Via The Local: Three more swine flu deaths include one previously healthy patient. Excerpt:
Three more people died of the A/H1N1 virus in Germany on Friday, including for the first time, a person with no underlying health problems, authorities reported.
Perhaps of most concern for the wider population is the death of a 48-year-old woman in Bonn, who died on Friday morning. She had not suffered from any other health problems, according to a spokesman for the Bonn University Hospital, where she was treated in the intensive care unit before she died. Doctors are so far unable to explain why the virus made her so ill.
A five-year-old boy from Saarbrücken died in the afternoon, yet the health authorities in the state added that he was severely disabled and had suffered lung problems before becoming infected with the so-called swine flu.
A 16-year-old boy also died on Friday, in the Augsburg Central Hospital, Bavaria. A report in the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper said he was severely disabled.
