19 Kids Die of Swine Flu in a Week

At least 114 U.S. children have died of swine flu since April, the Associated Press reported October 30. Nineteen of those deaths occurred in the last week, U.S. health officials said. That’s the largest one-week total so far, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. The CDC said more medicine for children will soon be available. The CDC released the drug Tamiflu from a government stockpile. There have been spot shortages of the children’s dose of this medicine.