5th Arizona swine flu death confirmed in Pinal County
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June 5, 2009 by fluoutbreak
ABC15.com
Pinal County Public Health officials received confirmation Thursday that a 64-year-old woman who died last week was positive for the H1N1 virus.
According to the Arizona Department of Health Services, the woman had underlying health conditions and was being treated for pneumonia at the time of her death.
The death is the fifth statewide related to the H1N1 virus and the second death involving a resident of Pinal County.
The first child to die from swine flu in Arizona was a 13-year-old boy from Tucson who died May 15.
A Maricopa County woman in her late 40s, a 57-year-old Pinal County woman and a preteen girl living in Pima County also died from complications of swine flu in late May.
The total number of confirmed cases in Arizona is 580 as of Thursday afternoon.
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