Cuba announces first swine flu deathsCuba announced that three pregnant women died after contracting swine flu swine flu n. A highly contagious form of human influenza caused by a filterable virus identical or related to a virus formerly isolated from infected swine. , the first report of A(H1N1) casualties on the communist island. "We unfortunately have to regret three confirmed cases of people who died" of swine flu, Deputy Health Minister Jose Angel Portal Miranda said on a television news program. He did not say when the three women died. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. government officials, the number of confirmed H1N1 cases in the country stands at 621 people, including 177 children. National Epidemiology epidemiology, field of medicine concerned with the study of epidemics, outbreaks of disease that affect large numbers of people. Epidemiologists, using sophisticated statistical analyses, field investigations, and complex laboratory techniques, investigate the cause Director Manuel Santin said around 30 percent of the cases were "imported" by tourism to the island, which hosts 2.5 million visitors a year. According to the latest World Health Organisation figures, at least 4,525 people have died from swine flu infections since the virus was uncovered Uncovered may refer to:
This is an increase of 417 fatal cases from a week ago when 4,108 deaths were recorded, the UN health agency said in its weekly update of the pandemic pandemic /pan·dem·ic/ (pan-dem´ik) 1. a widespread epidemic of a disease. 2. widely epidemic. pan·dem·ic adj. Epidemic over a wide geographic area. n. . Most deaths occurred in the Americas region, where 3,292 fatalities have been reported. 
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