H1N1 death: Annique, 20 year old from Pretoria

Apparently she felt even worse the next morning, but was discharged on August 11.

"She told me that she wouldn't be home on her 21st birthday, on August 31. I told her that was nonsense."

SHOOT: Seems that she really sensed how bad it was. To die of swine flu means your lungs fill up with fluid and you can't breathe. It is shocking that the hospital were so complacent, everyone was, except the patient.

clipped from www.news24.com "My baby girl was right all along, she didn't make her 21st birthday," said Christo Pretorius, 52, from Andeon, east of Pretoria, on Wednesday following the death of his daughter Annique, 20. Annique - the first confirmed H1N1 flu death in Gauteng - started feeling ill on August 8. "She was nauseous and her body ached. Kids can be overly dramatic sometimes, and at first I thought she was heating up her thermometer, but when I took her temperature, it was almost 40ºC." A day later she was admitted to the Pretoria West state hospital, where a doctor suspected H1N1 flu. Apparently she felt even worse the next morning, but was discharged on August 11. Pretorius took her back to the hospital that same night, since her fever was apparently still around 40ºC, and she was tested for H1N1 flu the next day. On Friday, Annique started having difficulty breathing, and X-rays were taken of her lungs. "The one lung was three-quarters white and the other was covered in spots."