The Focus news agency reported today that a 51 year old man from Naples is the first Italian victim to die of Swine Flu (H1N1 virus). Although the man's identity is being kept private, the Cotugno hospital did report that the man had pre-exisiting pancreatic diabetes and cardiac myopathy which aggravated the swine flu symptoms and eventually led to pneumonia and a staph infection which he did not recover from.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, the 51 year old man had lived with his mother and had not traveled abroad.
Despite talk of possible school closings, schools in Italy are scheduled to open as planned around the fifteenth of September.
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