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Texas - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 (other than Dallas or Houston areas)
H1N1 Claims Life Of 41-Year-Old North Texas Father
January 9, 2014 5:15 PM
Arezow Doost
KRUM (CBSDFW.COM) ? As the flu continues to spread across North Texas one woman says a deadly strain of the H1N1 virus killed her otherwise healthy husband.
Chris Waskom was very involved with his church in Krum. The congregation and his family say his death has been devastating but has pushed them to spread a very important message...
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<tr style="float: center;"><td style="font-size: 90%;">?[He had] no pre-existing medical condition? he didn?t smoke. He was a perfectly healthy,? she said . . . doctors told him he had bronchitis.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 100%;">'Lacy Waskom, Widow of Chris Waskom:
Several trips to the doctor resulted in the same diagnosis and then on New Years Eve Chris died at home. Lacy said,
?He laid down to take a nap and two hours later I went to check on him and found him.?'
Re: Texas - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 (other than Dallas or Houston areas)
pH1N1 TamiFlu Resistance Data Sparsity Risk Factors Texas
The Public Health report on January 12, 2014 from the State of Texas communicated twoTamiFlu Resistant cases.
Basic information framing those cases such as clinical progressions / outcomes, the full set of sensitivity test results and the genetic sequences are required for the public to understand the risk factors involved in this flu season (s2013).
Although sequence deposits are being made by federal public health officials from cases in Low Intensity states, no sequences have been deposited for the State of Texas during the time period of the current High Intensitycirculation. Of the 77 sequences deposited by federal health officials since the mid-December onset of High IntensitypH1N1, 63 cover the United States, but the only 2 sequences sampled in Texas are prior to the dangerous period.
The latest Texas sequence on file describes a common background that was sampled at an un-stipulated location on 2013-12-01. That most recent Texas sequence bears amino acid identity to the GenoTypicNA275YTamiFlu Resistant sequence from a nearby Southern state sampled two weeks earlier.
No information has been made public about the Hemagglutinin genetics surrounding the reported TexasAntiViral Drug Resistant cases.
A bed of very dangerouspredicted genetic changes appears to be circulating in Texaswithout surveillance to protect the great state's 26 million citizens.
El Paso flu-related deaths rise to 11
By Aaron Martinez / El Paso Times
Posted: 01/23/2014 02:54:56 PM MST
The El Paso Department of Health announced on Thursday that the number of flu-related deaths in the area is now at 11.
Officials said eight of the 11 victims tested positive for the H1N1 influenza virus strain. The 11 deaths include six middle-age patients, four elderly patients and one young adult. All except the young adult had underlying conditions...
AUSTIN (KXAN) - On Tuesday, the eleventh flu-related death was reported in Austin.
Of the 11 deceased, four of them were 60 years of age or older, six died in December 2013 and the rest in January 2014. Only one of the flu-related deaths has been associated with a child. Nationally, 7.5 percent of the week's mortalities were attributed to pneumonia and influenza, according to the 122 Cities Mortality Reporting System.
As of yet, no flu deaths have been reported in Williamson County, according to the health department there.
pH1N1 s2013
Fatalities Exceed pH1N1 2009 Travis County, Texas
With less than one month of avian-influencedpH1N1 surge this season, 22% more deaths have been officially reported (11 Deaths) in Travis County than in the entire2009 Pandemic (9 Deaths).
pH1N1decision-making using facts requires deploying current data and making rational projections based on knowledge of the viral genetics and the clinical presentation / progression.
Re: Texas - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 (other than Dallas or Houston areas)
Eleventh flu-related death in Travis Co.
AUSTIN (KXAN) - On Tuesday, the eleventh flu-related death was reported in Austin.
Of the 11 deceased, four of them were 60 years of age or older, six died in December 2013 and the rest in January 2014. Only one of the flu-related deaths has been associated with a child. Nationally, 7.5 percent of the week's mortalities were attributed to pneumonia and influenza, according to the 122 Cities Mortality Reporting System.
As of yet, no flu deaths have been reported in Williamson County, according to the health department there.
The limits of testing and the limits of accurate information transfer are being stretched at this moment of the s2013 pH1N1 epidemic in Texas.
