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JOHANNESBURG ? Health officials say that a college student has become the first South African to die from swine flu.
The 22-year-old male student from the University of Stellenbosch, near Cape Town, died July 28 after being sick for a week.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said that the H1N1 virus was confirmed as the cause of death Monday.
The student went to the campus clinic with flu symptoms but was later admitted to a private hospital. He was treated for pneumonia but did not recover.
There have been more than 500 swine flu cases reported in South Africa since mid-June. Some schools in Johannesburg have temporarily closed after pupils tested positive for swine flu.
It was confirmed yesterday that a 22-year-old Stellenbosch student died of H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu. Ruan Muller, a fourth-year polymer sciences student at the University of Stellenbosch, died last Tuesday, two days after his birthday and eight days after going to the university?s clinic complaining of flu- like symptoms on July 20.
Muller was diagnosed with atypical pneumonia when admitted to hospital on July 26, but his condition deteriorated and he was moved to the intensive care unit.
He died of cardiac arrest on July 28.
After his death, doctors collected a specimen and sent it to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, which confirmed that Muller had H1N1 .
4 August 2009 CAPE TOWN - AIDS-ravaged South Africa on Monday announced its first swine flu victim as Indian media reported a first death on the sub-continent and Russia warned football fans not to travel to Wales.
As the pandemic sows ever-deeper fears for public health across more territories, South African health authorities said an otherwise healthy student had succumbed after contracting the A(H1N1) virus.
Ruan Muller, a 22-year-old student at Stellenbosch University near Cape Town, becomes the first fatality due to swine flu in sub-Saharan Africa.
Western Cape health minister Theuns Botha said the man had no underlying health problems.
“He died on the 28th (of July), but there had to be some testing done to ensure the cause of death. It was the A(H1N1) influenza,” said Fidel Hadebe, spokesman for the department of health.
