Via BBC News: Woman with swine flu dies in Northern Ireland. Excerpt:
A woman with swine flu has died in Northern Ireland.
The woman had underlying medical conditions. Her death was announced in the Department of Health’s weekly swine flu update.
To date, 20 people from Northern Ireland who had swine flu have died. Eighteen of them died in NI, one in England and one in Spain.
Overall, swine flu consultations, detections and hospitalisations are continuing to decline.
This was welcomed by Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride, although he said he was concerned this could “lead to complacency”.
“I must reinforce the importance of vaccination of those in the at-risk groups,” he said.
