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Lake County teen dies of complications from swine flu

A 15-year-old Lake County girl has died of complications from the H1N1 flu, Lake County Health Department officials said Wednesday.

The unidentified girl died Tuesday at a hospital, but health officials refused to say which hospital or where the girl lived.

She was being home-schooled and had multiple chronic medical conditions, they said.

It's the fourth H1N1-related death in Lake County. A Gurnee man, and Gurnee woman and a Long Grove woman also have died from H1N1-related illnesses, officials said.

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