New York reports second A/H1N1 related death

The woman, from the city's Queens borough, had an underlying health condition that made her more at risk from the disease, The New York Times reported, quoting Jessica Scaperotti, a spokeswoman at the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Scaperotti declined to provide any more details about the woman or tell where she was hospitalized. An assistant principal at a Queens school, also in his fifties, was the city's first confirmed victim of the new strain of flu, which has sickened more than 10,000 people and killed over 80 others around the world. He died last week. The number of people hospitalized with swine flu in the city since the outbreak of the flu in early April has risen to 94 on Sunday, up from 68 on Saturday and 57 on Friday, suggesting that the rate of infection and hospitalization might be increasing, the newspaper said. It was not clear how many of those patients were currently hospitalized or how many were in critical condition, Kazinform cites Xinhuanet.