A 53-year-old man has died of swine flu in Spain, the health ministry said Monday, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths from the disease in the country to six.
The man died at an unspecified date "from complications related to the influenza A(H1N1)" virus after being admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital in the eastern town of Alzira, the ministry said in a statement.
There are currently 1,806 confirmed cases of A(H1N1) in Spain, according to the ministry.
A 20-year-old Moroccan woman who was seven months pregnant became the first Spanish swine flu death in Madrid on June 30.
More than 800 people have been killed around the globe by the A(H1N1) virus, which first surfaced in Mexico, and the World Health Organisation has warned that the pandemic is now unstoppable.
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