A 14-year-old girl died this week from swine flu. She was healthy for that time, according to the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM).
It is the first time in the Netherlands that someone has died from the H1N1 virus , without this person already suffering from another serious illness. According to the RIVM, healthy people also die in other countries from the effects of the Mexican flu.
The spokesperson for the RIVM could not say anything about the course of the disease in the 14-year-old girl † The institute is very reluctant to provide information about individual cases. A 40-year-old man also died last week with the Swine flu He had been seriously ill for some time.
The number of people in our country who have died from this flu has risen to six.
Influenza epidemic
In the Netherlands there is officially an epidemic of swine flu RIVM confirmed. There is an official flu epidemic because GPs counted more than 55 people in every 100,000 Dutch people with flu-like complaints for two weeks in a row.
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