The two deaths reported by the HCMC Health Department were a 13-year-old from the Mekong Delta province of Long An and a 49-year-old Australian. The child, who was overweight and also had kidney failure, died from a lung infection caused by the H1N1 virus while the Australian died from severe respiration failure. Meanwhile, the Vietnam Ministry of Health reported another death in the Central Highlands’ Dak Lak Province, where a 23-year-old pregnant woman died from pneumonia caused by the virus. Vietnam reported 175 new cases of swine flu on Friday, raising the country’s tally to 8,014 since the end of May, with 6,495 discharged from hospitals in good health. Fourteen have died of the flu, with the first two cases in August and 12 this month alone.
