According to Kathimerini daily, a seven-month-old baby of Libyan background died in an Athens Children’s hospital on Friday, after being infected with the H1N1 flu virus.
This is the first such fatal incident reported in Greece in 2012. According to the attending doctors, the baby boy had been infected with the virus back in Libya, but doctors there failed to diagnose the virus and only treated him with the usual antibiotics.
The second case of swine flu that broke out recently in Greece concerns a woman from Ukraine that is being treated in another hospital for pneumonia.
The 2009 worldwide pandemic has caused a total of more than 100 victims in Greece only in 2011, while experts believe the country is not directly threatened by the virus this year but suggest to all vulnerable groups to proceed with the anti-virus vaccination to decrease possibilities of infection.
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