Dead girl "didn't have swine flu"

Kosovo’s Health Ministry has announced that the young girl who died in Pristina two days ago was not suffering from the H1N1 swine flu virus. The ministry said that the World Health Organization (WHO) had sent it the results of tests carried out on Valdeta Idrizi, who died in Pristina on the night of May 5/6 of the suspected type A virus. Dead girl "didn't have swine flu" “The final analysis shows that she did not have the type A (H1N1) flu virus,“ said the ministry. Despite the negative test results, health institutions in Kosovo have taken precautionary measures in the village of Stubla, near Vitina, where the deceased lived. The measures include regular checks of the health of members of her family. Serbian Health Minister Tomica Milosavljevic said yesterday that the laboratory at the Torlak Institute for Immunology and Virusology in Belgrade had established that the girl who died in Pristina had not contracted the H1N1 virus. “After reaching an agreement with the World Health Organization’s national office in Belgrade, the Torlak Institute laboratory conducted testing of a sample from the patient who died in Pristina of suspected swine flu. Testing was carried out in cooperation with, and at the request of, the WHO office in Belgrade,“ said Milosavljevic. The dead girl returned to Kosovo from Switzerland on April 27. On May 5 she was transferred from Vitina municipality to the Pristina University clinic with symptoms of flu, as well as heart and lung problems that are characteristic of swine flu.

Dead girl "didn't have swine flu"

“The final analysis shows that she did not have the type A (H1N1) flu virus,“ said the ministry.

Despite the negative test results, health institutions in Kosovo have taken precautionary measures in the village of Stubla, near Vitina, where the deceased lived.

The measures include regular checks of the health of members of her family.

Serbian Health Minister Tomica Milosavljević said yesterday that the laboratory at the Torlak Institute for Immunology and Virusology in Belgrade had established that the girl who died in Priština had not contracted the H1N1 virus.

“After reaching an agreement with the World Health Organization’s national office in Belgrade, the Torlak Institute laboratory conducted testing of a sample from the patient who died in Priština of suspected swine flu. Testing was carried out in cooperation with, and at the request of, the WHO office in Belgrade,“ said Milosavljević.

The dead girl returned to Kosovo from Switzerland on April 27. On May 5 she was transferred from Vitina municipality to the Priština University clinic with symptoms of flu, as well as heart and lung problems that are characteristic of swine flu.