A first grader at Shuang Wen PS 184 Chinatown died yesterday after becoming very ill . The AP says that Jasmine Man was sick and then fell unconscious in the afternoon. The school's principal performed CPR on the six year-old, who died at Beekman Downtown Hospital. The ME's office will determine the cause of death, but at this point, there were no signs of trauma. Shuang Wen is the only public school to offer education in both English and Mandarin, and Rupert Murdoch has donated money to the school, which is apparently very popular with non-Chinatown residents, according to this NY Sun article last year.




my guess is idopathic left ventricular hypertrophy. Soar throat could be due to back up pressure on vagus nerve? headaches due to ineffecient stroke volume. these are always so shocking. plus, i think somebody died on the downtown LAL @ 72nd st. this morning. MTA had the track power off and trains rerouted.
$5 says it was SARS.
$5 says it was SARS.
One of the interesting things about the news coverage is how the tv stories picked up that bogus babysitter (confirmed by the family; they did not even know who this person was), and how her info then became fact ("the girl had a history of headaches"). Is the press always like this - taking heresy and presenting it as fact so that it becomes fact in the public eye? What shoddy journalism.