Paris - A 14-year-old girl infected with the A(H1N1) virus
has died in France, the first death in the country linked to swine flu, the
French Health Institute (InVS) said Thursday. The teenager had been suffering
from an unspecified grave illness when she contracted the virus that causes
swine flu and which aggravated her condition by provoking a serious lung
infection.
The girl died inhospital in the western city of Brest. The
daily Le Figaro cited sources from the Health Institute as saying that her death
was not directly linked to swine flu.
