Thanh Hoa records first H1N1 death (Vietnam)
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The central province of Thanh Hoa on Saturday reported its first swine flu fatality with a 63-year-old man succumbing to the disease.
The patient, whose name has not been released, started having mild fever and diarrhea on September 10, and was treated at home, said Director Ha Dinh Ngu of the Thanh Hoa Preventive Health Center.
When his condition did not improve, his family brought him to the local general hospital on September 20 where he was diagnosed as having critical pneumonia and shock caused by respiratory infection, and a blood sample was sent to Hanoi-based National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology to test for the influenza A (H1N1 virus).
His condition worsened on September 21 and his family asked for persmission to take him home, where he died the same day, Ngu said.
Test results on September 30 confirmed the patient had contracted the swine flu virus.
Since swine flu was first detected in the country in May, more than 9,000 people have caught it. Twenty have died, but test results for two of them, including a 29-year-old man who died on Friday in Ho Chi Minh City, are still to be officially confirmed.
(( Neither child had chronic medical conditions that would have put them at heightened risk of complications from the illness, health officials said. ))
Five-year-old, infant die of swine flu (New Mexico)
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Olivier Uyttebrouck 03 October 2009
The H1N1 flu virus claimed the lives of two New Mexico girls this week, including a 5-year-old Rio Rancho Elementary School student and an infant from Roosevelt County, the state Department of Health announced Thursday.
Neither child had chronic medical conditions that would have put them at heightened risk of complications from the illness, health officials said.
Trinity “Trin” Olivares, of Rio Rancho, died Monday evening (sept. 28 ), just a day after complaining of nausea, said the girl’s mother, Danelle Olivares, 31.
Trinity began feeling ill Sunday night and stayed home from school Monday as her nausea and vomiting became more severe, Olivares said. The girl’s parents took her to a hospital Monday afternoon, about three hours before her death.
Doctors said the girl was severely dehydrated and put her on intravenous fluids.
“She had no fever, no cough, no runny nose, no symptoms of the flu” other than nausea, Olivares said. The girl also enjoyed good health prior to Sunday night, her mother said.
“She was a very healthy little girl. She never got sick,” Olivares said.
Trinity also was keenly aware of discussion and news reports about swine flu and constantly washed her hands and even urged her mother to buy hand sanitizer, Olivares said.
Trinity recently started school at Rio Rancho Elementary after attending Shining Stars Preschool. Her father, Michael Olivares, supervises mail delivery at Rio Rancho Public Schools.
Funeral services were be held Friday, Oct. 2, St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Rio Rancho.
The Rio Rancho Public Schools district notified parents by a telephone notification system Thursday evening.
Kim Vesely, district spokeswoman, said the district also planned to send a letter to parents today notifying them about Trinity’s death.
Vesely said the New Mexico Department of Health informed the district that the child died of H1N1 flu, also known as swine flu, after the department ran a preliminary test.
Chris Minnick, spokesman for the Department of Health, said the Roosevelt County infant died this week, but he did not know what day.
The two deaths bring to seven the number of New Mexicans who have died of swine flu, and 85 have been hospitalized as of Thursday.
A 21-year-old Los Alamos County woman who had no chronic medical conditions is among those who have died. Others include a Sierra County woman, 45; a Bernalillo County woman, 52; a Bernalillo County man, 58; and a McKinley County woman, 48. All four had chronic medical conditions, health officials said.