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SEOUL: South Korea Sunday confirmed its second death from swine flu just a day after reporting its first fatality from the virus, officials said.
In the second case, a 63-year-old woman in Seoul died after being infected by the A(H1N1) virus, the health ministry and the Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention announced.
The woman suffered from flu symptoms and pulmonary oedema late July before being confirmed on August 8 to have contracted the virus from an unidentified person in a local community, the health authorities said.
Despite undergoing intensive medical treatment, she died Sunday of multiple organ failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome, they said.
The prime minister's office held an emergency inter-agency meeting Sunday to discuss the spread of the H1N1 flu, officials said.
"The discussion focused on measures aimed at preventing the disease from developing into a pandemic as most schools begin their new semester late this month," a spokesman for the prime minister's office said.
Health authorities said they would test for the H1N1 flu all patients suffering from pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome.
South Korea's first death from the virus, reported Saturday, was a man in his 50s from South Gyeongsang province who had travelled to Thailand.
South Korea has reported more than 2,000 cases of the H1N1 flu.
- AFP/yb
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