A pregnant woman infected with the A / H1N1 virus, popularly known as the swine flu virus, died five days after being admitted to the hospital, Egypt’s foreign ministry said on Sunday.
A 31-year-old woman, whose identity was not given, was admitted to the hospital on November 18. She showed symptoms typical of flu; when she stopped responding to treatment, she was placed in the intensive care unit, said Hossam spokesman Abdel Ghaffar.
We thought it was bird flu, but the patient was tested for swine flu and tested positive, he added.
Two people died of bird flu in Egypt last week.
The A / H1N1 flu pandemic broke out in the spring of 2009, and the World Health Organization announced its end in August of the following year. During this time, the virus killed nearly 18,5 thousand. people in the world.
Swine flu is an acute infectious disease of the respiratory system, the infection is carried out as with ordinary flu, by droplets (sneezing, coughing) and by contact with the secretions from the respiratory tract of the patient. Typical symptoms of the disease include headache, elevated temperature, breaking bones and joints, chills, coughing, runny nose, and often loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. (PAP)