Buenos Aires province Health Minister Claudio Zin acknowledged that the government is encountering "unexpected complications" in tasks to combat spreading swine flu in the province.

Nevertheless, the minister downplayed the seriousness of the situation and sought to calm the provincial residents noting that "the mortality rate cause by the illness is not ‘so' alarming."

The minister, who was a famous doctor who built himself a name appearing on television shows, claimed the deadly swine flue has a "really unique transmission rate."

"We're encountering unexpected complications" in dealing with the illness, and he specified the vulnerability of "pregnant women," he added. Twenty-three people have already died in Argentina as a result of the illness, according to official data.

Zin was hence commenting on two young women who died this week as a result of the illness. In one of those cases, a 22-year-old woman in Luján who was in week 38 of pregnancy, physicians were able to save her baby after she had already died thanks to a caesarean surgery.

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