Via The Kathmandu Post: Government confirms swine flu deaths. Excerpt:
The government on Monday confirmed that swine flu has killed two people in the country so far.
This came a day after reports of the first-ever swine flu death in the country.
The Department of Health Services under the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a press release that a 31-year-old woman from Chitwan had died at a hospital on Dec. 5. Another 29-year-old woman, who had renal failure, died in course of treatment on Dec. 24.
According to World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates, which declared a swine flu pandemic on June 11, the disease has killed over 11,500 people worldwide, including over 850 in India.
In Nepal, swine flu cases were reported six months ago. The first confirmed cases were three Non-Resident Nepalis of a family, who had arrived in Kathmandu from the US via Qatar on June 29.
The MoH stated that it had confirmed 150 swine flu cases in the country as of Monday. It said the patients—106 males and 44 females—were aged between 15 and 45 years.
The statistics in the last paragraph are surprising: H1N1 usually afflicts males and females equally. I would guess that a large number of female cases are going unnoticed and untreated.
