Minnesota health officials reported that the patient who had died last December had a flu virus, thus adding one more to the death toll of the current flu season. Flu has taken toll on 68 people in Minnesota. But so far, only 60 deaths in the area have been positively linked to H1N1.

Seven other victims, including the latest one, had strains that are not identifiable properly.

The particulars of the latest victim, who is said to have been in his or her 70s, has not been made public yet. He hailed from Hennepin County.

Since its outbreak last spring, the state Health Department has been tracking flu-related deaths very carefully. The officials shared that though H1N1 has been fading for months, but there is still a sign of it rising again.

No cases of outbreaks were reported from nursing homes and the schools also did not report outbreaks of flulike illness.