ALEISHA TISSEN JOHANNESBURG - South Africa’s swine flu tally has been raised to 11. Yesterday, reports of two women in Worcester surfaced with another confirmed case of a 27-year-old woman from Johannesburg. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has said there are 11 laboratory-confirmed cases of swine flu in South Africa but said to date there was no evidence of community transmission. National health spokesman Fidel Hadebe was unable to comment on the two women but said the 27-year-old had recently travelled to...
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