According to officials from the Health Ministry, the woman traveled to the Unites States recently. She was admitted to hospital with a fever and cough in late August, and tested positive for the new flu on Aug. 25.
Healthy officials
Well, I'm glad some of us are still strong.
Healthy officials said the woman was in a high risk group because she suffered from high blood pressure. She had been receiving treatment for pneumonia since Wednesday and suffered multiple organ failure due to the new flu.
Doctors said man who died yesterday was also in a high risk group because he suffered from a chronic liver condition. He was admitted to a hospital on Aug. 24 with symptoms of coughing, a fever and difficulty breathing.
He was diagnosed with pneumonia and was put on Tamiflu on Aug. 26. He officially tested positive for the new influenza on Aug. 27.
According to health authorities, the man, who died at 1 p.m. yesterday, hadn’t been abroad recently. Officials suspect he had been infected with the flu through contacts in the local community.
The article says over 7,500 have been infected with the swine flu in South Korea as of the 10th, with seven still hospitalized. Additionally, another woman's brain death has been attributed to the flu.
* Update: The number is now at seven:
According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, a 78-year-old man, who has long suffered from liver cirrhosis, high blood pressure and other diseases, died in the day due to septicaemia caused by the A/H1N1 virus.
The exact cause of the death was still under investigation, the ministry said.
The seven so far have also suffered from other serious diseases.
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It seams to me that contracting H1N1 was just the straw that broke the donkeys back.
Most certainly, they would have died if they contracted the regular flu as well.
Got to have something to hype up in the news I suppose.
Meanwhile, editors are reporting newspaper sales as 'brisk', with sales of advertising space rising proportionally.
"As long as business is good, I'm couldn't really give a monkey's toss about causing undue hysteria or spreading disinformation," said "K", the editor of a national daily, yesterday.
My school is currently out due to two cases of H1N1. Of course, all the teachers are required to come sit around all week.. even the ones who have had DIRECT contact with the two 4th graders that have it.
At another school a friend of mine is subjected to daily temperature checks with an ear thermometer that ISN'T CLEANED between uses. That's over 500 kids with dirty ears transferring their germs around.
They are now temperature checking people at my fitness center.
If you have a high temperature then you are denied service there.
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