A SHANGHAI football fan who stayed up for three nights to catch the World Cup action died after suffering a brain hemorrhage while watching a match.
The 39-year-old Ronald Jones II Jersey , surnamed Zhou, was rushed to the Shanghai No. 10 People’s Hospital at 3am on Sunday after having a stroke caused by brain stem hemorrhage. He was pronounced dead at 9pm that night.
According to Gao Liang, director of the hospital’s neurosurgery department, the patient had a history of high blood pressure.
Relatives said Zhou was a keen football fan and had already stayed up for the two previous nights watching the games held in Brazil.
Zhou was sitting on his sofa at home watching the match between Uruguay and Costa Rica in the early hours of Sunday when he suddenly collapsed.
Gao said people with high blood pressure and heart conditions are more vulnerable to brain hemorrhages when events make them excited or emotional.
Shanghai’s hospitals reported an larger number of emergency cases than usual last weekend — the first weekend of the World Cup. These included football fans feeling the effects of staying up late and sacrificing sleep to watch the tournament.
Unsociable hours
According to an accident and emergency doctor at the Huashan Hospital, they saw the number of patients increase by 50 percent over the weekend.
Some 40 percent had respiratory or stomach problems Vita Vea Jersey , often caused by irregular eating and sleeping patterns.
The 11-hour time difference between China and Brazil means 2014 FIFA World Cup matches are kicking off at unsociable hours for China’s football fans.
Most group games start at midnight, 3am, 4am and 6am, leaving Chinese fans struggling to balance their football fix with their daily routine.
“I’ve been watching games every day for the past three days, mostly the 3am and 6am games Cheap Buccaneers Hats ,” said Liu Yitao, a 29-year-old white collar worker.
Liu admitted that by yesterday he was feeling tired at work and now plans only to watch group stage games at weekends.
Fellow fan Shen Jing also planned a selective strategy.
“I’ll pick the important games to watch live, and follow the rest through the news or TV reruns of matches,” she said.
Other parts of the country have also reported deaths linked to the World Cup.
On Saturday, a 50-year-old driver Cheap Buccaneers T-Shirts , who is said to have stayed up all night watching the football, and four passengers died when their vehicle collided with a bus in a tunnel in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province.
And Suzhou and Dalian each reported a case of a fan dying while watching games.
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The mission described the meeting as ""collaborative and positive,"" where the joint Libyan committee members stressed the need for a consensus between parties ""for the common good and towards a promising, prosperous future they aspire to realize.""
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The joint committee is composed of representatives of Libya's House of Representatives and the Higher Council of State. The meeting is to help introduce amendments to the current political agreement.
It is the first stage of a road map proposed by the head of the mission Salame last week at the high-level meeting on Libya in New York, in order to end the current political crisis of Libya.
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Despite signing a UN-sponsored peace agreement and appointment of a unity government, Libya has been struggling to make a democratic transition following the 2011 uprising that toppled former leader Muammar Gaddafi's regime.
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