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Camden Middle School teacher diesUpdated: Nov 05, 2009 10:24 AM EST
KERSHAW COUNTY, SC (WIS) - A 7th grade math teacher at Camden Middle School, Leon Kats, has died after his wife said tests came back positive for swine flu.
Jennifer Kats, the wife of 54-year-old Leon Kats, says Leon went to Moncrief Army Hospital at Fort Jackson last Wednesday, Oct. 28, because he wasn't feeling well. He was coughing and had a fever. She says doctors there diagnosed him with pneumonia, and he got rapidly worse.
On Friday, he went to Palmetto Health Richland. By Saturday morning, he was in intensive care and on a respirator.
Jennifer says her husband Leon passed away Wednesday night at 11pm at Palmetto Health Richland.
Jennifer Kats said as far as she knew, Leon had no underlying medical conditions that could have contributed to his death.
She said test results that she received Wednesday came back positive for swine flu. The tests were performed at Moncrief Hospital and she says other tests were taken, but have come back inconclusive.
The schoold district says counselors are at the school to help with the grieving process.
Leon Kats had been with the school district since 1997.
We'll post more information as it becomes available.
Camden Middle School teacher diesUpdated: Nov 05, 2009 10:24 AM EST
KERSHAW COUNTY, SC (WIS) - A 7th grade math teacher at Camden Middle School, Leon Kats, has died after his wife said tests came back positive for swine flu.
Jennifer Kats, the wife of 54-year-old Leon Kats, says Leon went to Moncrief Army Hospital at Fort Jackson last Wednesday, Oct. 28, because he wasn't feeling well. He was coughing and had a fever. She says doctors there diagnosed him with pneumonia, and he got rapidly worse.
On Friday, he went to Palmetto Health Richland. By Saturday morning, he was in intensive care and on a respirator.
Jennifer says her husband Leon passed away Wednesday night at 11pm at Palmetto Health Richland.
Jennifer Kats said as far as she knew, Leon had no underlying medical conditions that could have contributed to his death.
She said test results that she received Wednesday came back positive for swine flu. The tests were performed at Moncrief Hospital and she says other tests were taken, but have come back inconclusive.
The schoold district says counselors are at the school to help with the grieving process.
Leon Kats had been with the school district since 1997.
We'll post more information as it becomes available.