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Prague - The Czech Republic has to date 258 cases of swine flu. So far 15 cases of recent infection with Pandemic (H1N1) in 2009 endorsed the National Reference Laboratory for Influenza in the State Health Institute in the last four days, on its Web site informs the Ministry of Health. The latest cases, he said appeared in Prague and the regions Ústí nad Labem, Liberec, Jihomoravský, Moravia and Southern Bohemia.

First death linked to influenza H1N1 in the Czech Republic
PRAGUE - A hospital in Karlovy Vary (west) recorded the first death related to influenza H1N1 in the Czech Republic, that of a woman who also suffered other health problems, said Thursday his spokesman, Zdenka Markova.

"A patient with severe chronic disease and influenza H1N1 confirmed, died today after a brief hospitalization at the department of anesthesia and resuscitation," said the spokesperson in a news brief published by the hospital.

Another patient with influenza H1N1 has also been admitted to hospital in Karlovy Vary, in a serious condition, she said.

"A patient with a virus of H1N1 found hospitalized at the intensive care unit of the department of anesthesia and resuscitation," reads the text does not specify the age of two patients.

Hygiene measures were taken to the hospital, acted as spokesman.

"The patient was seriously ill. His condition was not serious as the flu. She suffered from heart problems including," said Ms. Markova had earlier in the day, the Czech agency CTK.

"The flu has complicated his condition, unfortunately, with fatal consequences," she added.

For its part, the Czech Ministry of Health has refused initially to confirm this information.

In the Czech Republic from Thursday reported another 37 cases of new disease virus A (H1N1), influenza, or Mexican, had notified the Ministry of Health. Total in the Czech Republic has 351 people fell ill, one patient died

Cheb - The Karlovy Vary regional authority today ordered to close the local secondary school in Cheb where three students contracted swine flu and another 270 students have been taken ill with viral diseases.......In all, 730 students attend the school

- A Czech "middle age" the virus of the H1N1 flu died Friday at a hospital in Ostrava (north-east), bringing to two the number of deaths from this disease in the Czech Republic, announced Saturday the hospital.

"The average patient age died yesterday after spending a week at the Infectious Disease Department of our hospital," said the press spokesman of the institution, Tomas Oborny.

The man died of pneumonia which was a "consequence of influenza H1N1," said the spokesman.

The first fatal case of H1N1 in the Czech Republic was that of a woman who died October 22 at a hospital in Karlovy Vary (West), who also suffered other health problems.

Three schools were temporarily closed Thursday because of flu H1N1, for the first time in Czech Republic.

Fifth patient dies of swine flu
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A 45-year-old foreigner died yesterday probably of swine flu, the fifth person to die in the country in connection with the infection, Valasske Mezirici hospital spokesman Tomas Zelazko has told CTK.

The man did not suffer demonstrably of any other disease Zelazko said.

The foreigner was hospitalised on November 10 and "his condition was very serious from then," Zelazko said.

He said another swine flu patient has been treated in the hospital.

"His condition si improving, but further development is difficult to predict," Zelazko said.

Four people including the one in Valasske Mezirici yesterday have died of swine flu and one man who also suffered of swine flu died of leukaemia that was the primary cause of death in his case.

A total of 633 people in the ten million Czech Republic were demonstrably infected with swine flu as from Friday.
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Chief sanitary officer Michael Vit expects a swine flu epidemic to erupt in the first week of December.

“There are two possibilities - one of those mutations is that people will develop a resistance to the antivirus – particularly Tamiflu – and the second is that we will have a more serious disease to combat- which seems to be happening now. It is necessary to monitor the situation very carefully – in some countries we already have clusters of deaths and clusters of more serious cases.”