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Texas - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 (other than Dallas or Houston areas)
Memorial confirms H1N1 death
Posted: Monday, January 13, 2014 12:00 pm | Updated: 12:02 pm, Mon Jan 13, 2014.
STEVE KNIGHT/The Lufkin News
A 49-year old man died of the H1N1 flu virus last week at Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin, a hospital official told The Lufkin News Monday.
Stacy Garcia, the hospital?s chief nursing officer, said the man, whose name was not disclosed, was otherwise healthy and had no underlying medical conditions...
On Monday, the death of a patient older than 65 was confirmed. The department would reveal no further information including either the patient's gender or date of death.
Also, health officials would not reveal the strain the patient had or if they had received a flu shot.
At this time, there have been 26 confirmed flu-related deaths in Dallas County, three in Denton County and one possible flu-related death each in Wise County and Tarrant County.
In the 32 days covering 2013-10-17 to 2013-11-19, the <span style="color: #783f04;"><b>United States CDC</b></span> released a total of 49 <b><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">pH1N1</span></b> sequences at <strong>GISAID </strong>on 46 human cases<strong> </strong>sampled from February 2013 to October 2013. Geographic surveillance includes <b>America,</b> <b>Africa, Asia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay </b>and<b> Peru. </b>
The sequences in this Analytic Report describe a high level of genetic activity at the <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Hemagglutinin</span></b> <b><span style="color: #660000;">antigenic area</span></b> between <b><span style="color: blue;">aa155</span></b> and <b><span style="color: blue;">aa158</span></b> with <b>5</b> amino variations and <b>4</b> silent revisions. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">HA</span></b> <b><span style="color: blue;">225G</span></b> is present in <b><span style="color: #660000;">quasi-species</span></b> on <b>2</b> American samples and as dominant form in <b>2</b> tropical countries. The <b>Dominican Republic</b> <b><span style="color: #274e13;">HA</span></b> <b><span style="color: blue;">225G</span></b> <b><span style="color: #660000;">Low Reactor</span></b> appears on a <b><span style="color: #7f6000;">TamiFlu Resistant</span></b> strain. <b><span style="color: #7f6000;">Drug Resistance</span></b> is also found in <b>2</b> US sequences and <b>1</b> South American case.
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In the 30 days covering 2013-02-28 to 2013-03-29, the <span style="color: #783f04;"><b>United States CDC</b></span> released a total of 43 <b><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">pH1N1</span></b> sequences at <strong>GISAID </strong>on 41 human cases<strong> </strong>sampled from October 2012 to February 2013. Geographic surveillance includes <b>America,</b> <b>Africa, Asia </b>and<b> Russia. </b>Although <b><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">pH1N1</span></b> in most locales during the 2012-2013 season was the <b><span style="color: #783f04;">minority</span></b> serotype, the sequences in this Analytic Report describe a high level of human-infective diversity and an ease of avian genetic acquisition, including multiple instances demonstrating concentrated transport of <b><span style="color: #660000;">High-CFR</span></b> <b><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">pH1N1 </span><span style="color: #783f04;">Upsilon</span></b> polymorphisms onto single sequences.
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Re: Texas - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 (other than Dallas or Houston areas)
Travis County up to 8 flu deaths
Eight Travis County residents have died of flu this season, one shy of the nine who died of the H1N1 virus during the 2009 ?swine flu? pandemic, the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department said.
H1N1 is the dominant strain circulating this season, and because of concerns about high rates of illness, the health department is doing enhanced tracking of cases. The law requires only the reporting of children who die of flu.
Two of the eight patients died this month; the other six succumbed in December, health department spokeswoman Carole Barasch said. Dozens more are hospitalized in intensive-care units with flu. Last week, the health department reported that it had counted 57 ICU patients with influenza-like illness at six Travis County hospitals.
Re: Texas - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 (other than Dallas or Houston areas)
Hunt County records first flu-related death
GREENVILLE ? The flu outbreak that has resulted in an abnormally high number of hospitalizations and approximately 30 deaths in North Texas has claimed its first Hunt County victim.
Hunt Regional Medical Center at Greenville has confirmed that an elderly female patient who did not receive the influenza vaccine succumbed to Type B influenza last week. She was considered a high risk patient.
Pam Andrews, RN, medical manager for the Hunt County Health Department located in Greenville, said that she is aware of only one flu-related death of a person over 65 in Hunt County during the current flu season.
Re: Texas - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 (other than Dallas or Houston areas)
Flu-related deaths in El Paso rises to 4
EL PASO, Texas - The El Paso Health Department told KFOX14 its reporting three more flu-related deaths for the season.
Health department officials Armando Saldivar confirmed the additional deaths to KFOX14 Wednesday morning.
The number of flu-related deaths has risen to four so far this season.
The three latest are a middle-aged man and woman, both of whom had underlying medical conditions. The third was a young adult male with no known underlying medical conditions, confirmed Salvidar.
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