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Only a week after the World Health Organization declared the new influenza H1N1 pandemic on June 11, Bangladesh detected the first case of infection on June 18.
The virus is contagious, spreading easily from one person to another, and from one country to another, and it has only been a matter of time before the first case was detected in Bangladesh. While common seasonal flu kills more than 250,000 to 500,000 people each year, new strains of the disease such as the one driving the current pandemic H1N1 2009 outbreak can be especially dangerous because people lack natural immunity and a vaccine can take months to develop. The current outbreak, which originated in Mexico, has infected 44,287 people in 94 countries since its emergence and killed 180 people, according to the most recent update from WHO.
Posted on: 21 June 2009
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