Re: Scotland: Woman 'critical' after contracting H1N1 flu
There's a lot about this article that doesn't add up...
Are they really implying this is a case of an H1N1 swine virus other than H1N1pdm09? And what killed her mother?
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/380053/Swine-flu-mum-falls-ill-at-mother-s-funeral
Swine flu mum falls ill at mother’s funeral
A YOUNG mother had to be given an *emergency caesarean section after *collapsing with swine flu
at her mother’s funeral.
By: Dean HerbertPublished: Mon, February 25, 2013 0Comments Jennifer Scott has contracted swine flu
Jennifer Scott fell ill last week at a service for her late mother Patricia, 60.
Surgeons had to perform an emergency caesarean on the 27-year-old before she was airlifted to an English hospital for specialist treatment.
Jennifer, of Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire, was taken first to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, where her baby daughter was delivered during emergency surgery.
She was transferred south by helicopter to Glenfield Hospital in Leicester for ECMO treatment, which oxygenates the blood when the lungs fail, after being placed in a medically induced coma.
With the death of Patricia and now this the family are going through hell. It’s a terrible thing to happen and she is one of the nicest, most generous people you could ever meet.
Friend, Lucy Roberts
It later emerged that she had been suffering from
swine flu, also known as the H1N1 virus.
She is currently said to be in a “critical but stable” condition in Leicester.
Friend Lucy Roberts, 29, said: “I’m worried out of my mind for her.
“I was told Jenny began coughing and just couldn’t catch her breath.
“With the death of Patricia and now this the family are going through hell. It’s a terrible thing to happen and she is one of the nicest, most generous people you could ever meet.”
Jenny had been staying with the mother-of-three at her home in Dalbeattie in the days leading up to the funeral.
A spokesman for NHS Dumfries and Galloway said: “We have had a confirmed case of a significant flu type illness.
“That case has now been transferred and there are no other confirmed cases.”
An outbreak of deadly H1N1 sparked worldwide panic in 2009 after it was first spotted in *Mexico.
The pandemic swept the world, claiming the lives of 18,000 people, including at least 90 in Scotland, including a pregnant teenager.
In 1918 a similar pandemic wiped out more than 50 million people, with the pregnant, elderly and long-term sick most at risk.
The Scottish Government said that the strain that struck down Jenny Scott is
not the same as the one involved in the 2009 pandemic.
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