SHOOT: Officially anyway. There are conveivably plenty more - unreported.
The first death in Britain from swine flu was confirmed last night after a woman died in Scotland.
It is understood that the victim was a woman aged 38 in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, who had been admitted to intensive care suffering from the H1N1 virus.
The death is the first in the world not in the Americas, where the outbreak was first identified in Mexico in March.
“I would like to emphasise that the vast majority of those who have H1N1 are
suffering from relatively mild symptoms.
“This is a flu virus, it is in no way different from an ordinary winter flu
virus, so if there are enough cases some people will have to be admitted to
hospital and some will die.”
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