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Fifth Death From Swine Flu

A 60 year old man has died from Swine flu, bringing the death toll in Sweden from the AH1NI virus to five. The man was found dead in his flat in Örebro in central Sweden. He'd been off work sick for a week. Tests showed that the primary cause of death was cardiac arrest, brought on by the flu.

Meanwhile a 14 year old boy is on a respirator in hospital after falling severely ill from the virus. According to the latest figures from the Institute for Infectious Disease, 51 people are currently in hospital being treated for Swine Flu in Sweden. Three of these are on respirators and one on an artificial lung machine.

Six confirmed deaths from fluThe man in Örnsköldsvik is the sixth confirmed death related to swine influenza A/H1N1. The others are:

Man in his 40s from the Uppsala region. Died on 28 August.
Man in 55-year-olds in Västerås. Died on 3 September.
Male, 48 years, from Orebro. Was found dead at his home on 31 October.
Man in his 50s in Tjörn. Died on 2 November.
Man in 60s from Örebro County. Was found dead at his home in early November.
Moreover, died a swine influenza infected three-year boy in Stockholm on October 31, but autopsy results have not yet given an answer to whether the child died as a result of the flu or any other reason.

Same mutation as in Norway has been found in two cases in Sweden.
They only say that this new one "goes deeper into the lungs" and the authorities in Sweden are not afraid of it.

In Sweden, the variant was detected in two patients who were cared for in ECMO in July and in August.

Sweden confirms 14 swine flu deaths
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Three women and eleven men have died from the swine flu in Sweden since August, according to the country’s disease control authorities.

On Monday, Sweden’s Institute for Infections Disease Control (Smittskyddsinstitutet – SMI) published an accounting of all Swedes the agency has confirmed died from the A/H1N1 virus.

“We’re expecting more deaths, but hopefully fewer than we excepted at the beginning,” said SMI epidemiologist Andreas Heddini to the TT news agency, who added that the agency had expected more swine flu fatalities than have been reported thus far.

Among those who have died from the swine flu are a 3-year-old boy and 16-year-old boy, both of whom were members of a known risk group.

Most of Sweden’s swine flu victims have been above 50-years-old and the majority also belonged to a known risk group.

Three of eleven males who have died didn’t belong to a group known to have a higher risk for contracting the disease.

Sweden’s first confirmed death from the A/H1N1 virus, a 37-year-old man from Uppsala, was recorded the week of August 24th.

Eleven of Sweden’s fourteen swine flu fatalities have occurred in the last month, with the latest confirmed death, a 21-year-old woman from Östergötland in southeastern Sweden, coming during the week of November 16th.

While the 3-year-old was the youngest victim, Sweden’s oldest swine flu victim so far was a 71-year-old woman from Västernorrland in northern Sweden.

The deaths also have a wide geographic distribution, from Västernorrland in the north to Skåne in the south. The county with the most confirmed swine flu deaths is Stockholm, with three, followed by Uppsala, Örebro, and Västernorrland counties, each of which have had two fatalities attributed to the swine flu.

Sweden confirms 15 swine flu deaths
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The fifteenth victim, a 3-year-old boy who died at the weekend, was not included in the report.
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