Child, nine, with swine flu dies
Tuesday 7th July 2009, 9:24AM BST.
A nine-year-old child has died after contracting swine flu, health officials said.
The child, from south London, had “serious underlying health problems”, according to a spokesman for NHS London.
It brings the total number of deaths of people with swine flu in the UK to five.
London, along with the West Midlands, is a swine flu hotspot.
The child is the second person in the capital to die after a 19-year-old man, also from south London and with serious underlying health problems, died last week.
A further three people with swine flu have died in the UK and all had underlying health problems.
Jacqui Fleming, 38, of Glasgow, was the first after contracting the virus last month, two weeks after her son, Jack, was born 11 weeks prematurely. Jack died later but had not contracted the virus.
The second victim was a 73-year-old man from the Inverclyde area of Scotland.
The youngest UK victim was six-year-old Sameerah Ahmad.
Sameerah, who was born with a rare life-threatening disease, died at Birmingham’s Children’s Hospital after contracting swine flu, although it is unclear if it contributed to her death.
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