{"id":4510,"date":"2009-04-29T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/04\/test-will-determine-if-swine-flu-caused-cruces-death\/"},"modified":"2009-04-29T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:30:00","slug":"test-will-determine-if-swine-flu-caused-cruces-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/04\/test-will-determine-if-swine-flu-caused-cruces-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Test will determine if swine flu caused Cruces death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">An autopsy will determine whether the death of a six-year-old boy in Las Cruces was caused by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swine_influenza\" target=\"_blank\">swine flu<\/a>, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/ci_12255212\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Cody Scarbrough, a first-grader at Colombia Elementary School, was pronounced dead about 5 p.m. on Tuesday. While officials say they have no indication that the child\u2019s death was swine-flu related, preliminary autopsy results that should be available by Friday should determine whether the child had the virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">New Mexico currently has no confirmed cases of swine flu, which is rapidly spreading across the globe. The first death outside of Mexico was confirmed today in Houston, where a two-year-old boy from Mexico died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Scarborough was sent home from school on Tuesday with a fever. According to Sheriff\u2019s Sgt. Joe Reynaud, he had no symptoms prior to Tuesday. Reynaud said the child\u2019s death originally seemed to be caused by a heart attack but could have been caused by \u201canything from carbon monoxide to a birth defect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An autopsy will determine whether the death of a six-year-old boy in Las Cruces was caused by the swine flu, according to the Las Cruces Sun-News. Cody Scarbrough, a first-grader at Colombia Elementary School, was pronounced dead about 5 p.m. on Tuesday. While officials say they have no indication that the child\u2019s death was swine-flu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}