This 2009 image taken through a microscope and provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, shows the H1N1 strain of the swine flu virus. (AP Photo/Center for Disease Control and Prevention, C. S. Goldsmith and A. Balish)
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Updated: Monday, 02 Nov 2009, 11:33 AM EST
Published : Monday, 02 Nov 2009, 11:32 AM EST
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - An Evansville hospital is awaiting tests to confirm whether a nurse who died was ill with H1N1 flu.
Danna Fortune, 53, 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 told the Evansville Courier & Press there are no indications Fortune had been in contact with any patients hospitalized with H1N1 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 H1N1 flu.
That person's identity wasn't released.
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