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Evansville nurse dies after flu hospitalization

Posted on November 2, 2009 at 11:25 AM

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) -- An Evansville hospital is awaiting tests to confirm whether a nurse who died was ill with swine flu.
  

Fifty-three-year-old Danna Fortune of Boonville died Friday at St. Mary's Medical Center, more than a week after being admitted with flu-like symptoms.
  

Hospital spokesman Rick Peltier tells the Evansville Courier & Press there are no indications Fortune had been in contact with any patients hospitalized with swine flu. She was a nurse in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit.
  

The health officer in southwestern Indiana's Greene County also reports that a death last week was its first related to swine flu. That person's identity wasn't released.
  

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)
 

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