A 34-year-old mother of 10 from Beit Shemesh died Sunday afternoon at Hadassah Ein-Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem from complications associated with the H1N1 swine-flu virus. She was the 23rd person and the first pregant woman to die in Israel after having been diagnosed with the disease. Another woman gave birth and recovered.
The woman, who had been in the advanced stages of pregnancy, was brought to the hospital after it was discovered that the fetus she was carrying was dead. When the staff tried to induce labor, her condition deteriorated.
The Health Ministry announced that women in the second two thirds of their pregancies will be among the first to receive the vaccine against the virus when it becomes available next month.