Health officials believe that a 9-year-old Long Island boy is the second child in Nassau County to die from the flu in less then a month.
More lab work must be done to confirm cause of death, but their preliminary investigation indicates the boy died from influenza A, a serious strain of the illness.
It's the same strain that killed a 10-year-old Levittown girl last month. Her death was the first recorded flu fatality in Nassau since health agencies started reporting pediatric flu deaths in 2004.
Seventeen children nationwide have died from the illness this season.
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