Moscow, Sep 21 (RIA Novosti) Russia has recorded its first swine flu death, a media report said Monday.
The victim was a female doctor who had recently returned from Bulgaria. Her condition deteriorated over the past two weeks and she tested positive for swine flu a day before she died, Vesti TV news channel reported.
“Upon receiving her samples, we immediately diagnosed her with swine flu but could not take any measures because she died the next day,” said Dmitry Lvov, director of the Moscow-based Institute of Virology. Lvov did not specify when she died.
A World Health Organization (WHO) report said last Friday that more than 4,000 people have died from swine flu worldwide with the total number of officially confirmed cases reaching 295,000.
