Ayutthaya man succumbs
A 45-year-old male resident of Ayutthaya province succumbed to complications from several diseases yesterday and was suspected to have become the latest victim of the type-A (H1N1) influenza. Health authorities, however, kept the number of fatalities unchanged at 15.
The Ayutthaya resident was admitted to hospital last Monday after four days of high fever, with multiple symptoms, including high fever, pneumonia, high blood pressure, malfunctioning kidney and heart, and leptospirosis, said Dr Paichit Varachit, deputy permanent secretary for public health.
He added that an initial test showed the man had the type-A (H1N1) virus.
Paichit said the cause of the death could not be immediately determined but it could be known within a week after an autopsy.
The Ministry of Public Health yesterday said the number of H1N1 virus patients increased by another 157, raising the total to 3,228.
Six patients having the type-A H1N1 virus remained under close medical supervision, Paichit said.
The ministry confirmed that a 63-year-old woman hospitalised with the virus a week ago had died in Samut Prakan province.
It also said the virus could spread to up to 30 million Thais and there could be about 1,200 fatalities if the infection continued to spread for three years.
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