Swine flu cases in Finland

Two Finnish schoolchildren have contracted swine flu. Riitta Lehtonen, Communications Chief of the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusima, confirmed the new cases of the H1N1 virus on Sunday.

The patients are children showing mild symptoms of the virus. They have now left hospital. The family returned home from the United States on Saturday.

Seven cases of the virus have now been confirmed in Finland. Not a known case in Åland yet and we at Habari Newsletter and Habari 1 appeals to medical authorities to provide preventive information to the public as WHO last week declared H1N1 deadliest virus.

Onyango Okeyo