May 18th, 2009 - The Seattle Times
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NEW YORK - An assistant principal at a New York school who had been hospitalized with swine flu died Sunday evening, the first death in New York State from the outbreak.
Meanwhile, the number of swine-flu cases in Japan soared over the weekend, raising the likelihood that the World Health Organization (WHO) soon will have to raise its pandemic alert level to 6, the highest level.
The assistant principal, Mitchell Wiener, had been "overwhelmed" by the illness despite treatment with an experimental drug, according to Ole Pedersen, a spokesman for Flushing Hospital Medical Center.
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