Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Two more patients died of swine flu in Germany
0 30.10.09 |
Saarbr?cken / Bonn -- Two other patients infected with swine flu have died in Germany. The victims are a child (5) with chronic lung disease and a woman (48).
A 5-year-0ld boy died on Friday afternoon in the Children's Hospital Kohlhof in Neunkirchen, Saarland, as the Health Ministry announced in Saarbr?cken. He had severe pneumonia, was hospitalized for two days and was mechanically ventilated.
In North Rhine - Westphalia died in a 48 -- year-old woman from the Rhine - Victory Circle, as announced, the University Hospital of Bonn on Friday. The patient had no known medical history that would explain the severe course of disease, reported the clinic. Where they have been infected is unclear.
She had been moved a few days ago from another hospital for intensive follow-up in the University Hospital of Bonn. There, she had to be connected to the artificial lung. Thus a total of five people have been associated with the new flu in Germany to death.
Previously had a 65 -- year-old man from Mannheim, a child of five in Munich and a 36 -- year-old woman died of the disease eating proven.
Five year old boy from the Saarland was severely hampered for two years by a current accident and placed in a childcare center in Ottweiler. He was in North - Born in Westphalia. The child suffered according to the Ministry for four weeks with a bacterial pneumonia.
All contact persons associated with the boy and the health department had been informed, they said. It had been arranged hygienic measures to prevent further spread of the virus.
http://www.merkur-online.de/nachric...-deutschland-gestorben-507413.html?cmp=defrss
0 30.10.09 |
Saarbr?cken / Bonn -- Two other patients infected with swine flu have died in Germany. The victims are a child (5) with chronic lung disease and a woman (48).
A 5-year-0ld boy died on Friday afternoon in the Children's Hospital Kohlhof in Neunkirchen, Saarland, as the Health Ministry announced in Saarbr?cken. He had severe pneumonia, was hospitalized for two days and was mechanically ventilated.
In North Rhine - Westphalia died in a 48 -- year-old woman from the Rhine - Victory Circle, as announced, the University Hospital of Bonn on Friday. The patient had no known medical history that would explain the severe course of disease, reported the clinic. Where they have been infected is unclear.
She had been moved a few days ago from another hospital for intensive follow-up in the University Hospital of Bonn. There, she had to be connected to the artificial lung. Thus a total of five people have been associated with the new flu in Germany to death.
Previously had a 65 -- year-old man from Mannheim, a child of five in Munich and a 36 -- year-old woman died of the disease eating proven.
Five year old boy from the Saarland was severely hampered for two years by a current accident and placed in a childcare center in Ottweiler. He was in North - Born in Westphalia. The child suffered according to the Ministry for four weeks with a bacterial pneumonia.
All contact persons associated with the boy and the health department had been informed, they said. It had been arranged hygienic measures to prevent further spread of the virus.
http://www.merkur-online.de/nachric...-deutschland-gestorben-507413.html?cmp=defrss