Belgium - H1N1 - 1st death of a woman

[FrenchieGirl]

Influenza A/H1N1: first death in Belgique
jeudi 30.07.2009, 14:21

The Interministerial Influenza Commission learned this morning the death of a young woman from the province of Antwerp, as a result of influenza A/H1N1. The patient had been taken over by the emergency department of the hospital in the region, from July 20, where she died this morning.

 

[theforeigner]

Re: Belgium - H1N1 - 1st death of a woman

Found this info on another website, no link though:


http://www.avianflutalk.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=24378&PID=191704#191704

"LAST NIGHT, A YOUNG (OTHERWISE HEALTHY) WOMAN DIED ...AFTER BEING TAKEN TO EMERGENCY CAR THE 20 JULY.....SHE ENTERED THE HOSPITAL WITH AMONIA....DEVELOPED A DOUBLE AMONIA IN THE HOSPITAL. ANALYSIS PROOVED SHE HAD A/H1N1...

IT SEEMS THAT TAMIFLU IS DOING NOTHING WHEN NEEDED.....
A LOT OF PEOPLE GET BETTERWHITOUT TAMIFLU...FOR NOW"


So the question is did this woman get Tamiflu BEFORE the 48 hours critical time limit, but died anyway?
OR, did she get Tamifly AFTER the critical 48 hour time limit?

 

[Chuck]

Re: Belgium - H1N1 - 1st death of a woman

http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news...ng_news&cate_img=316.jpg&cate_rss=news_Health

Belgium reports country's 1st swine flu death
Associated Press
2009-07-30 09:29 PM

Belgian officials are reporting the country's first swine flu death and say the patient had also contracted pneumonia.

The federal influenza agency says the woman was hospitalized on July 20 with symptoms of the A/H1N1 influenza and died 11 days later after "she developed a double viral pneumonia."

The agency's statement Thursday did not identify the patient or give her age. It says she lived in northern Belgium.

As of mid-July, Belgium had 126 confirmed cases of swine flu. Since then the government has reported several hundred new cases.

 

[theforeigner]

Re: Belgium - H1N1 - 1st death of a woman

Here is a machin translation from a flamish newsreport :

http://hln.be/hln/nl/4311/Mexicaans...-eerste-Belgische-dode-Mexicaanse-griep.dhtml

In the UZ Antwerp is one of fifty in a coma by Mexican flu and a severe pneumonia. The man is on the intensive care unit and closely monitored. The hospital is in danger.

Earlier today in the hospital in Turnhout first victim died in the Mexican flu, a young woman from Meerle.

The young woman was the first fatal victim of the A/H1N1-pandemie in our country. It reports the Inter-Ministerial Commission Influenza.

The woman, a thirties whose identity is not released, had during the weekend of Saturday 18 to Sunday, July 19 the first light flu symptoms: headache, slight fever and cough. On Monday, July 20 contacted her family doctor, who was recording the same afternoon at the emergency department of the local hospital with a provisional diagnosis of pneumonia. She had her disease not traveled abroad.

Double viral pneumonia
When recording her condition was not alarming, but which deteriorated as a double viral pneumonia developed. An analysis confirmed infection with the A/H1N1-griep or Mexican flu. Despite the efforts of the medical team from the hospital, as the Commissioner stresses, the woman died this morning.

Certain that the woman is the first Mexican-flu death in Belgium, but it is not clear exactly how many people already infected were in our country. During the isolation phase, which ran until July 13, 126 patients were found to have. An extrapolation based on the record by 180 general practitioners provided for week 29 (12-18 July), 300 new cases, while the number of new cases in week 30 is estimated at 281. From today, the Commissioner has published a weekly estimate.

Margin of error
The infection is thus the normal level for this time of year, it sounds. There is also no significant difference in the spread of virus among the population over the past two weeks. At present, the registrations by the general practitioners is at a low circulation of the virus. Because an extrapolation method, must therefore be a certain margin of error should be respected, says the Inter-Ministerial Commission Influenza.

Worldwide registered the World Health Organization (WHO) has 134,503 cases of A/H1N1-griep. As a result of the pandemic would be 816 people deceased, of whom 37 in Europe. (belga / SPS