UK reports first swine flu death- Jamaica Observer
‘UK reports first swine flu death
AP
Monday, June 15, 2009
LONDON, England (AP) – Officials say a person has died of swine flu at a hospital in Scotland in the first death from the illness reported in Britain.
It also is the first death from the H5N1 strain of influenza reported outside the Americas’ ……….
The information above was taken from a story reported in the Jamaica Observer today, Monday June 15, 2009. Someone got the name wrong as reference is made of the ‘H5N1′ which I believe is the ‘Bird Flu’ and not ‘Swine Flu’ as reported in the story. Making this type of mistake was inevitable as despite the fact that the ‘Swine Flu’ was officially renamed to H1N1, news organizations kept referring back to the ‘Swine Flu’ thus placing less emphasis on the new name.
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