Wednesday, June 03, 2009 at 12:41 p.m.
Read more: Local, Swine, Flue, Death, Michigan
(AP) -- Michigan officials say a Macomb County woman is the first in the state to die from swine flu.
A spokesman from the Michigan Department of Community Health said Wednesday the woman died Tuesday from complications of the H1N1 virus.
Details about the woman's age and hometown were not immediately available.
Michigan had 298 confirmed cases of swine flu as of Tuesday afternoon. The virus had infected people in 33 of the state's 83 counties.
The Centers for Disease Control's latest update counted 17 H1N1 deaths in the U.S. The count did not include the Michigan case.
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