New York has eighth swine flu death

NEW YORK, June 6 (UPI) -- Another person has died in New York City of swine flu, the eighth death since the influenza strain first appeared in April, the city's Health Department says.

Newsday said the only details released by the department regarding the most recent H1N1 influenza victim were that the individual was at least 65 years old and also had a secondary health condition.

Since April, the city also has seen 375 people hospitalized with swine flu.

Among those individuals with confirmed H1N1 cases have been more than 25 inmates from the Riker's Island jail facility in New York.

The confirmed swine flu cases among the site's inmate population prompted a quarantine of several inmates, The New York Daily News said.

The Riker's Island situation has also prompted a 45-year-old inmate named Harold Sherwood to file a notice of claim against the city of New York.

The Daily News said Sherwood's claim details how the inmate was at the jail facility's Anna M. Kross Center when the quarantine occurred. Additional details of the claim were not reported.