6th fatality reported in Spain

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Source: http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=104248&Itemid=1

Sixth death in Spain by influenza A (H1N1)
Monday, July 27, 2009

July 27 2009, 08:57 Madrid, July 27 (PL) A man of 53 years, with a severe disease prior to today became the sixth fatality from influenza A (H1N1) in Spain, where more than one thousand 800 infected with the pandemic.

According to the Ministry of Health, the patient died from complications related to influenza A in the intensive care unit of a hospital in the town of Alzira in Valencia.

This is the sixth death in the country as a result of Iberian swine flu, and the second occurs in the region after the death of an Algerian of 45 years in Alicante, the past 20 days.

So far, Spain is 806 thousand laboratory-confirmed cases, health authorities reported.

In Europe over 17 thousand were detected 800 patients with about 40 deaths.

The Spanish Minister for Health and Social Policy, Trinidad Jimenez, on Monday will appear in Congress to report on actions to be taken by the Government to address the situation created by the pandemic.

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Re: 6th ftality reported in Spain

Re: 6th ftality reported in Spain

Source: http://www.tucumanoticias.com.ar/noticia.asp?id=31165

Spain confirmed the sixth death from influenza
The deceased is a man of 53 years, who suffered serious kidney problems and hyperthyroidism. It is the second victim in Valencia

? EFE | 27/7/2009-11: 24 pm. | A man of 53 years who was admitted with influenza A in the Hospital La Ribera of Alzira (Valencia) has died and is now the sixth fatality of the disease in Spain. The deceased remained admitted in "very serious" in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital, according to sources from the Ministry of Health, which have provided no further details.

This death is the sixth in Spain by influenza A and the second to be produced in Valencia, after the death last Monday July 20 to 45 years in an Algerian in Teulada (Alicante), as was to be transferred by ambulance to Hospital de Denia.

The deceased in Teulada suffered serious kidney problems and hyperthyroidism, which was receiving dialysis treatment since 1993, where he performed the autopsy confirmed the cause of death was a "process of bilateral pneumonia by influenza A".

According to sources from the Ministry of Health, there are currently three people hospitalized with influenza A, including a woman of 28 years in the Hospital 9 d'Octubre de Valencia d'Obrubre prognosis "very serious".

The 32-year-old patient who was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Hospital La Fe de Valencia plant was transferred to hospital as a "positive development and clinical situation is very positive," and is scheduled to receive the high hospital in coming days.

A pregnant woman with influenza A continues admitted in the Hospital La Fe for a better control of your pregnancy, although its evolution is favorable and the clinical situation "very positive".

According to sources, the patient 52 years of age with influenza A who left the ICU of the Hospital La Fe on Friday, July 17, was discharged from hospital on July 22 and recovered to find.