Jerusalem, Sep 14 (DPA) A 33-year-old mother of ten children, in her 39th week of pregnancy, died in Jerusalem from swine flu, Israel’s health ministry said Monday.
The woman with flu symptoms and a history of obesity, arrived at a Jerusalem hospital Sunday, where tests showed her foetus had died.
She delivered the foetus, but as her condition deteriorated, she was transferred to another hospital where she was diagnosed with swine flu.
More than 3,000 people have been diagnosed with swine flu in Israel, and 11 remain in intensive care.
