Jul 3, 2009, 4:00 GMT
Beijing - An electric shock killed a Chinese swine flu patient who was found dead in a hospital restroom, state media reported on Friday.
An autopsy on the 34-year-old woman, who was under treatment for H1N1 influenza at a hospital the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, found that she died accidentally from an electric shock early Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency quoted a police statement as saying.
The unnamed woman had shown signs of recovery since she was admitted to the No 1 People's Hospital in Hangzhou's Xiaoshan district on June 23 and her temperature was normal for the week before she died, earlier reports said.
China has confirmed 915 H1N1 infections, with 296 under current hospital treatment and six people quarantined at home, the health ministry said. Another 612 people had recovered fully from the virus, it said.
China has so far reported no confirmed deaths from H1N1 but health ministry official Liang Wannian earlier this week said China's rising number of cases made it 'very likely' that it would report its first death from the virus in the near future.
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