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Houston gets its first local swine flu patient

Girl from Fort Bend Co. recovering after treatment at private medical center

The Houston area’s first local resident to be diagnosed with swine flu has been confirmed in Fort Bend County.

Officials at Fort Bend County’s health department said early Wednesday evening that they just received confirmation of the case from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The resident, a teenage girl, was not hospitalized and is recovering, said the officials. She is a student in Bellaire at Episcopal High School, which starting Thursday will close through the weekend.

The illness started in the middle of last week, and she was treated by a private medical center. She had not recently traveled to Mexico.

The confirmation came a half a day after the CDC announced that a nearly 2-year-old Mexico City boy who fell ill in Brownsville and was transported for treatment at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston was the first U.S. death.

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