" The pandemic of H1N1 swine flu raised the death rate among children across Europe late last year but not adults, researchers reported on Thursday.
Early reports showed about a 28 percent rise in deaths among children aged 5 to 14 in eight countries, Anne Mazick of the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark and colleagues found.
This added up to about 77 deaths above what would normally be seen in that age group in those months, they reported in the online journal Eurosurveillance at http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19480."
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