AN 18-year-old girl has died of swine ‘flu in Valladolid, making her Spain’s 25th mortal victim of the virus.

The victim, whose identity has not been revealed, was a resident in the city’s attention centre for the psychiatrically-disabled (CAMP).

Staff at Valladolid university hospital, where she was admitted with symptoms of the AH1N1 virus, say she had a ‘psychiatric disability with a basis of severe pathological conditions’.

She is the second person to die of the disease in the region of Castilla y León, the previous one being a woman of 86 years of age on August 26.

Around 30 workers at the CAMP centre have contracted swine ‘flu in the last week or two, including a pregnant woman who had been advised by her gynaecologist not to go to work after the outbreak was reported.

All other victims from the centre are said to be responding well to treatment, and most have only a mild strain of the virus.