Flu pandemic in England killed 70 children in 2009, study shows

Study published in Lancet shows infants most at risk and unexplained preponderance of Bangladeshi and Pakistani victims during swine flu outbreak DNA test kits for the influenza A(H1N1) or swine flu virus. A new study has shown 70 children died in England from the virus in the 2009 outbreak Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images Last year's flu pandemic took the lives of 70 children in England, with babies less than a year old the worst affected, according to a new study published today. The analysis, carried out by former chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson and Dr Nabihah Sachedina, his former clinical adviser at the department of health, also found that death rates...