Via Channel NewsAsia: Five-year-old boy dies of H1N1 flu. Excerpt:
A five-year-old boy has become the latest - and one of the youngest - person to die from the Influenza A (H1N1) virus here.
He was admitted to KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) and was said to have caught the virus from his uncle.
The boy was in critical condition over the Lunar New Year holidays. It is not clear when he died, as KKH was unable to provide details at press time.
It is also not known if his uncle has recovered. The death is possibly the first since the Ministry of Health (MOH) downgraded its H1N1 flu alert status from yellow to green on February 12.
Before this, the youngest reported H1N1 victim in Singapore was a two-year-old boy, who died in November last year.
MOH stopped reporting H1N1 fatalities after the virus was treated as part of the seasonal flu strains circulating in the community.
As of September, the number of H1N1 deaths stood at 18.
