July 30, 2009, 8:20 pm
Swine flu is believed to have claimed the country's first frontline health worker.
Hutt District Health Board (DHB) confirmed yesterday that a 39-year-old woman, who died of the virus in Wellington Hospital, on Monday worked at Hutt Hospital, The Dominion Post reported.
The woman, believed to have been a nurse in a children's ward, is one of 13 confirmed to have died from the virus in New Zealand although the chief coroner is investigating another 20 suspected deaths from the virus.
The woman died from a rare complication on Monday after 11 days in intensive care.
She had suffered a miscarriage within the previous two months, but it was not known whether she had the virus at the time she miscarried.
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