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Source: http://www.eldeber.com.bo/2009/2009-06-20/vernotaahora.php?id=090620144957
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Chile confirms fifth death from swine flu, a couple (youth) of 18 years
A couple (youth) of 18 years old with morbid obesity and heart failure, died on Saturday in the southern city of Puerto Montt and became the fifth died of swine flu in Chile, confirmed the director of local health services.
"We must report the death of a couple of 18 years," he told journalists the director of Health Service Reloncav?, Eugenia Schnake, the network belonging to the health centers in Puerto Montt.
Identified as Nelson Maldonado, the young man had multiple pathologies associated with morbid obesity, like shortness of breath, Schnake said.
The couple was interned from June 6 at the hospital in that city located some 1,100 km from the capital, very cold and wet during the austral winter, and where are all victims of fatal disease in Chile so far.
"This is a man of 18 years admitted with pneumonia AH1N1, catastrophic respiratory failure and septic shock, is also associated diseases of morbid obesity and heart failure," said a report published on the website of the Health Service Reloncav?.
In Puerto Montt there are three other patients in life-threatening, according to the report.
Cases of swine flu were confirmed in Chile from 4315 to date according to official statistics.
The outbreak of human influenza caused an official statement on Wednesday, emergency health health ministry gave extraordinary powers to fight disease and the possibility of emergency medical personnel, among others.
AFP
Google translation:
Chile confirms fifth death from swine flu, a couple (youth) of 18 years
A couple (youth) of 18 years old with morbid obesity and heart failure, died on Saturday in the southern city of Puerto Montt and became the fifth died of swine flu in Chile, confirmed the director of local health services.
"We must report the death of a couple of 18 years," he told journalists the director of Health Service Reloncav?, Eugenia Schnake, the network belonging to the health centers in Puerto Montt.
Identified as Nelson Maldonado, the young man had multiple pathologies associated with morbid obesity, like shortness of breath, Schnake said.
The couple was interned from June 6 at the hospital in that city located some 1,100 km from the capital, very cold and wet during the austral winter, and where are all victims of fatal disease in Chile so far.
"This is a man of 18 years admitted with pneumonia AH1N1, catastrophic respiratory failure and septic shock, is also associated diseases of morbid obesity and heart failure," said a report published on the website of the Health Service Reloncav?.
In Puerto Montt there are three other patients in life-threatening, according to the report.
Cases of swine flu were confirmed in Chile from 4315 to date according to official statistics.
The outbreak of human influenza caused an official statement on Wednesday, emergency health health ministry gave extraordinary powers to fight disease and the possibility of emergency medical personnel, among others.
AFP