February 18, 2009
Posted: 1:33 am
February 18, 2009
A 10-year-old Long Island girl whose mysterious death sparked a meningitis scare at her elementary school actually died from the flu, health officials said yesterday.
The fifth-grader at Northside Elementary in Levittown, not identified by officials, died early Saturday morning at a local hospital after falling sick just a few hours earlier.
"It happened so quickly," the girl's grieving mother Theresa Barbaro said on Monday. "There was no explanation."
The school sent out an e-mail alert the next day to parents and posted a message on its Web site suggesting that the girl may have died from viral meningitis.
But the Nassau County Department of Health said yesterday that the "presumptive cause of death in the 10-year-old Levittown student" was "influenza A," the more serious form of the disease.
Barbaro blasted her daughter's school for setting off a meningitis scare before her child's cause of death was determined.
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