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Brazil Faces Yet Another Health Problem: The Swine Flu

By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – It appears that Brazil, still reeling with the surge of the Zika virus and its link to many microcephaly cases, is now facing another health problem, the H1N1 or swine flu. Since the beginning of the year more than 300 cases of H1N1 have been confirmed by the Ministry of Health with 46 deaths.

São Paulo state by far has been the hardest hit, with 260 confirmed cases and 38 deaths caused by swine flu. During the same time last year there had been twelve cases confirmed and no . . .

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