SECOND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT DIES FROM SWINE FLU

(10/26/2009)
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.