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An epidemic of the H1N1 swine flu virus has been declared at an army Garrison in Tammisaari in southern Finland.

A total of nine cases of the virus have been confirmed and a further thirty conscripts are believed to have also contracted the disease.

The Senior Physician at the Dragsvik Garrison, Jarl-Erik Nyholm told YLE’s Swedish Language News the garrison had been closed and placed under quarantine due to the epidemic. Leave has been cancelled for over 700 conscripts.

Two confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus have been reported at a Frontier Guard garrison at Imatra in eastern Finland with a further 21 suspected cases.

Over 200 cases of the H1N1 virus have been confirmed in Finland. However, the number could be much higher; laboratories will no longer test every person who may have contracted the disease.

Finland's confirmed A/H1N1 flu cases have totaled 218, the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare said on Friday, Xinhua reported.
According to local media reports, A/H1N1 flu epidemic of small scale has appeared in some places in Finland.
A kindergarten in Espoo, southern Finland has reported that 13 children and 4 of its staff have shown typical influenza symptoms since mid-August. Two of them have been diagnosed with A/H1N1 flu. However, none of them was in any serious conditions.
The local health agency also proved that the epidemic has been contained at the kindergarten.

Another 22 cases of influenza A (H1N1) were confirmed in Lapland, Finland, last weekend, suggesting an outbreak of epidemic in the northern province of northern country, today reported Finnish media.

These newly confirmed cases were detected in Rovaniemi, Lappi provincial capital, and also in the central part of the province.

According to the report, a side of the central part of the province had an outbreak of cases of influenza A (H1N1) recently with 63 people with symptoms similar to influenza A (H1N1), which confirmed that 20 are infected with the virus.

According to the National Institute of Health and Welfare of Finland, the first wave of influenza A (H1N1) and appeared in Finland and it is expected the maximum of the epidemic in four to six weeks.

In Finland the first Saturday has died as a result of the Mexican flu. It concerns a 25-year-old woman in a hospital in Northern Ostrobothnia (Ostrobothnia) died.

The woman had been chronically ill, which she suffered is not further disclosed.

On October 16 was the woman found that she had a respiratory infection caused by the H1N1virus. She was immediately treated with Tamiflu. The circumstances under which the wife is deceased, be further examined.

So far, 522 cases of the Mexican flu officially recorded. Approximately 50 cases were found last week. Most of these new cases have occurred in Finnish Lapland.

An eight year old girl in Finland has died of swine flu.

She died at her home on Tuesday night.

- The girl had no underlying risk factors, "said Terhi Kilpi physician at the Institute for Health and Welfare, told Aftonbladet.

The girl lived in Tornio, but went to school on the Swedish side of the border, in Haparanda.

The 8-year-old girl stayed home from school on Monday with what they thought was a cold. She fell ill suddenly and died during the night.

Today, the Finnish authorities confirmed that the girl was carrying H1N1 virus. It also confirms that the girl had no underlying diseases that could explain the death. She belonged in other words, none of the divisions.

- The cause of death was swine flu, and the girl had no underlying risk factors, "said Terhi Kilpi physician at the Institute for Health and Welfare, told Aftonbladet.

This is the second death in Finland linked to the flu.

It has now been found safe 1 213 cases of swine flu in Finland, but the actual number of sick is assumed to be diversified, writes Yle.

Today, a memorial was held in girl's school.