Sunday, February 28, 2010
Young (5) dies after swine flu infection
Munich --
A five-year-old boy who fell ill after a serious illness in addition to pigs and influenza, in Munich, has died of pneumonia.
As told the Municipal Hospital, is the infection with the H1N1 virus is not the cause of death of the child.
The boy was placed on medical grounds in the Schwabing Hospital consistently and until his death in isolation on Tuesday morning.
A spokeswoman confirmed that additional cases have not appeared at the Schwabing Hospital.
When and where the sick child had been infected with the virus, the spokeswoman could not say at first. To the type of serious previous illness, they said, for reasons of medical confidentiality is not.
The medical history will not, however, suggesting that the H1N1 virus poses a growing threat, said the medical center with more. Already in late September in Essen, a woman had died of respiratory failure, was along with other diseases, such as blood poisoning, the H1N1 virus.