Breaking News: 1st NYC Swine Flu Death Reported
The swine flu virus claimed its first New York victim Sunday with the death of an assistant principal at a Queens public school who had fallen sick last week.
Mitchell Wiener, the assistant principal at IS 238 in Hollis, died Sunday at 6:17 p.m. at Flushing Hospital Medical Center, the hospital said.
In a statement Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said, “We mourn the loss of Mitchell Wiener, the assistant principal of IS 238, who died this evening. Mr. Wiener was hired as a substitute teacher in March, 1978 and quickly began shaping generations of students from Hollis, Queens as a math teacher from 1978 to 2007, and since then as assistant principal.
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