SECOND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT DIES FROM SWINE FLU |
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A Morgantown High School student is reportedly dead from swine flu, according to the Dominion Post. A 14-year-old Cabell County student died from the disease. After being hospitalized with the swine flu, 17-year-old Misty Cricks died Sunday afternoon at Ruby Memorial Hospital. Cricks starting showing symptoms about two weeks ago, and had been on a ventilator in the pediatric intensive care unit. Cricks' mother said she was told the girl was brain dead. It will be the sixth H1N1-related death in the state.
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