A child in Texas has become the first fatality from swine flu in the United States, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.
Five-year-old Edgar Hernandez, known as "patient zero" survived the earliest documented case of swine flu.
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"I can confirm the very sad news out of Texas that a child has died of the H1N1 virus," the CDC's Dr. Richard Besser said.
As confirmed cases of swine flu have risen to at least 112, health officials think they may have found "patient zero" in the global outbreak -- in a small village in the mountains of Mexico.
La Gloria, tucked away off a dusty road flanked by pig farms, is where the earliest case of swine flu was confirmed.
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