Evidence of swine flu risk to pregnant women rises

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Budapest, Hungary

http://english.mti.hu/default.asp?menu=1&theme=2&cat=25&newsid=266301

A pregnant woman carrying the H1N1 virus has died at a hospital of Szeged University (S), Zsolt Molnar, head of the clinic told MTI on Monday.

The 40-year-old woman had been hospitalised with pneumonia and other complications over four weeks ago.

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Faifley, Scotland

http://www.clydebankpost.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2009/12/09/394882-swine-flu-kills-mum/

A young mum has died of swine flu - which she contracted just days after giving birth to her second child.

Marianne Johnston, 20, was otherwise fit and healthy according to her family, who are still coming to terms with how quickly the virus took her.

Within five weeks of giving birth to son Leon, Marianne was dead, leaving behind the newborn, one-year-old Jay and partner William.

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Harazdan, Armenia

http://www.panorama.am/en/health/2009/12/14/ah1n1/

Armenia has confirmed 2 A/H1N1 death cases, one of them being a pregnant woman in her 6th month, the other one a 28-year youth.

According to the chief infectiologist Ara Asoyan, the latter was a Yerevan resident, he died in Nork infection clinic, while the former, as the deputy director of the Medical Center in the city of Hrazdan Sasun Hovhannisyan said, was a Hrazdan resident and died after she was taken to Erebouni medical center.

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Gharbia Governorate, Egypt

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/20/content_12674738.htm

A 35-year-old pregnant woman died of A/H1N1 virus in Gharbia governorate, 140 km north of Cairo, said the statement, adding that the woman suffered from dyspnea and fever.

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Beersheba, Israel

http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2009/12/israel-73-deaths.html

A 28-year-old pregnant woman who was not suffering from any other serious health ailments died from the H1N1 virus Wednesday afternoon.

The woman died at Beersheba's Soroka University Medical Center.

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Malaga, Spain

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_24517.shtml?

The health authority has this week confirmed the death from the H1N1 virus of a 26 year old pregnant woman who Diario Sur reports this Tuesday did not appear to have suffered an underlying health condition. She died in Málaga's Materno Infantil Hospital at the beginning of last week, after being admitted to Intensive Care when her condition steadily worsened, despite treatment to combat the virus.

An emergency Caesarean was performed to try and save the life of her unborn child, but the child is reported to have died the day after the operation was carried out.

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Morificeille, France

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Not a great translation, but we can get that the mother was placed on ECMO. Both mother and child

have survived:

Influenza A: hospitalized for a month, the young mother discovers her child at Christmas

MorificeILLE - A pregnant woman hospitalized in late November in Morificeilles when she was diagnosed with a severe form of influenza A was finally able to see her child December 24, after undergoing delivery by emergency Caesarean section and being placed in an artificial coma for several days, "on Tuesday with the AP-HM.

The young woman, aged 22 years and eight months pregnant, suffered a "very serious form of influenza caused by H1N1 virus," explains Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Morificeille (AP-HM) in a statement.

First sent to hospital in Avignon, she joined the Hospital de la Conception in Morificeille where she was placed on a respirator and has undergone emergency, a cesarean delivery.

The premature infant was placed in an incubator a few days while his mother's condition worsened. "She had a very advanced form of syndrome of acute respiratory distress (ARDS) caused by influenza," said the AP-HM.

It was then placed on a respirator bypass connected to a device that purifies the carbon dioxide from his blood and oxygen enrichment. ( ECMO )

After the admission of the young mother in intensive care at the Hôpital Sainte-Marguerite, this assistance was terminated December 9 and the patient was gradually awakened from the coma in which he had been diving.

On December 24, any respiratory support was withdrawn and she was able for the first time, take her child in her arms. She is currently continuing his recovery, said the AP-HM.

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Georgian Republic

http://en.trend.az/regions/scaucasus/georgia/1610490.html

A 23-year-old woman died in labor from the swine flu in Georgia.

According to the Georgian National Center for Disease Control, laboratory studies will soon determine for certain which virus killed Nana Gelashvili.

Gelashvili was taken to a hospital in Kutaisi two days ago with double pneumonia.

So far nine people have died from the swine flu in Georgia. A total of 1,075 have been infected.

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Sandoval, Illinois

http://www.wjbdradio.com/?f=news_single&id=19766

A 30-year-old Sandoval woman has died, apparently from complications that began when she caught the H1N1 flu virus around Thanksgiving. Friends say Amber Ward was transferred almost immediately to Barnes Hospital in St. Louis where she lost her battle on Tuesday. As Amber's situation worsened, her son Chase was induced and born just 29 weeks into her pregnancy. He is reportedly doing well at Children's Hospital in St. Louis where he now weighs just over three pounds. Chase will be allowed to come home once he weighs five pounds. Amber also leaves her husband and five other young children at home. They are 13-year-old Dallas, eight-year-old Ashlynn, five-year-old Gavin, three-year-old Cohen and ten-month old Beilei. Amber was a licensed practical nurse at the Odin Care Center. Friends are trying to raise money for a trust fund for the family. The fund is in the name of Amber's father, Dale Tucker of Salem, at Marion County Savings Bank. Donations can be left at the bank. Meanwhile, the Marion County Health Department is still trying to obtain additional information before issuing a statement on the death.

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If it can be acurately reflected, this LPN, Amber, may have a workers' compensation benefit...... for her family, if a patient with whom she worked at Odin had H1N1..........especially if correct PPE wasn't available.........

It would be good if her widower contacted a workers' comp lawyer, once the shock passes. I don't know if flutrackers intervenes in the cases they support, but I'll email the bank with my view of this.

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Tarbes, France

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=332871&postcount=1

A young pregnant woman of 24 years died as a result of the virus influenza A H1N1. Native of Tarbes, she was hospitalized last December 18 at the Hospital de Bigorre. Before a condition deemed serious, doctors Tarbais had decided to transfer to the resuscitation department of Rangueil, Toulouse.

Despite two weeks of intensive care to try to save the young woman, but also the baby, doctors Toulouse failed to keep alive the young woman ( and the baby) who died at the gates of the New Year

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Southern Taiwan

http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1147330&lang=eng_news

A 25-year-old pregnant woman has been hospitalized with influenza A (H1N1), making her the ninth such case recorded in Taiwan since the outbreak began last year, a Department of Health (DOH) official said Monday.

The woman in southern Taiwan was 34 weeks into her pregnancy when she began to show flu-like symptoms, such as a fever and sore throat, on Dec. 27, said Shih Wen-yi, deputy director-general of the DOH's Centers for Disease Control.

She tested positive for the H1N1 virus Dec. 28 and her unborn baby was found to have died Dec. 29, Shih said. He added that the woman is recuperating at a hospital after having a stillbirth Dec. 31.

As a certain percentage of pregnant woman may suffer miscarriages, Shih said it remains unknown whether the woman's miscarriage was caused by the H1N1 infection or other factors. The woman had not been immunized against the H1N1 virus.

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