HAGATNA, Guam — Health officials on Guam report the U.S. territory has recorded its first death related to swine flu.

Dr. Annakutty Mathew is the medical director of the Department of Public Health and Social Services.
She said Monday that the 26-year-old woman had underlying medical conditions that placed her at higher risk of developing complications.
Mathew says the woman died July 11 of pneumonia, which was a complication of the swine flu infection.
Gerino Taliman says his wife, Vanisse Flores Taliman, died at Guam Memorial Hospital three days after she was brought to the emergency room.
The death was one of six new cases of the disease reported by health officials, raising Guam’s total to 16.
Guam is located about 3,700 miles southwest of Hawaii.
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Information from: Pacific Daily News, www.guampdn.com/