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First Casualty

Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 09:58 in department of health, swine flu, francisco duque, spanish influenza, first swine flu death, a(h1n1), influenze pandemic, philippine first casualty of a(h1n1)

The Victim Unofficially, the swine flu pandemic is assumed to have claimed its first Filipino victim since it entered the territorial jurisdiction of the Philippines. A 49 year-old woman supposedly succumbed to the deadly clutches of the dreaded A(H...