First swine flu death IN jamaica

Published: Tuesday | July 7, 2009 Health Minister Rudyard Spencer has ordered a probe into the death of a young man at the Tony Thwaites Wing of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) yesterday morning after he suffered complications associated with the influenza A (H1N1) virus. The St Catherine man, believed to be 22 years old, became the first known fatality of the virus in Jamaica. full: http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090707/lead/lead7.html