Young Indiana man dies of swine flu

CINCINNATI, July 12 (UPI) -- A 19-year-old man has become the first person in Indiana to die of swine flu, health officials said.

Matthew McIntosh died July 5 in a hospital in Cincinnati after collapsing in a barn in Dearborn County in southeastern Indiana, The Indianapolis Star reported Saturday.

McIntosh's death was unusual because he was healthy with no underlying illness, health officials said. Most of the 211 people believed to have died from infection with the H1N1 virus in the United States have suffered from conditions that made them vulnerable.

O'Dell Owens, the coroner in Hamilton County, Ohio, said an autopsy showed McIntosh had no other adverse health conditions. Owens said McIntosh's sister, who became ill about the same time and is in intensive care, tested negative for H1N1, but McIntosh tested positive.