Young Indiana man dies of swine flu
Published: July 12, 2009 at 1:31 AM
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/07/12/Young-Indiana-man-dies-of-swine-flu/UPI-13131247376711/
CINCINNATI, July 12 (UPI) — A 19-year-old man has become the first person in Indiana to die of swine flu, health officials said.
Matthew McIntosh died in a hospital in Cincinnati after collapsing in a barn in Dearborn County in southeastern Indiana, The Indianapolis Star reported Saturday.
McIntosh’s death was unusual because he was healthy with no underlying illness, health officials said. Most of the 211 people believed to have died from infection with the H1N1 virus have suffered from conditions that made them vulnerable.
O’Dell Owens, the coroner in Hamilton County, Ohio, said an autopsy showed McIntosh had no other adverse health conditions. Owens said McIntosh’s sister, who became ill around the same time and is in intensive care, tested negative for H1N1, but McIntosh tested positive.
Very sad. I wonder if his sister had the same symptoms that he had? (Article doesn’t say.)
Also strange that she tested negative but is in intensive care because she’s “ill”? Ill with what?