Saturday, June 20, 2009

S. Korea's new H1N1 flu cases surge to 105






(ATTN: EDITS lead para; ADDS details; AMENDS headline)
SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- An additional 15 South Koreans were found to have been infected with the new H1N1 flu on Saturday, bringing the nation's total to 105, health officials said Saturday.

South Korea had been considered relatively insulated from the highly contagious virus, originally called "swine flu," but the figure presaged a growing number of infections as the largest number confirmed infected within one day.

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