MADRID, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Spanish Health Ministry reported on Monday the first death in the country of a child from A/H1N1 flu.

    The patient was an 11-year-old boy who was hospitalized in the Mother-Children Hospital of Canary Islands. His identity was not revealed.

    The Canary Islands' Health Service and the Health Ministry said that the patient had a chronic disease and his death was related to the A/H1N1 virus.

    With this death, the A/H1N1 flu death toll in the country rose to 12. The other 11 were patients aged between 20 and 71, including two pregnant women.

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