An article from The Canadian Press, excerpt :
" TORONTO : A new look at last year's flu pandemic finds that two-thirds of hospitalizations for the H1N1 flu were in a five-week period beginning at the end of October.
The study by the Canadian Institute for Health Information says that during those five weeks, H1N1 accounted for 3.4 per cent of hospitalizations across the country.
That was more than the percentage for heart attacks or for strokes.
The institute says that in Ontario, one in four emergency visits during October and November 2009 were by patients with flu-like symptoms — compared to about one in seven in previous years.
Overall, the study finds there were more than 15,000 confirmed and probable H1N1 hospitalizations from April to December — about 6,500 more patients than the number of lab-confirmed hospitalized cases previously reported."
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