Baby the first to die from Swine flu in Argentina UPDATES

by Suranee | June 15, 2009 at 07:41 pm

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UPDATE 1:

Argentina has confirmed a new death from swine flu raising the number of deaths in the country to seven.

Argentina's health authorities has confirmed a new death from swine flu, raising the country's total to seven.

In an article released on the momento24.com website revealed the seventh person to die of swine flu in Argentina was a pregnant woman, and the doctors were able to save the baby.

She is the seventh fatal victim in Argentina because of H1N1 virus. Fortunately the doctors managed to save the baby.

This woman adds to the list of six dead people for the H1N1 flu, which was released yesterday in the usual daily medical report of National and privincial Health authorities.

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A baby, no more than than 3-months old died of Swine flu in Argentina on Monday. The Health Minister confirmed that this was the first death in Argentina of Swine flu.

Health Minister, Graciela Ocaña, confirmed the first death in Argentina of Swine flu. A three months old premature baby, after being hospitalized in Intensive Care of the Posadas Hospital, died.

Officials said they cannot confirm how the baby got the virus.

Argentine officials said they did not know exactly how the baby was infected with the virus, which contains genetic material from bird, swine and human flu viruses.

There are around 733 people with Swine flu in Argentina at present.

In its daily report, the health ministry said that the number of people in Argentina infected with the swine flu has reached 733, after 89 new cases were confirmed on Monday.