The first deaths arrive from swine flu
Nov 25, 2009
By Rokas M. Tracevskis
VILNIUS - On Nov. 18, Lithuanian Health Care Minister Algis Caplikas announced the first victim of swine flu, which is known as the H1N1 virus. A 13-year old boy died in the Kaunas Medical University Clinics after six days of illness. On Nov. 23, a 40-year-old man in the north-eastern Lithuanian town of Visaginas died because of an H1N1 virus infection.
On Nov. 18, Arunas Skikas, vice-minister of the Health Care Ministry, and Vytautas Bakasenas, Lithuania’s chief epidemiologist, he ...
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