China - Student in Bejing died of A/H1N1

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China reports 4th death from A/H1N1 flu

www.chinaview.cn 2009-10-28

BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- A student from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics died of A/H1N1 flu Tuesday, the 4th death from the epidemic, local health authorities announced Wednesday.

Several first year students showed flu symptoms of fever during a routine military training, involving more than 3,000 students, in a training base in Daxing District on Oct. 22.

The student was sent to hospital after the condition continued to deteriorate on Monday and the student succumbed on Tuesday after rescue, according to the local health authorities.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/28/content_12350203.htm

 

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Re: China - Student in Bejing died of A/H1N1

Mainland reports 4th H1N1 flu death
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-10-29 00:52

BEIJING: Beijing has reported its first death case of A(H1N1) flu, also the fourth on the Chinese mainland, health authorities said Wednesday.

The patient, a freshman at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, had tested positive for A(H1N1) flu and died Tuesday, a spokesman with the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau said.

The young student and some other schoolmates developed fever and other flu symptoms during a military training -- a compulsory training for freshmen at Chinese universities -- in the past week in the Daxing District in suburban Beijing.

The student was sent to a district hospital Monday as the physical condition deteriorated, but died Tuesday.

More than 3,000 freshmen from the university attended the military training starting October 22, and 28 out of 71 who had a temperature above 38 degrees Celsius had tested positive for A(H1N1) flu, the health bureau spokesman said.

"The health and education authorities have ordered the university to enhance prevention measures and quarantine the patients. Currently, they are all in stable condition and no severe case has been reported," he said.

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China warns of 'grim' swine flu battle, 4th death reported

Thu Oct 29, 12:08 PM

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BEIJING (AFP) - China has warned the country's battle against swine flu is "extremely grim" after infection levels spiked in some areas and a Beijing university student became the fourth person here to die of the virus.

"There is a surge in patients in many parts of China, some schools have experienced clusters of cases, and some areas have entered the flu season," China's State Council, or cabinet, said in a statement issued late Wednesday.

"In the coming period, the epidemic will continue to develop, and the prevention and control situation is extremely grim," the State Council, headed by Premier Wen Jiabao, said in the statement posted on a government website.

The warning came after a student at Beijing's Beihang University, the nation's top aeronautics and astronautics institution, died on Tuesday of the A(H1N1) virus, state media said, citing health authorities.

The unnamed student was one of more than 3,000 new university recruits participating in compulsory military drills, the official China Daily newspaper reported.

Some of these students last week started showing symptoms of flu, such as fever, and one of them was rushed to hospital on Monday and died the next day, according to a statement posted on the Beijing health bureau's website.

A total of 28 other students have tested positive for A(H1N1) flu, but all were in a stable condition late Wednesday.

"There is a long battle ahead as the city counters this year's flu infection,"

Fang Laiying, head of the Beijing health bureau, was quoted as saying by the China Daily.

"Near the New Year, the number of people who catch the flu... could reach 12,000 people per day. More than half of them could be infected with H1N1 influenza, and we have not reached peak time yet."

More than 6,000 residents in Beijing are contracting flu every day, the report said, citing hospital records.

"This is five times more than the same period last year, and half of these people are infected with H1N1 influenza," the report said.

More than 42,000 cases of swine flu had been reported in China as of Wednesday, according to health ministry figures.

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