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Portugal’s Director-General of Health, Francisco George, has warned that the country can no longer expect to suffer no deaths from the H1N1 flu virus. He was initially reported as having

By LIZ GRIFFITHS liz.griffiths@mmspublishing.com Anglican churches in the Algarve say they have no plans to follow the Catholic Church’s decision to take extra precautionary measures during services as a result

By ELOÏSE WALTON eloise.walton@algarveresident.com Influenza A, or swine flu, is not a cause for alarm and should be treated like any other form of flu, according to a medical expert

By CHRIS GRAEME chris.graeme@algarveresident.com Twenty students from the Lisbon private college Salesianos have been diagnosed with H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) in Oxford, UK. The outbreak among the group of children

Another case of the potentially deadly Swine Flu was registered in Portugal over the weekend. It brings the total number of cases of Influenza Virus A (H1N1) on mainland Portugal

By DAISY SAMPSON daisy.sampson@algarveresident.com Businesses in the Algarve should be prepared to see between five and 20 per cent of their workforce unable to come to work as a result

The second case of H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, in Portugal was confirmed on Monday by Portugal’s minister of health, Ana Jorge. According to the minister, a 33-year

An 82-year-old man in an isolation room at Porto’s Hospital São João is unlikely to be suffering from swine flu. The pensioner had returned from holidaying in the United States

By CHRIS GRAEME chris.graeme@algarveresident.com A top medical specialist has warned that Portugal could have three million cases of swine fever and 75,000 deaths by the autumn if a vaccine isn’t

Reports of the first cases of swine flu in Portugal have been denied by the Portuguese ministry of health. Suggestions in the Portuguese media claiming that swine flu had been