【Seoul / Healthkoreanews】A swine flu patient was died for the first time in Korea on 15 August.
The MHWFA(Ministry fo Health, Welfare and Family Affairs) annnounced on 15 August that a 55 year old man living at Kyeongsangnamdo died of the swine flu.
He had suffered from a fever and a sore throat after a trip to Thailand and had been hospitalized at a local university hospital.
This is the Korea's first swine flu-related death case. [헬스코리아뉴스]