A police officer from the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde whose disease had doctors initially abandoned mystery, died from the effects of flu. This was announced by the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), the district spokesman Martin Schmedtje on Wednesday. The 49-year-old police officer from Bay Audorf had been hospitalized in the past week the UKE and died there on Tuesday.
Doctors and experts from the health department had been looking for the origin of his disease - was first mentioned by an unknown virus. Do not give a connection with other illnesses in the community well-Audorf it emphasized Schmedtje.
Second policeman lies further UKE
A second officer, who should also come from well-Audorf lies further in the UKE.He is now on the road to recovery, it said. He came in last week with the same symptoms as the deceased at the Hamburg University Hospital. Schaucht-Audorfs Mayor Eckhard Reese warned against scaremongering. "We are experiencing not only in our city, that the flu disease has increased over the normal number out. Therefore we should keep quiet at this stage," he said. http://www.ndr.de/regional/schleswig-holstein/polizist171.html