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Baltimore, Maryland

http://wjz.com/local/swine.flu.wjz.2.1206417.html

Originally Posted by wjz.com

A 13-year-old Baltimore girl is on life support after contracting the swine flu.

...she is a student at Montebello Elementary and Middle School.

"We have been informed by the Health Department that a student at Montebello Elementary Middle has a confirmed case of H1N1 flu. The student is being treated and is not in school.

Her aunt tells WJZ the girl collapsed at school Monday. She was taken to the hospital where she went into cardiac arrest.

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UPDATE

http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/b...tory?track=rss

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Houston, Texas

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/heal...wine_flu_staph

We keep seeing these co-infections with swine flu that increase the severity of these cases.

Originally Posted by www.myfoxhouston.com

Billy Cary is 13. He’s been hit so hard by the swine flu and complications that after a week in the hospital, it's an improvement to say he's in critical condition.

“It's as scary as it gets,” Cary’s dad said. “When he got the flu, it went to his lungs. He got a bacterial infection as well as pneumonia. The bacteria was so bad he went into septic shock”

Cary's now on a ventilator and a kidney dialysis machine.

And his dad says he never thought the swine flu was any big deal.

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Cleveland County, Oklahoma

http://www.kokcradio.com/localnews/c...spx?id=1143887

Originally Posted by www.kokcradio.com

A Cleveland County teen dies from medical complications from the H1N1 flu. The teenager's death is the third such death in Oklahoma since the outbreak began in the spring and the first of someone under the age of 18.

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Florrisant, Missouri

http://www.bnd.com/breaking_news/story/938916.html


http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/new...8?OpenDocument

Originally Posted by www.stltoday.com

"The doctor said she tested positive for the swine flu," Asia's mother, Kim Conley, told the Post-Dispatch on Friday. "Four doctors told me that the inflammation was from the flu. They said it went up into her brain and gave her three strokes because it had blocked the arteries of her brain."

Doctors showed Asia's parents an MRI of her brain and told them Asia would never recover. At about 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Asia's parents decided to give doctors permission to remove the breathing tube. She died about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, her mother said.

"They asked to do an autopsy just on her brain," Kim Conley said. "The flu did it. They told me that."

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Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

http://www.patriotledger.com/homepag...s-of-swine-flu

Originally Posted by www.patriotledger.com

Matt Healey, who graduated this year from Thayer Academy, died Saturday. Academy Headmaster Ted Koskores said Healey became ill shortly after arriving at the campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

A grief counselor will be available at the school at 5 p.m. Monday for alumni and at 6:30 for parents of alumni and current students. The programs will be held in the Center for the Arts.

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Ft. Worth, Texas

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...1c5325484.html

Originally Posted by www.dallasnews.com

Chloe Lindsey, 14, died at Cook Children’s Medical Center on Sunday night, four days after showing signs of illness, her mother told WFAA-TV (Channel 8).

Tammy Osborne said her daughter had no underlying health condition when she first exhibited low-grade fever on Wednesday. She stayed home from Leonard Middle School on Thursday and went to the doctor on Friday.

Osborne said she took her daughter to the hospital at 5 a.m. Sunday, and she died about 8 p.m. Doctors said the child suffered from influenza and viral pneumonia.

“I want everybody to know how fast this happened,” the grieving mother told WFAA. “I tried to do everything the doctor said.”

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Knox County, Tennessee

http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story...100425&catid=2

Originally Posted by www.wbir.com

Monday afternoon, doctors placed the special needs student at Bearden Middle School on a breathing machine. She has Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome, uses a wheelchair, and has a week immune system. Liberty describes her daughter as "severely delayed".

A nurse fed Vazquez through a feeding tube at the school twice a day. Her mother believes that nurse passed along the virus to Latecia.

Nearly two weeks ago, that school nurse died. The cause of her death has not been released to the public.

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Corpus Christi, Texas

http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11227255

Originally Posted by www.kristv.com

A 12-year-old Flour Bluff girl lapsed into a coma and died Tuesday from the H1N1 virus (swine flu).

School officials are not telling KRIS 6 News the girl's name, but said she was in the sixth grade at Flour Bluff Intermediate School.

On Friday, she didn't go to school, and by Saturday, the 12-year-old girl went to Driscoll Children's Hospital. Doctors said the swine flu virus caused brain swelling, which in turn left the little girl brain dead. She passed away Tuesday.

Health officials do not know how the girl got the virus, but they said she was healthy before.

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Tyler, Texas

http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11226490

Originally Posted by www.kltv.com

Tuesday, we learned an East Texas child died at a Dallas hospital in the last 24 hours. He was a 9-year-old boy who went to Jack Elementary in Tyler.

Doctors are not confirming the boy had the H1N1 flu virus, but a doctor with the health district told us there is a 90% chance the child had H1N1. They did confirm it is a pediatric flu related death, and that the child had other underlying diseases.

"This particular child did have some other co-morbidities which means the child had some other illnesses and put the child in a higher risk category," explained Dr. Jonathan MacClements, a Smith County Health Authority. "We are aware children with asthma or chronic illnesses are at higher risks for getting H1N1 complications."

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Richardson, Texas

http://cbs11tv.com/local/dallas.coun...2.1215484.html

Originally Posted by cbs11tv.com

Another North Texas teenager has died of H1N1 flu, according to the Dallas County Health and Human Services department.

Tuesday morning at the weekly Dallas County Commissioners' meeting, health department officials said a 16-year-old Richardson girl died from the virus during the weekend.

Trinh was a student at Richardson Berkner High School, and had an unnamed pre-existing medical condition that put her at risk for the H1N1 flu virus, according to the health department. Prior to her death, she had been out of school since September 18. Her absence may have been related to the pre-existing conditio

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