There have already been a number of swine flu related deaths in Eretz Yisrael R”L and others have been diagnosed with the illness, some in serious and critical condition.

A 38-year-old woman died of swine flu complications this week and last week, a 26-year-old women died. Hospital officials on Thursday morning 26 Teves reported two other women are in critical condition with swine flu.

A 26-year-old woman from the Belze community remains in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in critical condition. The Belzer Rebbe Shlita has added the name Alta as a segulah for a recovery. The tzibur is asked to be mispallel for Alta Yocheved Yutel bas Chana bsoch kol cholei am yisrael. ( אלטע יוכבד יוטל בת חנה)

Mora D’asra of the Ramat Elchanan neighborhood of Bnei Brak, HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein Shlita told women attending a kenos chizuk that everyone should go for a flu vaccine as the illness this winter is claiming many lives.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)