Yangtze Evening News reported on November 3 that the Health Department of Hunan Province announced the first severe case of H1N1 influenza A in Hunan. The patient, who died at 18:00 on October 31, was found to have cerebral hemorrhage, brain herniation and circulatory and respiratory failure. The patient, a 14-year-old student from a middle school in Changning City, Hunan Province, developed fever and other flu-like symptoms on October 2. His condition did not improve after treatment at the Central Hospital of Changning City, so he was transferred to the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanhua University on October 7. He was diagnosed with septic shock and dysfunction of multiple organs including the liver and kidney upon admission. On the same day, he was tested positive for H1N1 nucleic acid, and became the first severe case of H1N1 influenza A reported in Hunan Province. After all-out rescue efforts, his virus nucleic acid turned negative, but because his disease progressed quickly and he had been suffering from dysfunction of multiple organs including the liver, kidney, heart and lung when admitted to hospital...