Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, WV

State News

November 1, 2009

Kanawha County reports state’s 6th swine flu death

CHARLESTON (AP) — The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department is treating the death of a 58-year-old woman as the state’s sixth from swine flu.

The agency said Sunday the woman that the woman died of complications of influenza on Halloween at a Kanawha County hospital. Her name was not released, but the health department says she was a Kanawha County resident.

While the agency says it hasn’t been confirmed that the woman had the H1N1 virus, she tested positive for influenza and regional data shows 99 percent of people who test positive for influenza have swine flu.

The death is the first from swine flue in Kanawha County and sixth in the state.

No one answered at the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department on Sunday.

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