China reports 1st swine flu-related death
The Associated Press, Beijing | Thu, 07/02/2009 7:57 AM
Chinese state media is reporting that a woman diagnosed with the H1N1 virus has died in the country's first swine flu-related death.
The official Xinhua News Agency said that a 34-year-old woman who had been sickened with the virus died early Wednesday at a hospital in the coastal province of Zhejiang.
Xinhua said the woman was found dead in the bathroom of her ward at the No. 1 People's Hospital in the provincial capital of Hangzhou.
It said that she had been admitted to the hospital on June 23 and that her temperature had been normal for a week. She showed no other flu symptoms, Xinhua said.
The cause of her death was under investigation.
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