A 4-year-old girl is hospitalized in serious condition at the Assaf Harofeh Hospital near Rishon Lezion, with doctors attempting to determine whether the girl has swine flu.
One woman has died of swine flu and another ten people have been hospitalized with the disease. Four of them are on artificial respiration.
Four women are hospitalized at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba with the disease, three of them pregnant. The four women had come to Soroka complaining of flu symptoms. Tests showed they were infected with H1N1, popularly known as swine flu.
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Five women have been hospitalized in Jerusalem, the health ministry confirmed – three at Shaare Zedek, where one, a woman in her 40s, is on artificial respiration in the emergency ward and another, in her 20s, is being tested for the virus, according to news reports. One woman is hospitalized at the capital’s Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem and another at Hadassah, Mount Scopus. In central Israel, one person has been diagnosed with the flu at Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv and one at the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer in Ramat Gan, a Health Ministry spokesperson said.
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