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Swine flu: Sixth fatality in Germany

Gert van der Hoek

In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
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Swine flu: Sixth fatality in Germany


Bonn / Kiev / Geneva / Rome (dpa) - In Germany, died on Friday, three other people in swine influenza. Thus, there is now so far six of whom died of infectious disease. In Saarland a five-year boy died of the effects of swine flu. In the University Hospital of Bonn, died in a woman.

Even a 16-year-old man from the Swabian Gunzburg has died after a report in the "Augsburger Allgemeine" in Augsburg Central Hospital from the effects of swine flu. How can a clinic spokesman for the newspaper had confirmed (Saturday), succumbed to the young people on Friday the virus. The hospital was in the evening to demand any information on the case longer obtain. According to information from the leaf of the young people was severely disabled. In the hospital two more would be the consequences of the swine flu ill children on a respirator.

Like a Health Ministry spokesman in the evening said in Saarbruecken, had the five who died in the Saarland child suffered from an accident two years ago from severe chronic diseases. The boy was treated for two days in a pediatric clinic in Neunkirchen and suffering in addition to the swine flu from bacterial pneumonia.

"The 48-year-old from the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis had no known medical history that would explain the severe course of disease," said a spokesman of the hospital by the evening. "Where it has been infected, is unclear." The patient was a few days ago for intensive follow-up moved to the University Hospital were. "There plugged it had to be on the artificial lung."

Last was on 23 October, the third death in the federal territory by the new flu known: A 65-year-old man died at University Hospital Mannheim.

In Europe, died after figures from the EU's disease control center ECDC is currently around 250 people in the swine flu, more than half of them in Britain. Worldwide, approximately 6000 deaths were reported, of which 1000 in the United States.

In Ukraine, after a series of deaths nationwide closed schools and banned large-scale events. In Italy, died within just 24 hours, four people to the flu, including re also a doctor, as Italian media reported.

The World Health Organization issued in Geneva expanded recommendations. Range for immunization is usually a single dose of licensed pandemic vaccine, reported to the WHO director Marie-Paule Kieny. The vaccine can, in most cases done in conjunction with the seasonal flu vaccination, and there is no reason not to vaccinate pregnant women. The WHO is based on the verdict of its Strategic Advisory Group of vaccine experts (SAGE, Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization). A universal vaccination of the entire population has the Sage is not a flat rate is recommended.

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