source: Dallas health officials say the first child in North Texas to die of swine flu did not have underlying medical conditions.
Cynthia Garcia, 11, did have pneumonia and a bacterial infection, they said, but those conditions appeared to follow the swine flu infection.
Cynthia was a sixth grader at Price Elementary in Garland, which is in the Mesquite ISD.
Mesquite ISD have alerted parents to the girl’s sudden death.
School officials say Cynthia went home sick from school with a fever Thursday. She saw a doctor that day and then went home with three prescription drugs.
Family members said Cynthia stayed in bed on Saturday, sleeping a lot.
Finally, her mother, Maria Bidillo, called for an ambulance.
“She was really weak,” Bidillo said. “In the evening, [she told me] ‘I don’t feel good, I need to go to the doctor.’”
Cynthia died later that same day.
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