Spanish Health minstry confirmd seven deaths from heat stroke this summer 02/0972010

Health confirmed seven deaths from heat stroke this summer The latest victim, a man aged 38, died Sunday in Sevilla
EMILIO DE BENITO - Madrid - 02/09/2010
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This summer heat is breaking records in Spain, but health data do not show it. In July and August, the Ministry of Health reported that seven died of heat stroke, six of them in July. Nothing to do with the 141 who died in the summer of 2003.
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The first victim was a 24 year old Portuguese who died July 8 in Badajoz while playing football. The rest is a 55-year-Sevilla (it became known on July 8), a man of 88 years in Cáceres (July 9), a 73 in Linares (July 11), a German boy of 5 who had disappeared in Espiel (Córdoba) confirmed on July 24 and a 19 year old in A Coruña (July 28).
The death toll, however, includes only cases in which the medical certificate of the death directly attributable to heat, and not to deaths due to aggravation of other diseases due to high temperatures (diabetes, obesity, respiratory, circulatory). Returning to 2003, when the most famous heat wave, a year after it was estimated that the dead had been due to heat 6,112. This number was calculated by comparing the average number of deaths common in summer in previous years, and seeing the difference with those in her summer 2003.
This calculation method is used with all diseases. For example, when we say that every winter about 3,000 people die from flu in Spain is not because I put the certificates, but because the infection worsens other diseases. So given the number of deaths from influenza A can not be compared with other years, because in that case it is confirmed cases of influenza, and the other included all those directly attributed to influenza and those related. ...