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Swine flu deaths mount in South, Central America
Buenos Aires (AFP) July 20, 2009 The death toll from swine flu continued to mount in South and Central America Monday, with Argentina upping its figures to 165, making it the second worst-affected country after the United States. Argentine Health Minister Juan Manzur said the number of fatalities caused by the A(H1N1) virus had risen by 28 since figures were last released by the Health Ministry on July 14. Only the United States, where 211 people have died, has been worse hit by the worldwide pandemic that first emerged out of Mexico in April. Elsewhere in the region, Panama reported its first fatality from the virus -- a nine-month-old baby. Panama's Health Ministry said in a statement that the infant died Sunday night at a children's hospital in the capital of "respiratory complications." So far, authorities in Panama have confirmed 541 cases of swine flu in the country, with the majority of those in the area around Panama City. Meanwhile, in El Salvador, authorities reported the country's sixth A(H1N1)-related fatality. The Ministry of Education in the country, where 467 cases of infection have been recorded, has ordered classes be suspended for 12 days in four districts in the east of the country where the virus has hit hardest. In Bolivia, the death toll from swine flu rose by two to five fatalities, authorities said. So far, around 700 people in the country have been infected with the virus, according to the Bolivian Health Ministry. Paraguay's Health Ministry on Monday raised its death toll to 10 and said it had confirmed 175 cases of infection with the disease. In Mexico, where the pandemic was first detected, the health ministry reported three new fatalities, taking the death toll to 128 and the number of infections to 14,229. And in Peru, a 58-year-old man who suffered from hypertension and other ailments succumbed to swine flu in the northeastern region of Ancash, bringing the number of swine flu-related deaths across the country to 12, health officials said. burs-sah/ao Share This Article With Planet Earth
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