First local swine flu death reported in Austria - NOT

[JimO]

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First local swine flu death reported in Austria
Health News
Nov 10, 2009, 19:24 GMT

Vienna - Swine flu claimed its first local victim in Austria Tuesday, as a 39-year-old man died in Salzburg province, the region's health chief Christoph Koenig confirmed.

The Romanian man died of a heart attack at a hospital in Schwarzach, most likely a complication that resulted from his infection with the H1N1 virus, according to media reports.

So far, only a handful of swine flu patients have faced serious complications in Austria, a Health Ministry spokeswoman told the German Press Agency dpa earlier.

Last week, an 11-year-old girl from Italy died in an Austrian hospital in Innsbruck, where she had been transferred for treatment.

The ministry reported 964 confirmed cases since the outbreak of the disease as of Monday, but virologists say the real number is much higher, with more than 10,000 estimated cases in Vienna alone. The country has a population of 8.4 million.

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: First local swine flu death reported in Austria - NOT

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Salzburg: The patient died not from H1N1

17.11.2009 | 09:29 | (DiePresse.com)

A week ago, a patient with H1N1 infection in the hospital is Schwarzach died
but not the flu, but of a heart attack. This has the
Pathological examination revealed.

tha patient who has died in hospital a week ago Schwarzach (Pongau)
is to satisfy all studies on the effects of an already one-two
Day-old heart attack and died not on the new flu.

Pathological
anatomically could neither evidence of acute viral infection or a
bacterial superinfection of the lungs to be found, said Univ.-Prof. Reinhard
Lenzhofer Schwarzach from the hospital on Tuesday. Land Ambulance Director
Christopher King had on 10 November promulgated through the media that in Salzburg
The first swine flu victims there.

The patient was on 7 November at 10 clock to the rescue with the sign of a
incipient state of shock in the hospital. A short time later he died of
Heart failure. He had already suffered several days of massive vomiting.

Following the outcome of all pathological examinations were as
Cause of a large anterior wall myocardial infarction are detected, which is about two days
was old, and has ultimately led to cardiogenic shock, it was said in the statement
Hospital Schwarzach. "The affected coronary artery was already before this
Event was limited to about 90 percent. "As blockers cause of this
acute vascular occlusion could the massive fluid loss through vomiting
Framework of the H1N1 virus infection with subsequent dehydration be to blame.

diepresse.com