Eighth Swine Flu death in Spain

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The 35 year old woman had an underlying health condition and was admitted to hospital on Sunday

A 35 year old woman who died from acute respiratory problems this Tuesday has become Spain’s eighth victim of the A(H1N1) virus and the first to have succumbed to the new flu in Cataluña.

The un-named patient died shortly after 1pm at the Josep Trueta Hospital in Girona, where she was transferred on Sunday after being seen by doctors at the hospital in Blanes.

She lived in Lloret de Mar and is understood to have had a serious underlying health problem. The Generalitat’s department of health is now studying the role the virus could have played in the progression of the medical condition which caused the patient’s death.

El Mundo meanwhile reports a third serious case in the region, a 31 year old man with no previous health problems, who has been in Intensive Care at the hospital in Sant Pau since 28th July. His condition is serious, but stable. The two other cases are in the Joan XXIII Hospital in Tarragona and the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona.

Two other serious cases under ICU treatment in Barcelona and Tarragona have recently been moved out of Intensive Care.