Gert van der Hoek
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Health Service in Norway doesn?t see any indication H1N1 can cause serious ilness in healthy people.
H1N1-infected woman in the respirator
The condition is serious for a svineinfluensasyk woman in the beginning of 20-years. She gets pustehjelp and isolated at St. Olavs hospital in Trondheim.
Published 21.07.2009
The condition is stable for the woman, who was infected by H1N1 virus in Norway. The woman is in the beginning of 20-years and suffering from a chronic disease which means that she is at risk.
- The woman has a severe case of swine flu. She has pneumonia and is now in intensive care, where she receives intensive and pustehjelp. The reason that the patient is so sick, is probably that she has chronic illness from before, "said klinikksjef and acting managers Eiliv Brenna at the medical clinic during a press conference Tuesday evening.
Infected in Norway
Neither the woman or any of her family members have been abroad in the past. Doctors are therefore confident that she has been infected by the H1N1 virus in Norway, most likely in North-Tr?ndelag, where she comes from.
She was admitted with pneumonia Sunday. Changes in the lungs did that doctors suspected that the woman was infected with swine flu. Samples were taken, and the infection was confirmed Monday. Woman treated with anti-virus medicine and antibiotics.
The family infected
- Pneumonia caused by influenza infection, and it is this which means that she has trouble making up NOK oxygen and must have the respirator, "says Brenna.
It is normal to get pneumonia when you are infected with swine flu. That inflammation is so severe in this case, doctors believe the disease is caused by the woman originally suffer.
- The condition has been stable and serious from the hospital. She was put on the breathing machine and has been isolated all the time, "says Brenna NTB.
Not Respiratory disease
The hospital will not say what the woman has chronic disease, because they believe it can identify her. Brenna confirms that it is not about a Respiratory disease.
- You know little about why some people are very sick, while others are not there. There may have with immune defense of the individual to do, but it is also known that many chronic illnesses can weaken the immune defenses, and do that people are sykere of swine Influensaen, "says Brenna.
Not more aggressive
Acting smittevern surgeon Andreas Radtke at St. Olavs emphasizes that those who are generally healthy, still do not have to fear the H1N1 infection.
- Those who do not have an underlying serious illness from before, will probably only noticed swine Influensaen in the form of a common cold. More or less utsl?tten is Monday, but it is in most cases, nothing serious, "says Radtke to NTB.
There is nothing to indicate that the H1N1 type of woman has been infected by something more aggressive than the previously identified cases in Norway. More in the woman's family has flu symptoms and is probably also infected with swine influenza, but they are not seriously sick.
Folkehelseinstituttet has so far not received other reports of people who have been seriously ill of swine influenza.
http://www.aftenbladet.no/innenriks/1055849/H1N1-smittet_kvinne_i_respirator.html
H1N1-infected woman in the respirator
The condition is serious for a svineinfluensasyk woman in the beginning of 20-years. She gets pustehjelp and isolated at St. Olavs hospital in Trondheim.
Published 21.07.2009
The condition is stable for the woman, who was infected by H1N1 virus in Norway. The woman is in the beginning of 20-years and suffering from a chronic disease which means that she is at risk.
- The woman has a severe case of swine flu. She has pneumonia and is now in intensive care, where she receives intensive and pustehjelp. The reason that the patient is so sick, is probably that she has chronic illness from before, "said klinikksjef and acting managers Eiliv Brenna at the medical clinic during a press conference Tuesday evening.
Infected in Norway
Neither the woman or any of her family members have been abroad in the past. Doctors are therefore confident that she has been infected by the H1N1 virus in Norway, most likely in North-Tr?ndelag, where she comes from.
She was admitted with pneumonia Sunday. Changes in the lungs did that doctors suspected that the woman was infected with swine flu. Samples were taken, and the infection was confirmed Monday. Woman treated with anti-virus medicine and antibiotics.
The family infected
- Pneumonia caused by influenza infection, and it is this which means that she has trouble making up NOK oxygen and must have the respirator, "says Brenna.
It is normal to get pneumonia when you are infected with swine flu. That inflammation is so severe in this case, doctors believe the disease is caused by the woman originally suffer.
- The condition has been stable and serious from the hospital. She was put on the breathing machine and has been isolated all the time, "says Brenna NTB.
Not Respiratory disease
The hospital will not say what the woman has chronic disease, because they believe it can identify her. Brenna confirms that it is not about a Respiratory disease.
- You know little about why some people are very sick, while others are not there. There may have with immune defense of the individual to do, but it is also known that many chronic illnesses can weaken the immune defenses, and do that people are sykere of swine Influensaen, "says Brenna.
Not more aggressive
Acting smittevern surgeon Andreas Radtke at St. Olavs emphasizes that those who are generally healthy, still do not have to fear the H1N1 infection.
- Those who do not have an underlying serious illness from before, will probably only noticed swine Influensaen in the form of a common cold. More or less utsl?tten is Monday, but it is in most cases, nothing serious, "says Radtke to NTB.
There is nothing to indicate that the H1N1 type of woman has been infected by something more aggressive than the previously identified cases in Norway. More in the woman's family has flu symptoms and is probably also infected with swine influenza, but they are not seriously sick.
Folkehelseinstituttet has so far not received other reports of people who have been seriously ill of swine influenza.
http://www.aftenbladet.no/innenriks/1055849/H1N1-smittet_kvinne_i_respirator.html