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    School-age California child dies of swine flu

    LOS ANGELES
    Thu Jun 4, 2009 8:07pm EDT

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An elementary school student has died from the new H1N1 virus in California, the state's third death from the infection, health officials said on Thursday.

    U.S.  |  Health  |  Swine Flu

    The child, who was not identified by age or gender, died on May 29 and had a secondary bacterial infection, said Contra Costa County health officials.

    Cases of the swine flu virus have been found in all 50 U.S. states and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there were 11,468 probable and confirmed cases, with the total number of infections believed to be about 200,000.

    Twenty-one U.S. deaths from H1N1 have been reported.

    (Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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