Health Minister Darko Milinovic said on Tuesday that one person had died from complications caused by the swine flu virus H1N1 and that about 100 people in Croatia were infected at the moment.

Those ill are mainly young people, the youngest being a year-old baby and the oldest a 60-year-old man, the one who died from complications, Milinovic told Hina, adding that no person older than 60 had been infected so far.

The minister pointed to the serious symptoms of swine flu, saying the consequences of last year's campaign against swine flu vaccination were now coming to light.

"It would be very useful now if people had been vaccinated againstswine flu last year as they would be resistant to the virus."

Milinovic recommended that everyone get vaccinated, notably chronic patients and the elderly.

More than 20 people died of swine flu in Croatia last season.