PHOENIX, May 15, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Arizona health officials confirmed a
40-year-old woman died from complications of the H1N1 flu, formerly known as
swine flu.
The woman's death was the first related to the H1N1 virus in Arizona and the
fourth in the United States, The Arizona Republic in Phoenix reported.
The Maricopa Department of Public health confirmed Thursday the woman died last
week from flu complications and had an underlying lung disease.
In New York, a middle school assistant principal was hospitalized and on a
ventilator in the city's first serious case of H1N1 flu, The New York Times
reported Friday. The city closed the school and two others schools reporting
clusters of flu-like symptoms for at least a week.
"While the symptoms of H1N1 flu seem to resemble those of seasonal flu, the H1N1
virus seems to spread rapidly, so we're closing these schools in order to slow
transmission," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday during a news
conference.
The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta identified 4,298 confirmed cases of
H1N1 flu in the United States. The World Health Organization reported 6,497
cases of H1N1 flu have been confirmed in 33 countries, with 64 deaths in Mexico,
four in the United States, and one each in Canada and Costa Rica.
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