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Macedonia: Swine Flu Takes First Toll
Skopje | 19 November 2009 |
A 32-years old man who died on Wednesday afternoon is the first swine flu victim in Macedonia, the Health Minister Bujar Osmani confirmed.
The man was hospitalized at the Skopje Infection Disease Clinic on Monday with high fever and breathing problems and had to be put on a respiratory machine, he explained.
The health condition of another patient, an elderly woman, has also worsened, the minister said. She too has been put on a respiratory machine but the situation is complicated due to her already existing heart weakness.
Macedonia said it will stop issuing daily reports on the pandemic flu, after the number of infected reached almost 400. Doctors are advised to treat each case of flu with caution and to immediately treat it as a swine flu infection.
Only in the last 24 hours, the Infectious Disease Clinic has hospitalized nine out of 28 newly registered patients, reports say.
Meanwhile the potentially deadly disease has already taken its first victims in the neighboring Balkan states. Bulgaria Turkey, Greece, Albania, Croatia and Serbia have already seen several swine flu related deaths in the past month.
Kosovo also registered its first victim on Saturday.
The man was hospitalized at the Skopje Infection Disease Clinic on Monday with high fever and breathing problems and had to be put on a respiratory machine, he explained.
The health condition of another patient, an elderly woman, has also worsened, the minister said. She too has been put on a respiratory machine but the situation is complicated due to her already existing heart weakness.
Macedonia said it will stop issuing daily reports on the pandemic flu, after the number of infected reached almost 400. Doctors are advised to treat each case of flu with caution and to immediately treat it as a swine flu infection.
Only in the last 24 hours, the Infectious Disease Clinic has hospitalized nine out of 28 newly registered patients, reports say.
Meanwhile the potentially deadly disease has already taken its first victims in the neighboring Balkan states. Bulgaria Turkey, Greece, Albania, Croatia and Serbia have already seen several swine flu related deaths in the past month.
Kosovo also registered its first victim on Saturday.
