NEW YORK, May 17, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A New York City educator
hospitalized with swine flu died Sunday, a hospital official said, though he
would not say whether the virus contributed to his death.
A spokesman for Flushing Hospital said Mitchell Weiner, 55, assistant principal
at Intermediate School 238 in Queens, had died, the report said. The spokesman
would not say whether the H1N1, commonly called swine flu, contributed.
U.S. health officials earlier linked the virus to four deaths in the country.
CNN said Weiner worked at one of eight New York schools temporarily closed
because of the flu.
Swine flu has killed dozens of people in Mexico, officials said. It can be
treated, CNN reported, but can be fatal for the very old, very young and people
suffering from other existing conditions.
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