Sweden: second suspect swineflu death reported.

[Gert van der Hoek]

google translated

Published: 2009-09-03


New suspicious death in flu

STOCKHOLM. Another person has died in what is suspected to be swine flu, said the county council of V?stmanland.

It is the second known Swedish case. A man in the Uppsala region that died last Friday was carrying the virus.

The suspicious death of A (H1N1) reported from the Central Hospital in Vasteras.

The County Council is expected to tell more in a press conference this afternoon.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/senastenytt/ttnyheter/inrikes/article5736276.ab

 

[Aruna]

Re: Sweden: second suspect swineflu death reported.

Early reports suggest that the man is in his 50ies/early 60ies.

*update* acording to the press-conference the man was a 55 year old patient gravely ill with cancer, came in for treatment on Monday saying he had been felling ill was admitted and died on Wednesday afternoon.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article5737327.ab

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Sweden: second suspect swineflu death reported.

Deceased husband had cancer

OF TT

PUBLISHED September 3, 2009 13:16 | Updated September 3, 2009 16:27

Another man has died of suspected swine flu, said the county council V?stmanland.

STOCKHOLM. The deceased is a man of 55-years old from V?ster?s. He was nursed in intensive care at the Central Hospital in Vasteras, said the county council said in a statement.

The man was difficult cancer and had received chemotherapy. He came to the hospital on Monday and then discovered that he had a fever and signs of pneumonia.

Today's test results confirm that he had influenza A. The test results are expected tomorrow morning from the University Hospital of the man had a new influenza A/H1N1.

The man was written into the infection clinic, but his condition deteriorated rapidly. On Tuesday he was moved to intensive care unit and connected to a respirator but despite maximum intensive care interventions were his life not to save, according to the county council. He died this morning.

This is the second known Swedish case. On Friday died a swine influenza ill man in his 40s in Uppsala. He belonged to a division, but according to family health care would not say which. The man was common flu-like symptoms such as pain in the body and neck.


The spread of infection is highest in urban areas - especially in the Stockholm area.
- In Stockholm, there are already 379 reported cases and rate per 100 000 population is higher than other counties.

Super Flu is likely one or two weeks earlier in the country's metropolitan regions than in less densely populated areas, "says Andreas Heddini, deputy state epidemiologist at the Infectious Diseases Institute.

The counties with the highest proportion of reported cases per 100 000 population in week 35 were Stockholm, Sweden with 19.2, followed by 13.4 of Skane, Kronoberg by 13.2 and by 10.4 Uppsala.

The number of cases reported during the week were 379 pieces of Stockholm, 163 pieces in Scania and 148 pieces of V?stra G?taland.

http://sydsvenskan.se/sverige/article547320/Avlidne-mannen-var-cancersjuk.html