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  • MO: Woman battling flu loses unborn child

    Source: http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/healt...riage/4688305/

    Woman battling flu loses unborn child
    Anne Allred, KSDK 11:49 p.m. EST January 20, 2014

    ST. LOUIS - A 29-year-old woman is unconscious in the ICU at Barnes-Jewish Hospital after contracting the H1N1 flu virus.

    Leslie Creekmore, a Fort Smith, Ark. Resident, was flown to St. Louis one week ago in order to receive highly specialized care.

    Creekmore, who was 20 weeks pregnant, spontaneously delivered her baby while she was unconscious last Thursday. The little girl Creekmore and her husband planned to name Jera, died...

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    Re: MO: Woman battling flu loses unborn child

    Fort Smith Woman Dies After Battle With H1N1



    A 29-year-old Fort Smith woman died Monday in St. Louis after battling H1N1 since early January.

    Leslie Creekmore, 29, a librarian in the Children?s Department at the Fort Smith Public Library, died Monday morning according to posts from her husband and sister-in-law on the Facebook page ?Love for Leslie.?

    On Jan. 11, Creekmore was admitted to Mercy Fort Smith with a fever and shortness of breath, where was transferred to the hospital?s ICU. On Jan. 14, she was flown to a St. Louis hospital?s cardiothoracic ICU because of complications from double pneumonia. She was 20 weeks pregnant, and lost her baby Jan. 16.

    Doctors placed Creekmore in a medically induced coma. On Friday, her liver began failing.


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