Warning over flu after child fatality

Flu can be a very dangerous disease, a HSE medical official warned after it emerged that a child died from flu last week.

The child, who has not been identified, died last week in a Dublin hospital after contracting the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu.

The HSE, who would only confirm that the child was not from Dublin, warned that flu rates were continuing to rise and were expected to do so for one to two more weeks.