Husband Turns Heartbreak Into Swine Flu Warning

The grieving husband of a pregnant woman stricken with swine flu urged others with flu-like symptoms to get tested for the disease after his wife lost her battle this week with the H1N1 virus.

Kenny Flyte said he wants to warn others to prevent it from happening to them.

"No one should have to go with what I and our family as a whole has to go through, nobody," Flyte told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Deborah Horne.

Flyte's 27-year-old wife, Katie, was sick for seven weeks before she died Tuesday at Harborview Medical Center. The baby she was pregnant with had already been delivered -- alive -- as she lay in a drug-induced coma.

"Basically, her heart, her liver, her gallbladder, her kidneys, every organ in her body had had enough," Flyte said.

Katie Flyte was nearly seven months pregnant when she got sick. But an initial test doctors gave her came back negative, so she went home.

After she got increasingly sicker, doctors used a more sophisticated test -- a saline test -- that revealed she had swine flu. She spent the next 44 days at Harborview trying to fight it.

Her husband is warning others who may be sick, too, "to go get a test, and especially if they're pregnant; they need to make sure that they get the saline test."

Flyte said his baby girl is holding her own. She weighs 5 pounds now, more than twice her birth weight.

Anyone who wants to help the family can go to carepages.com.