The first death involving the A(H1N1) virus had been confirmed in the Philippines and is the first death in Asia. It’s a 49 year old woman who had died from her congestive heart failure but was also tested to be positive with the pandemic virus.

The heart disease of the patient was only aggravated by severe pneumonia and had only shown signs of the virus 2 days before she died on June 19.

The A(H1N1) virus had reached the pandemic alert and it’s the first flu pandemic over 40 years as declared by WHO.  It infected thousands of people now in 74 countries including the Philippines.

From 1, 2 and now up to 14 victims of Swine Flu A(H1N1) virus in the Philippines. We’ve been proud for not having the virus in our country after many countries already reported several cases with some having mortalities. Since the first child that was reported to have gotten the virus, it just kept increasing by numbers.

The A(H1/N1) virus has a second victim here in the Philippines. It’s a 50-year-old woman whose identity and nationality is still withheld had contacted the virus. She arrived from Chicago last Wednesday and the day later she suffered from symptoms like mild fever and headache then she immediately went to the hospital.

Alert of the pandemic, she is then tested and was treated with Tamiflu which is an antiviral drug that is used to treat swine flu victims and she seems to be recovering quite well in a hospital.  11 of her relatives were advised not to leave their house so they would see if they also would develop the symptoms.

37 people had already been released after they had been tested negative of the A(H1N1) virus while one child, a 4 year old, is still under observation and hopefully the result will be out soon whether or not she has the dreaded virus or not.

Mario Villaverde, the Health Undersecretary, said that the 4 year old is still in quarantine after traveling from the United States where there were 3 deaths in total out of the 2,600 confirmed cases. The girl from the Bicol region is being observed in Alabang, Muntinlupa at the RITM or the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine.

A couple had been quarantined in VSMMC when the thermal scanner showed that the husband is currently having a fever. The wife is sitting beside him on their flight from Ireland to Hong Kong and as precautionary, she too was quarantined.  A woman from Britain admitted herself because she suspects she may have the swine flu virus. The woman had been to Mexico then Hong Kong before she came to Cebu City. She developed cough and flu which got her worried which is why she wanted to make sure if she has the virus or not.