Lab confirms first swine flu death

The National Reference Laboratory has confirmed that a 31-year-old woman who died in hospital in Karlovy Vary, west Bohemia, on Thursday was suffering from swine flu. The woman also had a serious heart condition. Hers is the first swine flu death in the Czech Republic. Another man, 30 years of age, remains in serious condition. It is not clear where either patient contracted the disease; neither had travelled abroad recently.