North Korea Reports Swine Flu Outbreak

[Coventina]

Source: New York Times

SEOUL — North Korea on Wednesday acknowledged an outbreak of swine flu, as relief officials in South Korea reported that the virus had killed dozens of people in the reclusive country.

North Korea’s official news agency, K.C.N.A., said nine cases had been confirmed in the capital of Pyongyang and in Sinuiju, a town near the border with China. It did not say whether there had been any deaths.

But the Seoul-based aid group Good Friends said about 40 people had already died after swine flu broke out in the North last month.

Such reports compelled the South Korean president, Lee Myung-bak, on Tuesday to offer to send swine flu medication to North Korea. The North has not responded to the gesture from Mr. Lee, whom it had called a national traitor for taking a hard line over the North’s nuclear weapons program.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/world/asia/10korea.html

[Mojorabbit]

1. It was bound to happen

I hope some help will be allowed in for those people who are ill.