A state medical examiner found complications of swine flu caused the death of a 19-year-old Haines woman in Juneau Nov. 22.
Cynthia Phillips was the 12th death in Alaska associated with the flu strain and appears to be one of only a couple H1N1 deaths in Alaska that didn’t involve a chronic, pre-existing health condition that aggravated the flu.
Phillips had been suffering from a respiratory ailment several days at the time of her death.