school outbreak of influenza A(H1N1)v in the West Midlands, United Kingdom, May 2009. 14: pii: 19264
Sharkey et al. (2008) Epidemiological consequences of an incursion of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza into the British poultry flock. Proc Biol Sci. 275:19-28
Irvine et al. (2007) Outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza caused by Asian lineage H5N1 virus in turkeys in Great Britain in January 2007. Vet. Rec. 161:100-101
Death toll from swine flu doubles in month as virus kills two more
News.Scotsman, October 26, 2009
Swine flu research fast-tracked
Times Online, August 25, 2009
Are we due another lethal global flu pandemic?
icWales, March 10, 2008