Flu hits Canada's native peoples
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Canada is investigating whether Inuit communities may be particularly badly hit by swine flu, health officials say.
The World Health Organization thinks there are more cases than expected among young people in the aboriginal population living in northern Canada.
Recent days have seen a spike in H1N1 flu among the Inuit and the country's isolated indigenous communities.
The swine flu virus can have more serious effects on people living in poverty, the WHO says.
Of fewer than 100 people infected in Nunavut, the vast Arctic homeland of Inuits, 10 were admitted to hospital.
In Manitoba province, 16 of the 24 people in intensive care because of swine flu are from native communities.
The World Health Organization thinks there are more cases than expected among young people in the aboriginal population living in northern Canada.
Recent days have seen a spike in H1N1 flu among the Inuit and the country's isolated indigenous communities.
The swine flu virus can have more serious effects on people living in poverty, the WHO says.
Of fewer than 100 people infected in Nunavut, the vast Arctic homeland of Inuits, 10 were admitted to hospital.
In Manitoba province, 16 of the 24 people in intensive care because of swine flu are from native communities.
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"...many of the aboriginal people in the remote west coast village of Ahousaht were treated with Tamilfu (or other anti-virals). Some may have received seasonal flu shots too. Today, over a hundred of them are sick, and the sickness is spreading.
In the same week, body bags were sent to similarly remote native reserves in northern Manitoba that have also received Tamiflu (or other antivirals)."
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