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Texas - Dallas/Ft. Worth area seasonal flu 2013/2014
FORT WORTH -- The Wooten family is still spending their days and nights huddled inside a hospital room at JPS Hospital in Fort Worth. But at least now there is hope.
In late December, Julie Wooten Shelley arrived at the emergency room with severe flu-like symptoms. There was fever, dizziness, and trouble breathing.
The Flu in Dallas County is Killing About As Many People As It Usually Does
By Eric Nicholson Fri., Jan. 10 2014 at 12:12 PM
It's flu season, a fact you've probably noticed if you've experienced a bout of achy, feverish misery, or if you've seen the equally feverish news reports on the mounting death toll in North Texas, which reached 21 yesterday.
To put this all in context, we spoke with Dallas County Health Director Zach Thompson. Here are the key takeaways.
What's with all the deaths?
Twenty-one deaths (17 in Dallas County) seems like a lot, but it's about on par with previous flu seasons, which annually claim around 25,000 lives nationwide. The difference this go-round -- and the reason you're seeing so many death-tallying news reports -- is that this is the first year Dallas County has tracked adult flu deaths.
This, Thompson says, helps local public health officials get a better understanding of the scope and severity of the outbreak...
Dallas County?s death toll from the flu climbed to 26 along with a record number of hospitalizations in the first week of January, according to a report released Friday.
The fatalities represent nine new deaths since the county?s last surveillance report a week ago.
?The outbreak is more severe this year than the last couple years,? said Dr. Christopher Perkins, medical director of Dallas County Health and Human Services.
Denton County confirmed its third flu-related death Friday ? a Highland Village woman in her 80s.
The JPS Health Network in Fort Worth also reported Friday that hospitalized flu patients appear to be sicker this flu season than last, staying nearly two days longer on average.
Local
Death Of City Worker Investigated As Possibly Flu-Related
January 10, 2014 6:25 PM
Joel Thomas
TARRANT COUNTY (CBS 11 NEWS) ? Fort Worth health workers are looking into what may be another flu-related death.
Co-workers and acquaintances say Diana Ruelas was in her mid to late 30′s. According to a CBS 11 News source, Ruelas left her job, as a City of Fort Worth Code Compliance Officer, early with flu-like symptoms. She died Thursday night...
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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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 100%;">'To put this all in context, we spoke with Dallas County Health Director Zach Thompson.
Twenty-one deaths (17 in Dallas County) seems like a lot, but it's about on par with previous flu seasons . . .
Thompson says it's not significantly more or less virulent than the A and B strains that predominated last year . . .
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<tr style="float: center;"><td style="font-size: 90%;">The difference this go-round -- and the reason you're seeing so many death-tallying news reports -- is that this is the first year Dallas County has tracked adult flu deaths.
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<tr style="float: center; font-size: 60%;"><td>By Eric Nicholson</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 100%;">'To put this all in context, we spoke with Dallas County Health Director Zach Thompson.
Twenty-one deaths (17 in Dallas County) seems like a lot, but it's about on par with previous flu seasons . . .
Thompson says it's not significantly more or less virulent than the A and B strains that predominated last year . . .
No vaccine efficacy publication has claimed rates like 99.9%.
Even carefully selected very small cohorts with known seroconversion measurements (i.e. gamed "studies") rarely claim above 65% efficacy and the "actual" versus extrapolated efficacies may be found below the 30% range for several commonly targeted groups.
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<tr style="float: center;"><td style="font-size: 140%; font-weight: bold;">The Flu in Dallas County is Killing About As Many People As It Usually Does
</td></tr>
<tr style="float: center;"><td style="font-size: 90%;">The difference this go-round -- and the reason you're seeing so many death-tallying news reports -- is that this is the first year Dallas County has tracked adult flu deaths.
</td></tr>
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<tr style="float: center; font-size: 60%;"><td>By Eric Nicholson</td></tr>
<tr style="float: center; font-size: 60%;"><td><a href="http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/" target="_blank">Dallas Observer Blog</a> Fri., Jan. 10 2014 at 12:12 PM</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 100%;">'To put this all in context, we spoke with Dallas County Health Director Zach Thompson.
Twenty-one deaths (17 in Dallas County) seems like a lot, but it's about on par with previous flu seasons . . .
Thompson says it's not significantly more or less virulent than the A and B strains that predominated last year . . .
If season 2013 is the first season for Dallas County to collect overall Influenza death counts, then how is a comparison made to past seasons?
When public health speakers rely on loose terms like "about on par", "not significantly more or less" and "about 99.9 percent effective", the public may consider acquiring a different primary source of information . . .
if facts are desired.
Sometimes fiction is entertainment and other times fiction becomes deadly.
An examination of the potential for Receptor Binding Site (RBS) Polymorphisms in the TexasHigh-CFR cases, including detailed near-term and mid-term genetic probabilities and projections
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