Cambodia records second swine flu death

October 06, 2009 03:43:15 PM

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A second Cambodian has died from swine flu while the country's number of confirmed infections has passed 100, health officials said Tuesday.

The victim was a 47-year-old man who died Monday afternoon in hospital in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, said Sok Touch, director of the health ministry's communicable disease control department.

Cambodia recorded its first death from swine flu late last month and health officials have now confirmed at least 101 cases of the A(H1N1) virus since it was first detected in the country in June.

The number of swine flu cases worldwide has jumped by at least 24,000 in two weeks to exceed 343,000, while deaths from the virus edged up to more than 4,100, a US health agency said Monday.