Star-Telegram: 3 more in D-FW die of flu complications

Three more North Texas residents have died from complications involving Type A influenza, officials said Tuesday, as Tarrant County Public Health prepared to distribute the county’s first doses of H1N1 vaccine.

Angela Ward, 43, a Willow Park resident who was an educational aide at Mary Martin Elementary in Weatherford, died Monday after tests showed she had pneumonia and Type A influenza, school district officials said. Tests are being conducted to determine whether she had H1N1.

Ward was hospitalized at Weatherford Regional Medical Center on Friday after a brief illness that began Wednesday evening, and she was transferred to Plaza Medical Center after the first of two cardiac arrests, the district said.

"The district is mourning," spokesman Derick Moore said. "We lost a member of our WISD family."

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