Nov 3, 2009 6:11 pm US/Eastern
Western NY Child Dies Of Swine Flu
BATAVIA, N.Y. (CBS) ―
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A vile of Panvax H1N1 Vaccine is displayed during the launch of the National pandemic (swine flu) influenza vaccination campaign by the Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon at Swan Park Leisure Centre on September 30, 2009 in Perth, Australia. Four
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Health officials in Genesee County have linked a child's death to swine flu.
Interim Health Director Randolph Garney would only identify the victim as a school-age child with confirmed H1N1 influenza. He declined to release the child's age or school district Tuesday.
In neighboring Erie County, tests were being conducted to determine whether a 15-year-old Amherst High School student who died on Sunday had the virus. Chelsea Oliver was admitted to a Buffalo hospital two days before she died of pneumonia.
On Monday, health officials in Albany and Warren counties reported two swine flu deaths: an adolescent who died of complications related to a long-term illness last week and an adult who died at Glens Falls Hospital on Saturday.
New York City elementary schools began administering H1N1 vaccinations last week. There were 53 in Brooklyn that begin vaccinations, another 25 in the Bronx, 22 in Queens, 20 in Manhattan and eight on Staten Island.
And it's just the beginning of a plan to get upwards of 60 percent of the student body immunized. The 128 schools involved in phase one will be joined by 77 more this Wednesday, with 559 next week.
That's a lot of schools, and when you add in the clinics they'll be opening for middle and high schools students and all the other target groups for the flu vaccine, you have to wonder if they're going to have enough vaccine.
And the answer is: officials hope so. "We will have enough as the vaccine arrives over time for everyone for whom it is recommend," said the NYC Health Commisioner Dr. Thomas A. Farley.
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Call NY's H1N1 Hotline: 1-800-808-1987
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