{"id":19615,"date":"2015-12-11T16:37:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/society\/19615-iran-swine-flu-kills-at-least-54-people"},"modified":"2023-01-15T22:17:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T21:17:59","slug":"iran-swine-flu-kills-at-least-54-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/society\/iran-swine-flu-kills-at-least-54-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Swine flu kills at least 54 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"swine-flu-300\" class=\" size-full wp-image-44991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/swine-flu-300.jpg\" alt=\"swine-flu-300\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The outbreak of swine flu in Iran has killed at least 54 people so far in the country over the past month, according to the official figures.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press cited the Iranian regime health minister, Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi as saying that 33 of the deaths from the H1N1 virus occurred in southeastern Kerman province.<\/p>\n<p>Hashemi says 600 people who contracted the virus there have been hospitalized, but that the outbreak is now under control.<br \/>He says other fatalities occurred in southeastern and southwestern Iran and one person died in Karaj, 30 kilometers (18 miles) west of the capital, Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, swine flu claimed at least 89 lives in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The 2009 H1N1 outbreak started a global pandemic that killed as many as half a million people. 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