CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Nueces County officials said a Corpus Christi man has died from the swine flu, making him the second Texan to die from the disease.

The 33-year-old man died May 6 after getting sick earlier in the month, said Dr. William Burgin Jr., the medical authority for the Corpus Christi-Nueces County Health District. The man had other medical conditions, including heart problems, Burgin said.

The Nueces County Medical Examiner's Office identified him as Carlos Garnica and said the cause of death was viral pneumonia due to swine flu. Contributing conditions included an underactive thyroid gland, abnormal enlargement of the heart due to high blood pressure, sleep apnea and morbid obesity.

"His other problems aggravated his condition," Burgin said. "They prevented him from breathing well, clearing his airways. He had conditions that decreased his immunity somewhat and made it more difficult for him to survive any viral illness."

Burgin says the man, a single parent, had three children and that only one of the kids got sick. The child was treated with Tamiflu and is now doing better. All three children are staying with relatives.

State health department spokesman Doug McBride said the agency's lab in Austin confirmed swine flu and notified Nueces County health officials about the test results Friday morning.

"He saw a doctor, who started him on Tamiflu but then he got sicker," Burgin said.

The man went back to his doctor and was admitted to a hospital where he died.

A Harlingen woman died earlier this month from swine flu. Judy Trunnell, a 33-year-old pregnant mother and teacher died May 5. She had been hospitalized since April 19. During that time she had slipped into a coma and gave birth to a healthy baby girl, delivered by Cesarean section. Trunnell, who was 35 weeks pregnant, had asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and a skin condition called psoriasis.

The other swine flu death in Texas was that of a Mexico City toddler who also had other health problems and had been visiting relatives in Brownsville, near Harlingen. He died at a Houston children's hospital.

Two other U.S. deaths were in Arizona and Washington state.