A baby of 11 months, hospitalized at the Hospital Necker Sick Children in Paris since Friday, died Sunday morning of influenza A H1N1, said the AP-HP (Assistance Publique-Hospital DE Paris).

The child “died this morning of influenza A/H1N1 in the pediatric intensive care unit,” says the AP-HP in a statement.

The boy was “a land underlying severe cardiac involvement diagnosed at the age of three months,” he told reporters Sunday evening Professor Philippe Hubert, chief of pediatric intensive care unit at the Necker Hospital.

The child had been admitted to emergency in the night from Thursday to Friday in a hospital in the Paris region and then rapidly transferred to Necker temperature at 40 degrees and symptoms include coughing and vomiting.

The child was a disease of the myocardium (…) which could adversely evolve at a speed not known. The only therapeutic project forward if less brutal escalation of course would have been a heart transplant, said Professor Henderson.

33 patients infected with H1N1 pandemic died in France since the beginning of the epidemic: 8 in city and 25 overseas (9 in New Caledonia, French Polynesia 7, 6 to the Meeting, 1 Guyana, 1 in Martinique and 1 in Mayotte). This is the first death on a baby in France.

Mid-September, a baby of 18 months who already had a serious congenital disease, died in Martinique as a result of influenza H1N1.

For Professor Pierre Carli, President of the Necker medical community, death occurred Sunday “we remember that the flu kills and it will kill.” “This disease even if it seems benign for the vast majority of people who contract the serious cases exist. There are a few serious cases that affect people who are frail as a child who has suffered today ‘ hui but also quite random people healthy, “he said.

“All this reminds us that one of the best protections we have against common influenza, but also against the new flu is vaccination,” he assured Professor Carli.

For Professor Hubert, “much has been heard about the disadvantages of vaccination without relationship to the significantly higher risk that has the flu itself: either death – what God thank you remain rare but occur – either critical illness and prolonged hospitalization, “he said.

In France, the vaccination campaign against the H1N1 virus should start for the hospital staff priority in later this week. According to the list made public by the Prime Minister, Francois Fillon, in late September, the personal health priority are those working in the neonatal and pediatric intensive care or those exposed to patients with influenza or in contact with patients with risk factors.

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