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India and South Africa Suffer First Swine Flu Deaths
As the pandemic sows ever-deeper fears for public health across more territories, South African health authorities said an otherwise healthy student had succumbed after contracting the A(H1N1) virus.
Ruan Muller, a 22-year-old student at Stellenbosch University near Cape Town, becomes the first fatality due to swine flu in sub-Saharan Africa.
Western Cape health minister Theuns Botha said the man had no underlying health problems.
"He died on the 28th (of July), but there had to be some testing done to ensure the cause of death. It was the A(H1N1) influenza," said Fidel Hadebe, spokesman for the department of health.
With the world's highest number of HIV/AIDS-affected people at nearly 19 percent of a 49 million population, South Africa is considered particularly at risk given that those with compromised immunity are more likely to fall prey to the disease.
A large proportion of nearly 1,000 recorded deaths around the world since the virus was first identified in Mexico in April have involved people with underlying medical conditions.
South Africa's swine flu caseload has increased fourfold since the country's first case was reported on June 14. The government has said its stockpile of branded Tamiflu treatment will only be used for the seriously ill, but that schools may also be closed on a case-by-case basis.
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