Two-year-old boy dies from flu in Hong Kong, the first young death of city’s winter influenza season

A two-year-old boy has died from flu in Hong Kong – the first child fatality of this year’s winter influenza season. A Tuen Mun Hospital spokesman said the boy was admitted to its paediatric intensive care unit on January 20 after being treated at the accident and emergency department of Tin Shui Wai Hospital the same day. Paediatricians gave the boy Tamiflu – an antiviral medicine for the treatment of the illness – antibiotics and antiepileptic drugs. He was diagnosed...