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New York school teacher dies of swine flu

New York's first outbreak of swine flu occurred when people began falling ill following the return of several students from vacations in Mexico.

A New York school teacher died of swine flu on Sunday, the first fatality from the virus in the U.S. state.

Mitchell Wiener, the assistant headmaster of Intermediate School 238 in Hollis, Queens, became the sixth person to die from swine flu in the United States.

New York's first outbreak of swine flu occurred three weeks ago, when about 700 students and 300 other people associated with a Catholic high school in Queens began falling ill following the return of several students from vacations in Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak. The school was closed.

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