May 18th, 2009 - Boston
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NEW YORK - An assistant principal died yesterday, the city's first fatality linked to the swine flu virus.
Mitchell Wiener, 55, who worked at Susan B. Anthony middle school in Queens, had been sick for nearly a week before his school was closed Thursday. He had been hospitalized and on a ventilator.
He had been overwhelmed by the illness despite treatment with an experimental drug, said Ole Pedersen, a spokesman for Flushing Hospital Medical Center, where Wiener had been a patient since Wednesday.
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