A 37-year-old Buddhist nun in Vietnam’s central highlands has died of swine flu, bringing the total number killed by the disease this year to four, authorities said on Tuesday. She was then taken in for a private health check-up, the Kon Tum Centre for Disease Control said in a statement. So far, at least one from the 44 tests carried out came out as positive for swine flu, and the patient is receiving intensive treatment. Swine flu is a respiratory disease caused by the virus H1N1, originally found in pigs, which causes colds, sore throats, coughs and fever. The disease killed eight people in Vietnam in 2018

Source: The Guardian November 12, 2019 11:14 UTC