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Swine flu death toll now six ‘and rising’
Get your masks people.. it’s going to get messy
South Africa's swine flu caseload has increased fourfold since the country's first case was reported on June 14.
First Swine Flu Death Reported In South Africa
Ruan Muller, a 22-year-old student at Stellenbosch University near Cape Town, becomes the first fatality due to swine flu in sub-Saharan Africa. 28/07/2009
South Africa Reports Second Swine Flu Death in Bloemfontein
The 15-year-old teenager was admitted to Pelonomi Hospital with pneumonia symptoms but the health department confirmed he died of the N1H1 virus. 1/08/2009
South Africa's Third Victim of Swine Flu Reported in the Western Cape.
A Western Cape man, Johann Hack, collapsed at home and was declared dead on Tuesday morning at Vergelegen Medi-Clinic hospital in Somerset West. 4/08/2009
SA's Fourth Swine Flu Victim
A 23-year-old woman, believed to be seven months' pregnant, died at the Addington Hospital in Durban on Wednesday 12/08/2009.
SA Records Fifth Swine Flu Death
A second pregnant woman has died from swine flu, the national Health Department said on Sunday. the 27-year-old Eastern Cape woman's death brought the number of the H1N1 deaths to five in the country. 16/08/2009.
SA's H1N1 Toll Reaches 6
South Africa now has six confirmed swine flu deaths. A 64-year old diabetic woman, the third person in the Western Cape, has died at Tygerberg Hospital of the A(H1N1) virus. 16/08/2009
First Gauteng Swine Flu Victim, and Seventh in the Country
Earlier on Thursday, the institute confirmed that the virus was the cause of death of a 21-year-old Pretoria woman 19/08/2009
Eighth Swine Flu Death Confirmed
The 38-year-old woman, who was in her third trimester of pregnancy, died at Dora Nzinga Hospital in Port Elizabeth. 20/08/2009
Swine Flu Toll Rises to 9 - UPDATE
NINE South Africans have died of swine flu since the disease broke out in the country on June 18.
An unidentified person believed to have contracted swine flu died at the weekend.
The last confirmed swine flu death was that of a 53-year-old man from Randfontein, on the West Rand, on August 14
Track the rapid spread of swine flu in South Africa with News24.
I have been following the epidemic since its first outbreak. What first looked to be some ominous signs of a doomsday scenario, is now uncomfortably close to home, just around the corner.
How often is that the stuff of science-fiction becomes science-fact: Greg Bear writes in his Nebula award-winning novel Darwin’s Radio, “the next great war will start inside us.” In the next stage of evolution, mankind is history. Is it really like Nietzsche believed: “The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.”
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