Flu epidemic claims its first victim

Type B influenza is responsible for the death of a man, aged 35, from the Bratislava Region.

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Influenza type B, unusually wide-spread this season, has claimed the life of a man aged 35 from the Bratislava Region, the Pravda daily wrote on February 17, without offering more details. It quoted the main public-health officer of Slovakia, Ján Mikas. This is the first victim of the flu epidemic and it is not clear whether the man also suffered from other health issues.

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Also, two patients have been hospitalised with serious respiratory ailments – a man aged 52 from the Trenčín Regin and a man aged 37 from the Trnava region.

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Last week, 21,735 cases of flu were reported in Slovakia: the most in the Nitra Region and the fewest in the Košice Region. Because of the epidemic, 198 elementary schools, 42 secondary schools, 157 nursery schools and 13 joint nursery- and elementary schools have been closed, Pravda reported.

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