BRASILIA – Brazil's government on Friday confirmed its first case of swine flu transmitted from person to person within the country.
The discovery brought to six the total number of cases of the influenza A(H1N1) virus detected in Latin America's largest nation.
The country confirmed its first four cases on Thursday, after the deadly virus was first discovered in Mexico last month. Three of the confirmed cases had traveled to Mexico and one to the United States, Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao said.
