Managua: An obese woman in her thirties who died was the first swine flu victim in Nicaragua, which has registered more than 500 cases of A(H1N1), the Health Minister told local radio.
The woman died from undefined health complications yesterday after she was urgently admitted to hospital, Guillermo Gonzalez told Radio Ya public radio.
The deceased had first showed swine flu symptoms more than two weeks beforehand, after giving birth by cesarean section in a public hospital in the Central American nation, he added.
In neighbouring Costa Rica, President Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that he had contracted swine flu, becoming the world's first known leader to have fallen ill with the virus.
Bureau Report
First Published: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 09:54