Spain Records 9th Death From Swine Flu
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 @ 3:12 PM
A 28-year-old woman has died of swine flu in Spain, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths from the disease in the country to nine, the health ministry said Monday.
The woman died in a hospital in the eastern city of Valencia from "complications linked to the (A/H1N1) flu," the ministry said, without giving further details.
On June 30, a 20-year-old Moroccan woman who was seven months pregnant became the first person to die of swine flu in Spain.
The health ministry said Friday that 12,270 people, mostly teenagers and young adults, contracted swine flu in the country between July 27 and Aug. 2.
The ministry no longer gives a total number of confirmed cases of the A/H1N1 virus, providing instead an estimate of new cases based on medical reports from a representative sample of the population.
More than 1,000 people have died around the world by the A/H1N1 virus, which first surfaced in Mexico in April, and the World Health OrganiZation has warned that the pandemic is now unstoppable, having spread to most countries.
Source: The Wall Street Journal