Health department: Boulder child died because of swine flu
The Denver Post
Posted: 09/23/2009 11:07:11 AM MDT
A child between age 10 and 17 died in Boulder this month because of the swine flu, but had other health conditions that could have played a part, according to the state health department.
A second person -- who lived in Denver and was about 50 -- died Monday, and more than 170 people have been hospitalized across the state, in an early and "extraordinary" start to the flu season that has doctors unsure about what to expect come winter.
The health department would not release the exact ages, gender or names of the patients who died, but both had other health conditions that might have caused them to succumb to the flu, said Dr. Ken Gershman, chief of the communicable disease program at the state Department of Public Health and Environment.
The two recent deaths bring the total in Colorado to three. The first reported death from H1N1 flu was a 41-year-old El Paso County woman, who died in July.
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