Two children and a man died in Britain on Monday after contracting swine flu although all had pre-existing health conditions, officials said.
Two children and a man died in Britain on Monday after contracting swine flu although all had pre-existing health conditions, officials said.
The deaths of a man and a child from West Yorkshire in northern England and a nine-year-old child from London took the death toll from the virus in Britain to seven.
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England's chief medical officer has said people with breathing problems and obese people are at high risk.
Health officials said they could not confirm whether swine flu or the pre-existing condition was the cause of death in either case in West Yorkshire.
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In London, the National Health Service (NHS) said the nine-year-old child, whose gender was not identified, also had "serious underlying health problems".
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Health officials have abandoned efforts to contain the virus, given the high number of cases, and have switched to focusing on treating infected people who fall into a high-risk group.
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Britain already has Europe's highest number of reported cases with nearly 7,500.
Latest figures released on Monday by the World Health Organization showed that swine flu had now affected almost 95,000 people in more than 130 countries and territories.
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