ELIZABETH, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — A public school student in Elizabeth, New Jersey has died, and the school district said the cause was flu-related symptoms.
If the flu is confirmed by health officials to be the cause, the child will be the third pediatric flu victim to die in New Jersey this season.
As CBS2’s Ali Bauman reported, Elizabeth Schools Supt. Olga Hugelmeyer announced in a letter late Sunday that the school district had “lost one of its own.” No information on the student’s age or gender was released.
Hugelmeyer’s letter said it had been confirmed that the student had been diagnosed with influenza, but it was not known late Sunday whether the flu was “the primary contributing factor” for the child’s death. But School District spokesman Pat Politano later said the child did die due to flu-related symptoms.
The New Jersey Department of Health said late Sunday that it was “investigating for possible cause of a Union County child’s untimely death.”
One Elizabeth parent said such a death is what parents have been fearing throughout this flu season.
“It’s scary, you know, my heart breaks for this family. Losing a child, I mean, is unimaginable, but you know, I think that we need to protect the kids that are now in our school district – like I said, not only the children, but the staff,” said Christina Moreira.
Source :- cbslocal
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