Swine Flu Claims its First US Victim

Even as India tries to prevent any outbreak of the dreaded swine flu, elsewhere in the world people are bidding goodbye to their beloved. Mexico has been the worst hit country with over 20 deaths.

To prove that we lived next doors and and not world's apart the disease took its first toll on a US citizen Judy Trunnell First, who is mourned not only by the Americans but the world over. She has sort of become a mascot of swine flu victim party because of her rendering story.

"his week should have been a joyous time for Judy Trunnell, a 33-year-old schoolteacher who had just given birth to a healthy baby girl.

But the friends and relatives whose cars lined the quiet street in front of her home in a quiet subdivision Tuesday instead were mourning her, the first American with swine flu to die.
"We're grieving now," said a woman with tear-streaked eyes who declined to give her name.

In Maryland, her cousin told WMAR-TV in Baltimore that Trunnell had died after spending two weeks in the hospital. She slipped into a coma, and her baby was delivered by Cesarean section, Mario Zamora said.

"She was just a beautiful person, warm at heart. She worked with disabled children as a teacher," Zamora said. "Those that knew her will always remember her."

Texas health officials stopped short of saying that swine flu caused Trunnell's death. State health department spokeswoman Carrie Williams said the schoolteacher had "chronic underlying health conditions" but wouldn't give any more details.

She died early Tuesday after being hospitalized since April 19, said Leonel Lopez, Cameron County epidemiologist."

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