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MANNING, S.C. -- An 11-year-old student at a South Carolina private school closed because of a possible flu epidemic has died.
WIS-TV reports Laurence Manning Academy student Ashley Pipkin died Wednesday while being taken to a Columbia hospital.
The girl's family says she started complaining of flu-like symptoms Monday and ended up with pneumonia.
Laurence Manning Academy will be closed through Friday after about 290 of the private school's 1,000 students called in sick on Tuesday, citing flu-like symptoms.
Headmaster Spencer Jordan says a third of those students have been diagnosed with Type A Influenza, while the rest have various cold symptoms.
He says the school has no confirmed cases of swine flu.
MANNING, S.C. -- An 11-year-old student at a South Carolina private school closed because of a possible flu epidemic has died.
MANNING, S.C. -- a South Carolina private school closed because of a possible flu epidemic. An 11-year-old student has died.
Originally posted by semperfortis
MANNING, S.C. -- An 11-year-old student at a South Carolina private school closed because of a possible flu epidemic has died.
Laurence Manning Academy will be closed through Friday after about 290 of the private school's 1,000 students called in sick on Tuesday, citing flu-like symptoms.
Headmaster Spencer Jordan says a third of those students have been diagnosed with Type A Influenza, while the rest have various cold symptoms.
He says the school has no confirmed cases of swine flu.
290 Students all with the normal flu sick enough to call out?
It looks to me as if this is hitting real close now.
Originally posted by Chiiru
She didn't die from swine flu.
She died of pneumonia.
Sad, really. My heart goes out to her parents. To lose one so young to pneumonia of all things >_<
little known study released by the CDC that reports on the deaths of 36 children attributable to complications from the Swine flu. The majority of those deaths occurred in children with very significant neurodevelopmental disorders.