Swine Flu Claims NY Principal
May 18, 2009 by Cherie Burbach
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
New York has its first swine flu death Sunday night. The assistant principal from Intermediate School 238 in Hollis, Mitchell Wiener, died just six days after he originally got sick. He had been hospitalized four days ago with a temperature of 103.
Four students also have the disease, now called the H1N1 virus. Wiener had a ” particularly bad case that shut down his kidneys and ravaged his lungs.” He was 55.
Health officials have warned that new, equally severe cases of the disease may still pop up.
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