Re: Alaska - eff. 2/15 (1 new death; total 11 for season)
Re: Alaska - eff. 2/15 (1 new death; total 11 for season)
According to the states figures for the period prior to Sep 1, 2009, there were 2 deaths prior to that date.
See:
http://www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/id/influenza/confirmed.htm
There is some confusion over the Alaskan woman who died in Spokane, WA. Since she acquired the infection while in Washington & died in Washington, many sources do not include her death in the Alaska numbers, which I believe is the best way to count it. If we're trying to locate where disease exists, then numbers should reflect the location where people acquired the infection, not their residential location.
The variance might also reflect one of the early cases on a cruise ship, where the person caught the infection in California or Washington, but became sick while traveling in the SE Alaskan waters.
Either way, the illness is still circulating, but whether she caught it locally in Homer or elsewhere would be significant. Given her job, she could have caught it while in meetings in Anchorage, Juneau, or out-of-state.
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