WHO declares first 21st century flu pandemic on Thursday, June 11, 2009. The first since 1968!

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Health Dept. tests 2 more for flu virus

MANILA, Philippines -- The Department of Health (DoH) has identified two new suspected cases of Influenza A(H1N1), both of whom arrived last May 8 from Japan, which is in the middle of a community outbreak.

The DoH said the two new cases -- a five-year-old foreign boy and a 42-year-old man of yet unknown nationality -- were placed in private hospitals in the Central Visayas region.

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