Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
A family left behind by the H1N1 virus
Virginia Romo was pregnant with her sixth child when she caught the swine flu. Her husband and children, raising the baby on their own, are still stunned at how swiftly the disease took her from them.
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The cause of death was pneumonia, believed to have been a complication of the H1N1 virus she caught last spring at the dawn of the outbreak. One of about 11,000 swine flu deaths nationwide, Romo's in many ways typifies the pandemic. She was young, poor, pregnant and Latina.
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The story continues at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-sci-flu-death8-2010feb08,0,1053278.story
Virginia Romo was pregnant with her sixth child when she caught the swine flu. Her husband and children, raising the baby on their own, are still stunned at how swiftly the disease took her from them.
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The cause of death was pneumonia, believed to have been a complication of the H1N1 virus she caught last spring at the dawn of the outbreak. One of about 11,000 swine flu deaths nationwide, Romo's in many ways typifies the pandemic. She was young, poor, pregnant and Latina.
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The story continues at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-sci-flu-death8-2010feb08,0,1053278.story