State reports first swine flu death
June 15, 2009 02:36 PM
By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff
A 30-year-old Boston woman is the first person in Massachusetts to die from swine flu, public health authorities announced this afternoon.
The woman was hospitalized June 5 and results confirming that she had the swine flu virus came back on June 10. She died on Sunday, according to the Boston Public Health Commission.