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Portugal: woman (32) third swineflu death

Gert van der Hoek

In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Third fatal victim as a direct consequence of the disease

This morning in Portugal a third victim died as a direct result of influenza A. This is a woman of 32 years who had been recently gave birth.

It is recalled that yesterday it was announced the death of a man of 53 years and over these two cases are the three people killed by the flu that had no previous illness.

In Portugal they are already close to 13 600 people reportedly infected with the virus.

The woman who died this morning infected with the H1N1 virus, which was mother recently died at the Hospital Curry Cabral, Lisbon, where he was hospitalized on 18 August.

According to the Ministry of Health it was a post-partum 32 years "without underlying disease" and was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital.

Also according to the Ministry of Health, the cause of death was "bilateral pneumonia caused by H1N1 virus."

This is the third death from H1N1 virus in Portugal and came a day after another known fatal case, a 53 year old man who died at the Hospital of St. John Porto, a result of bilateral pneumonia.

The September 26 was the first known case in the death of a man of 49 years in the Curry Cabral Hospital, Lisbon, also a victim of pneumonia caused by the same virus.


Pneumonia is most common complication

The President of the Portuguese Society of Pulmonology (SPP) has explained this morning that the pneumonia was identified in three patients with the H1N1 virus have died in Portugal, is the most common complication of influenza, including seasonal flu.

Luis Antonio Segorbe in a statement to Lusa, concerning the third fatal case of influenza A in Portugal explained that this is a "common complication.

"Every year people with seasonal flu and pneumonia Portugal is one of the most common complications of this disease, although less frequent in influenza A," said the Chairman of SPP.




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Terceira vítima mortal em consequência directa da doença


Morreu esta madrugada em Portugal uma terceira vítima como consequência directa da Gripa A. Trata-se de uma mulher de 32 anos que tinha sido mãe há pouco tempo. Recorde-se que ontem tinha sido anunciada a morte de um homem de 53 anos e que com mais estes dois casos são já três as vítimas mortais por Gripe A que não tinham qualquer doença prévia.

Em Portugal são já perto de 13 600 as pessoas supostamente infectadas com o vírus.

A mulher que morreu esta madrugada infectada com o vírus H1N1, que foi mãe recentemente, morreu no Hospital Curry Cabral, em Lisboa, onde se encontrava internada desde 18 de Agosto.

Segundo o Ministério da Saúde tratava-se de uma puérpera de 32 anos "sem doença de base" e que se encontrava internada na Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos do hospital.

Ainda segundo o Ministério da Saúde a causa da morte foi "pneumonia bilateral provocada pelo vírus H1N1".

Trata-se da terceira morte pelo vírus H1N1 em Portugal e acontece um dia depois de conhecido um outro caso fatal, um homem de 53 anos que morreu no Hospital de São João, no Porto, em consequência de pneumonia bilateral.

A 26 de Setembro foi conhecida o primeiro caso com a morte de um homem de 49 anos no Hospital Curry Cabral, em Lisboa, vítima também de uma pneumonia provocada pelo mesmo vírus.

Pneumonia é complicação mais frequente

O presidente da Sociedade Portuguesa de Pneumologia (SPP) já explicou esta manhã que a pneumonia, identificada nos três doentes com o vírus H1N1 que morreram em Portugal, é a complicação mais frequente da gripe, incluindo a gripe sazonal.

António Segorbe Luís, em declarações à Agência Lusa, a propósito do terceiro caso mortal de Gripe A em Portugal explicou que esta é uma "complicação comum".

"Todos os anos morrem pessoas com a gripe sazonal em Portugal e a pneumonia é uma das complicações mais comuns desta doença, embora seja menos frequente na gripe A", referiu o Presidente da SPP.
 
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