SHOOT: H1N1 looks pretty grim in Queens. The kid's sister and brother also have flu. Are you from Queens? Or New York? What are you experiencing? Are you afraid?
NEW YORK (AFP) — New York medical authorities were testing Tuesday whether swine flu killed a 16-month-old boy who died with a high fever.
"We don't know yet whether the child who died contracted the H1N1 virus," Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a press conference. "The tests won't be done till later today or tomorrow."
New Yorkers are on high alert after the city's first fatality from swine flu, a school vice principal who died over the weekend.
The toddler who died was admitted to hospital in the Queens neighborhood with a strong fever, which is a symptom of both ordinary flu and the new H1N1 strain, the hospital said. His sister and brother also had flu-like symptoms.
Fifteen schools in the city have been temporarily closed, according to latest figures, nearly all of them in the Queens neighborhood.
Another outbreak being scrutinized is at a detention center on Rikers Island, where there were four confirmed cases, Bloomberg said.
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