Brazil Teenager With Flu Dies in Flight From U.S., Globo Says

Onset: 7/29
DOD: 8/2

Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- A 15-year-old Brazilian girl who died on a flight yesterday to Sao Paulo from the U.S. was taking Tamiflu, the antiviral drug used to treat swine flu, O Globo reported.

The teenager’s aunt said the girl was healthy when she traveled to the U.S. two weeks ago to visit Disneyworld and fell ill on July 29, the Rio de Janeiro-based newspaper reported. She visited a hospital in Orlando and was given Tamiflu, which can be prescribed for the swine flu, also known as the H1N1 virus, O Globo said.

Doctors traveling on the same flight tried to revive the girl after her heart and breathing had stopped, O Globo said.

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