Over 2,000 Israelis have been infected with swine flu, Health Ministry officials confirm. At present, three patients remain in serious condition in ICU units nationwide. On Thursday, three people died as a result of swine flu or related complications from the illness.

Health officials late Thursday night reported the man in his 40s who died in Beilinson Hospital did not die as a direct cause of swine flu but health experts are not ruling out that the illness may have significantly contributed to a general weakening of the chronically ill man’s condition, leading to his death.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)