Iceland reported its first swine flu death amid a spike in cases on the North Atlantic Island. Iceland's Directorate of Health said in a statement that the victim, an 18-year-old disabled woman, died after falling ill about 11 days ago. <br/><br/>Iceland, a county of about 3,00,000 people, has so far seen a total of 479 laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus -many of them occurring in the past two weeks. Swine flu, first identified in April, is a global epidemic. The World Health Organisation says there have been nearly 4,00,000 laboratory confirmed cases and over 4,700 deaths linked to the illness. <br/><br/>