The 30-year-old patient from Binh Thanh District was admitted to Gia Dinh People Hospital on Monday night with a fever, cough and sore throat, according to the representative, noting that he was given treatment with Tamiflu without waiting to take an influenza A (H1N1) virus test.

His condition quickly worsened and progressed to respiratory failure before he died at 5 p.m. on Thursday, the hospital said.

The patient, who was confirmed to have had swine flu later, had paralyzed legs and was obese, according to the hospital.

On the same day the Ministry of Health reported another 203 H1N1 cases in Vietnam, increasing the country’s tally to 7,839 since the disease was first detected here in May.

Eleven have died of the disease, with the first two cases in August and nine this month alone.

In the meantime, dengue fever is plaguing Hanoi with 6,507 patients registered since the beginning of the year – 15 times more than the same period last year, the city’s Department of Health reported on the same day.

No dengue fatalities have been recorded so far.

Overall, more than 57,000 dengue cases have been reported nationwide this year, an increase of 13-percent year-on-year.

Source: Thanh Nien, Tuoi Tre