Writer: AFP
Swine flu deaths in Argentina have more than doubled in the past two weeks and now total 337, officials said Wednesday.
The figure, up from the previous count of 165, confirmed Argentina as the country with the second-highest swine flu fatality count in the world after the United States, which has 353 dead.
Argentina's deputy health minister Maximo Diosque said swine flu had almost totally replaced the normal seasonal flu in the country, which was in the southern hemisphere's winter.
More than 700,000 of the 763,000 flu cases detected in the country were of the A(H1N1) swine flu type, he said.
"We have confirmed 337 deaths by A(H1N1) flu,'' he said.
"We have a similar number, of around 400 cases, that are in the process of being confirmed.''
Although Argentina has reported almost as many deaths as the United States, its population is just a fraction of the latter, estimated at 40 million to the United States' 300 million.
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