flu death

Minnesota health officials are reporting the first child death of the flu season.

State health officials say the flu season has claimed a fifth child victim in Minnesota, but other indicators show the influenza outbreak is fading.

Minnesota health officials say a teenager from Texas has died of complications of the flu. Relatives say 17-year-old Max Schwolert and his family were spending the holidays with his grandparents in Amery, Wis., when he got sick on Christmas Eve.

Minnesota has recorded its second flu-related death of the season. Officials say a woman in her 90s with underlying health problems died of complication from the flu. She was the second Minnesotan to die of the flu in two weeks.