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Associated Press - September 18, 2009 10:45 AM ET
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - State health officials say a 21-year-old Los Alamos County woman who died of swine flu had no chronic health conditions or risk factors for complications from the virus.
Department of Health spokesman Chris Minnick says that with any flu, relatively healthy people develop serious complications or die.
He says state health officials are not considering the woman's death Sunday as an indicator of change in the virus.
The Albuquerque Journal identifies her as Aracely Marquez Marquez.
She was the fourth New Mexican to die of swine flu. Officials say all 3 of the other women who died had underlying health conditions that put them at risk for complications.
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