Buffalo Girl, 9, Dies of Swine Flu
Sunday, Jun 28, 2009 | Updated 9:15 AM EDT
AP
More than 30 New Yorkers have already died because of the flu.
A second Buffalo public school student has died of swine flu.
Schools Superintendent Dr. James A. Williams released a statement of sympathy Saturday. The school district didn't identify the student, but her mother told reporters the victim was 9-year-old Maya Harden.
The Charles R. Drew Science Magnet School fourth-grader was critically ill with the virus for more than a week. The girl's mother, Akea Hollingsworth, says her daughter died Saturday after doctors "tried everything to get her lungs circulating.''
A 15-year-old boy who attended the Harvey Austin School died of swine flu June 20.
Some other children in the state have died of the virus, and hundreds have been hospitalized. But most deaths have been among people between ages 25 and 64.
More than 30 New Yorkers have died because of the swine flu since the outbreak began, and more than 800 have been hospitalized.
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