WELLINGTON, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- A 43-year-old New Zealand woman died on Wednesday night after being ravaged by A/H1N1 Influenza for three months, the Timaru Herald reported on Friday.

    She was one of the worst cases of A/H1N1 Influenza in the world because of the damage the disease had caused her otherwise healthy body, an Auckland doctor who had been treating her said.

    She had also made medical and scientific history by surviving so long, the doctor said.

    The South Canterbury mother-of-four had no other health conditions when she was admitted to hospital on August 8 with flu-like symptoms.

    In her 14 weeks in hospital, she was transferred from Timaru to Christchurch to Auckland as doctors struggled to save her.

    In the intensive care unit there, one lung started to fail and she was left with only half of the second lung functioning.

    The woman started to respond to medication which helped her blood circulation and was cleared of A/H1N1 Influenza but it had "eaten away at her organs", the source said.

    The family thought they were "on the home straight" but her condition deteriorated.

    New Zealand's official death toll from A/H1N1 Influenza is now 20.