11-year-old Dallas area girl dies of swine flu
September 16, 2009
GARLAND, Texas (AP) – An 11-year-old Garland girl died just days after going home sick from school with the swine flu.
Cynthia Garcia was a sixth-grader in the Mesquite school district. The Dallas Morning News reports she went home sick Thursday and died Sunday.
The Dallas health department says the child didn’t have an underlying medical condition, but did have pneumonia and a bacterial infection.
Texas Department of State Health Services spokesman Doug McBride says 42 Texans have died so far from swine flu. Not counting Garcia’s death, four of those swine flu deaths have been in those under 18 and at least two had underlying health problems.
He says 11 Texans under 18 have died from seasonal flu since the flu season began last fall.
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Information from: The Dallas Morning News, http://www.dallasnews.com
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