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Four students have died from swine flu at a school in Ghana's second largest city, Kumasi. The health authorities say twelve out of nineteen students at the Kumasi Academy tested positive for the H1N1 virus.

Professor Kwabena Mante Bosompem is the Director of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research where the samples were examined. He told Focus on Africa's Akwasi Sarpong that normal transmission routes were from coughs and sneezes and from sharing items.

He advised families from the affected school to report to a hospital if they developed flu or any other symptoms like pain and fever.

(Photo: Kumasi Academy. Credit: Kumasi Academy/Twitter).