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Winter flu death toll topped 600
Winter flu death toll topped 600
By Nick Triggle Health Correspondent, BBC News
The Flu Season
Last winter’s flu outbreak claimed 602 lives in the UK, with more than 70% of the deaths among 15- to 64-year-olds, Health Protection Agency figures show.
Flu normally hits older people, but last winter it acted differently as the main strain was swine flu, which the elderly have some resistance to.
The HPA figures also show just 50% of under-65s in at-risk groups in England and Wales were immunised against flu.
Officials said the vaccination uptake figures were “very concerning”.
Highlighting potentially fatal rare disease – HPP
Norwich mum tells of heartbreak at toddler’s rare condition
Kate Scotter Monday, May 16, 2011
6:30 AM
A Norwich mum has spoken of her heartache after discovering her son had a potentially fatal rare syndrome – and that she carried its genes.
Two-year-old Preston Quinton looks like a happy little toddler with his curly brown hair and toothless smile. But he has already had to undergo two major head operations and doctors currently do not know if he will be able to run, walk or jump later in life.
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