Associated Press - October 23, 2009 10:25 AM ET

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A 30-year-old Medford woman with swine flu has been placed on lifesaving equipment at a Portland hospital.

Jacquelyn Cordero was in Legacy Emanuel Medical Center late Thursday, where she was connected to a machine that provides cardiac and respiratory support to patients whose heart and lungs are severely diseased or damaged.

No such machine was available in Jackson County.

Her illness is the third misfortune to strike the extended family since mid-September.

Her uncle, Army Sgt. Tom Rollason of Medford, was critically wounded last month in Afghanistan.

A day after the sergeant was injured by the roadside bomb, his father died from cancer.

The Mail Tribune newspaper reports that another Southern Oregon resident - 32-year-old Zachary Painter of Grants Pass - was also in critical condition at the Portland hospital after being diagnosed with the H1N1 virus.

Information from: Mail Tribune, http://www.mailtribune.com/

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