Swine Flu Kills Toddler

A toddler boy aged 23-months has died of the swine flu in Texas. This child’s death is the first confirmed death of swine flu in the United States.

The boy was from Mexico City, he was airlifted two weeks ago to a Houston hospital from the border town of Brownsville, where he had been visiting relatives, officials said. The CDC made this announcement:

“We have confirmed the first death in this country in a 23-month-old child in Texas,” said Richard Besser, the acting director the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), said on CNN.

“As a parent and a pediatrician my heart goes out to the family. As I’ve been saying for the past few days flu is a very serious infection, and each virus is unique so it is hard to know what we’re going to be seeing,” Besser added.

“But given what we’ve seen in Mexico we have expected that we would see more severe infections and that we would see deaths.”

US health authorities have said there were 65 confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu that killed 159 people in Mexico.

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