Swine flu claimed the life of a 26-year-old woman on Sunday, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health announced yesterday. It is the city’s first swine-flu fatality.
“When these cases are suspected and confirmed, the Division of Disease Control [does] a follow up with family and close contacts,” said Department of Public …

SALT LAKE CITY — State health officials are reporting the first death associated with swine flu in Utah.
Health officials say a 21-year-old man died Wednesday morning at a Salt Lake City hospital. They say the man had chronic medical conditions.
David Sundwall, executive director of the Utah Department of Health, …

Just a quick report on the first swine flu death in New York.

In this May 15, 2009 file photo, Anita Seeratan, 13, an 8th grader at the Susan B. Anthony middle school, holds up a copy of the 2005 yearbook open to the page with the photograph of assistant Principal Mitchell Wiener, in New York. A hospital official said Sunday May 17, …

Eleven New York City schools are closed today in an effort to prevent the spread of the swine flu virus after it claimed its first victim in the area, a 55-year-old assistant principal.
The school closings and the death of Mitchell Weiner, an assistant principal at Susan B. Anthony Intermediate …

Two additional deaths attributed to swine flu were reported over the weekend, with both victims suffering from other health conditions.
China also reported its first suspected case of the flu, according to The Associated Press. On Sunday, the World Health Organization reported that there were 4,379 cases of the A (H1N1) …

A Texas woman with the H1N1 flu virus died earlier this week, state health officials said, the second death outside of Mexico, where the epidemic appeared to be waning.
Officials identified the woman as a 33-year-old pregnant schoolteacher who fell into a coma and had her baby delivered by Caesarean section. …