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UTICA ? .Three more deaths have been attributed to H1N1, or swine flu, bringing the Oneida County total up to five, the Oneida County Health Department announced today.
All three recently reported deaths were adults. One died in October while the others died this week.
?Regrettably, we must report that two more adult deaths resulting from complications of the H1N1 virus have been confirmed and reported to the Oneida County Health Department, and that a previous death that occurred in October is now being regarded as a suspect case of H1N1-related death,? said Dr. Daniel W. Gilmore, acting county health director.
Earlier this week, the county announced that a second county resident who had contracted the virus had died from complications of the infection. The individual was identified as an adult with an underlying medical condition that attributed to his or her death.
In July, a county adolescent with an underlying medical condition, died at University Hospital in Syracuse, officials said.
Between Aug. 30 and Oct. 31, more than 17,800 people nationwide were hospitalized with confirmed influenza-like symptoms, and 672 of those have died, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The county held an open immunization clinic for at-risk target groups Wednesday which was attended by about 600 people.
Health officials are reminding the public to cover all sneezes and coughs using a tissue or the crook of the arm, avoid persons with flu-like illness, to stay home from work and school if you experience flu-like illness and to remain home for 24 hours after a fever has subsided without the use of fever reducing medications.
All three recently reported deaths were adults. One died in October while the others died this week.
?Regrettably, we must report that two more adult deaths resulting from complications of the H1N1 virus have been confirmed and reported to the Oneida County Health Department, and that a previous death that occurred in October is now being regarded as a suspect case of H1N1-related death,? said Dr. Daniel W. Gilmore, acting county health director.
Earlier this week, the county announced that a second county resident who had contracted the virus had died from complications of the infection. The individual was identified as an adult with an underlying medical condition that attributed to his or her death.
In July, a county adolescent with an underlying medical condition, died at University Hospital in Syracuse, officials said.
Between Aug. 30 and Oct. 31, more than 17,800 people nationwide were hospitalized with confirmed influenza-like symptoms, and 672 of those have died, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The county held an open immunization clinic for at-risk target groups Wednesday which was attended by about 600 people.
Health officials are reminding the public to cover all sneezes and coughs using a tissue or the crook of the arm, avoid persons with flu-like illness, to stay home from work and school if you experience flu-like illness and to remain home for 24 hours after a fever has subsided without the use of fever reducing medications.
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