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The H1N1 virus claimed another life in Georgia Friday, taking swine flu-caused deaths in the South Caucasus country to 14 this year.
Last year, the same disease claimed the lives of 33 people after having infected more than 1,800 people in the country.
According to the Georgia's National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, the number of reported infection cases has been on the decline in the past few days, even though February is usually the month when influenza spreads fast and wide.
By Friday, 377 cases of H1N1 infections had been reported and 46 cases of type-A and type-B flu were also registered.
Georgia's public health authorities have assured its citizens that the H1N1 virus would not cause an epidemic this year as it did last year.
In June 2009, the World Health Organization declared the new strain of the swine-origin H1N1 a pandemic. The UN body declared the pandemic over in August last year.
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