3rd & 4th A/H1N1 fatality reported in Spain

[Shiloh]

Source: http://www.laestrella.com.pa/mensual/2009/07/16/contenido/12504410.asp

Google translation:

Woman dies of H1N1 in Spain
07-16-2009 | AP
online@laestrella.com.pa
Al Minuto A woman aged 33 died on Thursday due to Influenza A H1N1, becoming the third fatality in Spain by the new virus.
The Ministry of Health reported in a statement that the patient died in a Hospital in Palma de Mallorca in the Balearic Islands, where he joined last July 12.
In total, Spain recorded 1222 confirmed cases of swine flu in the country. Most patients respond favorably to treatment, although, according to Health, there are a dozen people infected in a serious condition.
With the death of this woman, from which his identity was not provided, would amount to _dos three women and a hombre_ the number of deaths resulting from complications of the virus.
In Europe have been 14,600 new cases of the flu and 17 people have died.

 

[Shiloh]

Re: 3rd & 4th A/H1N1 fatality reported in Spain

Source: http://elobservador.rctv.net/Noticias/VerNoticia.aspx?NoticiaId=264072&Tipo=20

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A 4 increases the number of deaths in Spain by Influenza AH1N1
July 16, 2009 .-

Four raised the death toll due to virus AH1N1 in Spain, meet this Thursday after the death of two infected patients. This was announced by the Ministry of Health and Social Policy Spanish in a statement.



The first victim was a woman of 33 years of age who died in the Balearic Islands, where he remained interned since last July 12 at the Hospital Son Lltzer Palma de Mallorca.



Be known shortly after the death of a man of 71 years in Madrid. The patient with a history of respiratory problems, was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Hospital de la Paz, "because a reagudizaci?n lung disease and its complications from influenza H1N1," according to the text.



The other fatalities were in Spain a couple of 19 years who died in Madrid and a man of 41, in Gran Canaria.



This strain of influenza virus, which originated in Mexico and United States, has caused the first pandemic of the twenty-first century, to infect more than 1 million people, according to some estimates, causing the deaths of about 500. The Spanish Ministry of Health indicated that the country had 1222 confirmed cases.

 

[Chuck]

Re: 3rd & 4th A/H1N1 fatality reported in Spain

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/n...in_concerned_about_swine_flu_death__Roundup__

Spain concerned about swine flu death (Roundup)
Health News

Jul 17, 2009, 9:33 GMT

Madrid - Spanish health authorities Friday expressed concern about the occasional aggressiveness of swine flu, which killed a 33-year-old woman without health problems that would explain the rapid progression of her disease.

The woman, who was of Nigerian origin, died on Thursday on the Balearic Island of Majorca. She had been hospitalized since Sunday.

'We are very worried, because until now the most serious cases had been people with ... previous illnesses,' Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez said.

The woman developed pneumonia, and did not respond to treatment, despite her rapid hospitalization. Jimenez said Spain would inform the World Health Organization (WHO) about the case.

A 71-year-old man also died of H1N1 influenza on Thursday in Madrid, but he had previously suffered from a chronic lung disease.

The two deaths brought the death toll to four in Spain, which has more than 1,200 confirmed cases of H1N1.

Jimenez said swine flu could kill about as many people as ordinary flu, which claims some 8,000 lives annually in Spain.

Spain's first H1N1 fatality was Dalilah Mimouni, a 20-year-old Moroccan woman who had an emergency Caesarian section before her death. A glaring medical error then led to the death of her baby at a Madrid hospital.

Hundreds of people attended the boy's funeral in M'diq, northern Morocco, on Thursday. King Mohammed VI had sent a plane to pick up the body of baby Rayan, who was buried next to his mother.

The Madrid health authorities said they would install computer systems to prevent errors such as the one that killed Rayan, who was fed intravenously rather than through the nose.