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6-year-Texas boy dies in Arkansas with swine flu


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Updated: 9/28/2009 6:46 pm Published: 9/28/2009 11:26 am
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. (AP) - Authorities say a 6-year-old Texarkana, Texas, boy has died at a Little Rock hospital of swine flu.

Pulaski County Coroner Garland Camper says Diamauri Hobbs died at Arkansas Children's Hospital about 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Camper says Hobbs had other health problems that included a compromised respiratory system.

Camper says the boy tested positive for the virus that's also known as the H1N1 virus after arriving at the hospital on Sept. 18.

 

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