NEW MEXICO -- A 26-year-old Waynesburg man died Nov. 9 in Farmington, N.M., from the H1N1 influenza virus.

Kevin Brown, a 2001 graduate of Waynesburg Central High School, arrived in New Mexico just days prior to his death to work construction for Precision Staffing.

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His mother, Arleta Robison Brown, of Waynesburg, said her son had been experiencing bronchitis-type symptoms prior to leaving.

Brown had worked as a meat cutter for Giant Eagle in Waynesburg since high school.

Brown was scheduled to take his black cap test for the coal mine "but they called and said they needed him, so he went," his mother said.

On Tuesday, 4-year-old Mariah Conrad, of Crabtree, Westmoreland County, died of swine flu-like symptoms at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh.

On Saturday, 2-month-old Caryssa Jo Ann Phillips, of Washington, died from H1N1 in the same hospital.

Caryssa is believed to be the first Washington County resident claimed by the H1N1 virus.

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