Pima County reporting 10th H1N1 flu death

Posted - 11/20/2009 at 2:55PM

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Pima County reporting 10th H1N1 flu death

Pima County health officials have confirmed to News 4 that another county resident has died from the H1N1 virus.

They say a girl, younger than a pre-teen who had underlying health conditions, died the first week of November.

She is the 10th person to die from the swine flu in Pima County so far this year. Every death in the county have been in people younger than 65, and according to health officials, half of those deaths have been among people younger than 25.

The county is holding a free H1N1 clinic at Tucson Electric Park tomorrow which runs from 9 a.m. to noon, for people in high-risk groups.

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