A total of 6 sequences are on file from US Public Health sources to describe the entire state of Texas for the current season (s2013) and the inter-season (i2013). Genetic change counts are featured for each sequence's Hemagglutinin (HA) and Neuraminidase (NA) segment.
HA22 & NA15 for Texas 2013-December
HA21 & NA18 for Texas 2013-November
HA23 & NA16 for Texas 2013-October
HA21 & NA14 for Texas 2013-September
HA26 & NA13 for Texas 2013-August
HA23 & NA16 for Texas 2013-July
The comprehensive search shows a combined count of 35 to 39 genetic changes for Texas cases in the only two segments that are targeted by the vaccine. If the virus is clearly different and the vaccine is clearly unchanged from 2009, then what are the circumstances around which the unchanged vaccine has been proven as a match to the changed virus reservoir, a circulation producing a very different clinical outcome pattern?
Have properly handled samples from the current cases from Texas been under Hemagglutinin Inhibition assay against sera from ferrets challenged only with the vaccine strain, CA/07?
Are vaccinated patients in the Critical Care units? How many patients who took a vaccine that "doctors say" is "proving to be a good match" have died?
Re: Texas - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 (other than Dallas or Houston areas)
Family Speaks Out After Former Pecos Police Officer Dies From H1N1
PECOS- Ishmael "Smiley" Gamboa was well known and loved by many in the Pecos community, but sadly "Smiley" became sick just a few weeks ago. On Monday morning, his family tells NewsWest 9 he lost his life to H1N1.
"I was totally shocked I said it can't be, I mean is it this bad? But you know we had heard that this bad virus or this bad flu. H1N1 is going around and all that but we never expected it to hit our family so close to home," Gamboa's sister, Sue Carrasco, said.
"Smiley" served in the Pecos Police Department for over 10 years before he started truck driving. Pecos Police Chief Clay McKinney said "Smiley" was one of his best officers and everyone enjoyed working alongside him.
Ishmael "Smiley" Gamboa was well known and loved by many in the Pecos community, but sadly "Smiley" became sick just a few weeks ago. On Monday morning, his family tells NewsWest 9 he lost his life to H1N1.
Somehow this one was missed?
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Updated: Monday, January 13, 2014, 2:55 PM CST
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 100%;">'The Austin-Travis County Health Department has confirmed six deaths this flu season, ahead of the pace in 2009 when in all nine people died.'
With less than one month of avian-influencedpH1N1 surge this season, more deaths have been officially reported (10 Deaths) in Travis County than in the entire2009 Pandemic (9 Deaths), a period when the virus was deemedNovel and dangerous.
That statistical comparison is made all the more concerning when we take into account the political scenario.
A progression of sheets within the published Open-Access workbook demonstrates the crowd-sourced figures as they have been gathered and reported on 4 occasions between January 5 and January 17, 2014.
Distribution of pH1N1 Influenza Fatalities in Texas [map by Al]
An access of information collected and collated by citizen volunteers shows that Austin (Travis County) official reports have not increased the count of Influenza fatalities at a rate commensurate with the level of patients that have been and are presently being treated in Intensive Care / Critical Care units. In fact, no early reporting county in Texas with deaths above 5 has increased except for Dallas County since the initial January 5, 2014 accumulation of Texas Fatality by County stats?
Did the Critical Care facilities across Harris, Hidalgo and Travis Counties instantly discover a new treatment that reduced death to a rate nearing zero? If so, that modality would have been communicated widely via a federal public health broadcast.
If just 20% of those patients in Critical Care at this time are not returned to health during the advanced, heroic medical treatment, then Travis County would be reporting 11 more fatalities for a total more than 230% of the entire2009 Pandemic.
And that's if new severe cases come to a full halt at this moment.
Additional accurate data, including clinical statistics from the county level and genetic sequences pertinent to these flashfires from the federal public health level, would allow higher quality guidance from actionable data and, perhaps even, decision-making based on facts.
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Somehow this one was missed?
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 100%;">'The Austin-Travis County Health Department has confirmed six deaths this flu season, ahead of the pace in 2009 when in all nine people died.'
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