JERUSALEM, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- A woman contracting the A/H1N1 virus died on Wednesday in Jerusalem, marking the 69th fatal case in Israel related to the global epidemic, local news service Ynet reported.

    The latest victim, a 38-year-old woman who also suffered from obesity, died in Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, said the report.

    The death case came about two weeks after local media revealed that Israelis seemed uninterested in receiving vaccines against the virus, with statistics from health authorities showing that only 1.3 percent of Israeli residents have been vaccinated despite the fact that a much larger number of doses were available.

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered 7.3 million doses of A/H1N1 vaccines, enough for every resident in the country except for newborns.

    Earlier this year, local health experts warned that about one quarter of the total Israeli population would contract the virus during a possible outbreak this winter, among whom around 700 would die.

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