A 23-month-old child in Texas is the first person known to have died of swine flu outside Mexico, where it may have killed as many as 159 people.
Officials in Washington gave no other details of the patient. Federal health officials had been warning the virus would probably claim lives in the US.
The US earlier confirmed it was treating 64 cases of the virus.
Germany became the latest country to confirm cases of the H1N1 virus, reporting three sufferers.
The death in Texas was confirmed by Dr Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
WHE'RE ALL GOINING TO DIE
the child was brought to texas from Mexico for treatment.
you are a carefree.
I don't know why everyone is freaking out over this, it's just another flu?
New flu kills 2nd person in U.S., spreads globally
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas woman with the new H1N1 flu died earlier this week, state health officials said, the second death outside of Mexico, where the epidemic appeared to be waning.
Officials said on Tuesday the woman, who was in her 30s, had chronic health problems. U.S. health officials have predicted that the swine flu virus would spread and inevitably kill some people, just as seasonal flu does.
Last week a Mexican toddler visiting Texas also died. Mexican officials have reported 29 confirmed deaths.
The World Health Organization was monitoring the spread of the virus and said 21 countries have officially reported 1,490 cases. The United States has 403 confirmed cases in 38 states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, with another 700 "probable" cases. Canada has reported 165 cases.
"Those numbers will go up, we anticipate, and unfortunately there are likely to be more hospitalizations and more deaths," U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said.
Health officials said the outbreak seemed to be slowing in Mexico, the country hardest-hit by the virus, which is a mixture of swine viruses and some elements of human and bird flu. At the same time, infections were breaking out globally.
An aircraft carrying 97 Chinese stranded in Mexico by the flu scare was expected to arrive in Shanghai late on Wednesday and all on board appear healthy, state media said.
"Doctors are monitoring the passengers' health," Xinhua news agency quoted China Southern airline as saying, describing them as being "in normal condition."
An AeroMexico plane arrived in Shanghai on Tuesday to repatriate dozens of Mexicans who had become pawns in a drama about how far governments should go to stifle fears that the H1N1 virus could cross their borders.
None of the 43 Mexicans that Beijing quarantined had shown symptoms of the H1N1 flu virus, prompting Mexico to accuse China of being "discriminatory." China denied the allegation, saying isolation was the correction procedure.
Trade skirmishes over pork also worsened, with some countries imposing new restrictions, despite assurances by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization that pork, especially cooked pork, was safe to eat.
U.S. and Canadian pig and pork exports have been hit by bans from Russia to Ecuador that rattled the $26 billion-a-year global pork industry, in which Mexico, the United States and Canada are among top exporters.
PANDEMIC ALERT
The question remained how far the virus would spread and how serious would it be. The WHO remained at pandemic alert level 5, meaning a pandemic is imminent.
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The only people who die were ill anyway or aztecs/mexicans who still aren't immune to the new diseases brought by the conquistadores.
Propaganda
swine flu is still blown retardedly out of proportion.