81-Year-Old Becomes Ninth Influenza A Fatality
By Bae Ji-sook
Staff Reporter
An 81-year-old woman died Friday apparently due to complications from influenza A (H1N1), raising the death toll here to nine.
According to health authorities in North Jeolla Province, the woman had been in an intensive care unit of Chonbuk National University Hospital since Sept. 3, when she was confirmed to have the infection.
She was suffering from respiratory problems, cerebral infarction and hypertension, and soon developed several complications including pneumonia, her doctors said.
The Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs is checking whether influenza A was the direct cause of her death.
More than 10,000 people are confirmed to have contracted the flu here so far.