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LONDON: Nine-year-old child with swine flu dies
3:59pm Monday 6th July 2009 in
A NINE-YEAR-OLD child is the second person in London to die after contracting swine flu.
The child, from south London, had "serious underlying health problems", according to a spokesman for NHS London.
It brings the total number of deaths of people with swine flu in the UK to five.
London, along with the West Midlands, is a swine flu hotspot.
The child is the second person in the capital to die after a 19-year-old man from Lewisham and also with serious underlying health problems, died last week.
A further three people with swine flu have died in the UK and all had underlying health problems.
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adnama
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7:06pm Mon 6 Jul 09
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Lukeyboy says...
4:08pm Mon 6 Jul 09
Perhaps it was the straw that broke the camels back and we shouldnt make as big a deal about swine flu as reported in the media. I havent heard of anyone normal catching this and dying yet...although i might be wrong.
Saying that, my sympathy goes to the poor young girl and her family.