A/H1N1 flu death toll reaches 26 in Chile
10:20, 13 July 2009
BAKU. July 13. KAZINFORM The death toll caused by the A/H1N1 flu in Chile reached 26, the country's Public Health Agency said on Sunday, Xinhua reported; Kazinform refers to Trend News.
The latest death case was a 48-year-old man identified as Omar Bernardino Uribe Reyes, a resident in the southern city of Puerto Montt, said a statement of the agency.
Uribe had been hospitalized for 10 days at a clinic in Chile's capital after a medical center in Los Lagos, some 700 km south of Santiago, diagnosed his illness.
As of Saturday, 9,549 people have been infected with the A/H1N1 virus, 406 of them in serious condition, said the agency; Kazinform cites Trend News.
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