New Delhi: A 70-year-old woman from Switzerland on Thursday died of swine flu at a hospital in Jodhpur, an official said.

The deceased identified as Animarie succumbed to the flu this morning, Jodhpur Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Dr Y V Singh Rathore told PTI on phone.

She was referred to MMH in Jodhpur on Wednesday from a private hospital in Jaisalmer where she was found positive for H1N1 virus, he said.

The woman, who was also suffering from lung cancer, died this morning, the CMHO said. The body has been kept in a mortuary.

She had come to Jaisalmer as a tourist and the woman’s guide brought her to Jodhpur yesterday. The Swiss Embassy has been informed, the official said.

Meanwhile, ten more casualties have been reported in Gujarat, taking the total death tollin the state over 100, while over 150 new cases were reported in the state in the past 24 hours. The total number of such cases this year has now climbed over 1,000. The swine flu toll in Maharashtra and Rajasthan has also crossed 100 and 40 respectively.

As many as 216 people have lost their lives to due the flu across the country in the first ten days of February as the death toll mounted to 407 this year.

Swine flu is caused by the H1N1 virus. H1N1 symptoms are similar to those produced by other influenza viruses – fever, cough, sore throat, body aches and respiratory problems.

Symptoms for swine flu include high fever, headache, muscle pain, diarrhoea, vomiting, stomach pain and internal and external bleeding. It is transmitted to people primarily from ticks and livestock animals with an incubation period of up to nine days. Human-to-human transmission takes up to two weeks.