Just hours after reporting the tragic news of this 25-year-old in Suzhou who died after staying up all night to watch the Netherlands 5-1 mauling of Spain on Friday, the Shanghai Daily reports that 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, 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.
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, often caused by irregular eating and sleeping patterns.
A China Daily report goes on to say that another fan died under similar circumstances in Dalian.
Another man, 51-year-old Li Mingqiang, who used to be a professional footballer in Dalian of Liaoning Province, also died while watching the Holland-Spain game with his friends, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.
The original report goes on to say five more died after a football fan in Wenzhou fell asleep at the wheel.
On Saturday, a 50-year-old driver, 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.
Brazil is 11 hours behind China, meaning fans in the Middle Kingdom have to stay up all through the night to follow the tournament.
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