A man aged 31 has died in Andalusia by complications from a mutation of the influenza virus A, ‘D222G’, becoming the second death in Spain by this alteration of the H1N1 virus first detected in Norway, as reports in its latest weekly report from the National Epidemiological Surveillance Network of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III.
This patient, who had no medical history, eventually dying of multiple organ failure after several complications, reports the monitoring system sentinel physicians, which however does not specify the time of death. However, sources with the Ministry of Health and Social Policy, consulted by Europa Press, claim that this mutation is “expected” behavior according to each year have the flu virus. (more…)