Hanoi, September 06: State media and a doctor say a Vietnamese woman diagnosed with swine flu has died, raising the country’s death toll to three.
The VnExpress online newspaper says the 56-year-old woman died on Friday, one day after being admitted to a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. She suffered from respiratory failure and a blood infection.
Cao Thi Bao Van, a doctor at the Pasteur Institute, says tests confirmed that the woman was infected with swine flu.
VnExpress says health officials are investigating how she became infected.
Vietnam has reported 3,295 swine flu cases. The Ministry of Health says 1,473 patients have recovered.
–Agencies