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India and South Africa have both confirmed their first swine flu deaths.
Indian health officials say a 14-year-old girl died in Pune, after being admitted to a hospital last month with symptoms of sore throat, runny nose and headaches.
She was put on a ventilator after her condition deteriorated.
India recorded its first H1N1 case in the southern city of Hyderabad in May and since then the virus has spread across the country with dozens of cases from Pune city itself, health department officials say.
Meanwhile in South Africa a university student has died of the virus.
"A 22-year-old University of Stellenbosch student became the first fatality in the Western Cape and as far as we know, in South Africa," Dr Craig Househam, head of the Western Cape Department of Health, has told reporters.
"The death ... is the first confirmed death related to the H1N1 virus in South Africa."
The World Health Organisation declared an H1N1 influenza epidemic on June 11. The virus has killed more than 800 people worldwide since emerging in April.
