Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Swine flu calls dead in Vorarlberg:
19-year-old dies after pneumonia
? The patient suffered from severe chronic illness
? No further cases of disease in the area known
A 19-year-old man died in the State Hospital Feldkirch to swine flu. The patient suffered from a serious chronic disease.
For this reason, suffering a severe lung infection due to H1N1 infection had been added, informed provincial health director Elmar Bechtel. On New Year's Day, a 24-year-old German tourists in Saalbach / Hinterglemm the H1N1 virus had died, the 19-year-old Vorarlberg, making it the second pig flu deaths in Austria 2011th
Severe organ change
During the autopsy of the corpse of 19-year-old was found, according to Bechtel that the chronic disease of the young man already had a heavy body modification have resulted. "The case is a particularly fatal disease," said Bechtel. The 19-year-old was the beginning of week with the family doctor made representations and transferred by a acute case of the LKH Feldkirch been.
No further cases in the area
In the environment of the young man give it to his knowledge no other cases of illness, said the provincial health director. The current assessment of the flu season for Vorarlberg remained unchanged. The influenza virus is currently showing a "moderately increased activity in all of Austria. An influenza vaccination is recommended especially to people with chronic primary disease, Bechtel.
(Apa / red)
http://www.news.at/articles/1102/6/...ten-vorarlberg-19-jaehriger-lungenentzuendung
19-year-old dies after pneumonia
? The patient suffered from severe chronic illness
? No further cases of disease in the area known
A 19-year-old man died in the State Hospital Feldkirch to swine flu. The patient suffered from a serious chronic disease.
For this reason, suffering a severe lung infection due to H1N1 infection had been added, informed provincial health director Elmar Bechtel. On New Year's Day, a 24-year-old German tourists in Saalbach / Hinterglemm the H1N1 virus had died, the 19-year-old Vorarlberg, making it the second pig flu deaths in Austria 2011th
Severe organ change
During the autopsy of the corpse of 19-year-old was found, according to Bechtel that the chronic disease of the young man already had a heavy body modification have resulted. "The case is a particularly fatal disease," said Bechtel. The 19-year-old was the beginning of week with the family doctor made representations and transferred by a acute case of the LKH Feldkirch been.
No further cases in the area
In the environment of the young man give it to his knowledge no other cases of illness, said the provincial health director. The current assessment of the flu season for Vorarlberg remained unchanged. The influenza virus is currently showing a "moderately increased activity in all of Austria. An influenza vaccination is recommended especially to people with chronic primary disease, Bechtel.
(Apa / red)
http://www.news.at/articles/1102/6/...ten-vorarlberg-19-jaehriger-lungenentzuendung