Autopsy finds pneumonia caused prisoner?s death in March 2011 - influenza confirmed

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http://new.bangordailynews.com/2011...oner’s-death-to-be-pneumonia/?ref=mostReadBox

Autopsy finds pneumonia caused prisoner’s death

WARREN, Maine — Pneumonia killed a prisoner at the Bolduc Correctional Facility, according to an autopsy performed Tuesday.

Ryan Allan Calor, 29, of Northfield was found dead in his cell during a morning count of prisoners at the Warren minimum security prison...more at link

(JimO Comment - 29-yo males don't just suddenly die of pneumonia on a regular basis, do they?)

 

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Re: Autopsy finds pneumonia caused prisoner?s death

Re: Autopsy finds pneumonia caused prisoner?s death

A year late, but flu essentially confirmed.

http://bangordailynews.com/2012/04/...-from-the-flu-at-infected-prison-agency-says/

Maine inmate likely died from the flu at infected prison, agency says
By Heather Steeves, BDN Staff,
and Dawn Gagnon, BDN Staff
Posted April 05, 2012, at 12:54 p.m.
Last modified April 05, 2012, at 7:43 p.m. WARREN, Maine — A prison inmate in Warren likely died last year from the flu, a disease that most prisoners are not given vaccinations for, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A post on the agency’s website said Thursday that “on March 8, 2011, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention received a laboratory report of a positive influenza specimen from an intensive-care unit patient who was an inmate at a prison (facility A). That same day, the state medical examiner notified Maine CDC of an inmate death suspected to be have been caused by influenza at another, nearby prison (facility B).”

The prisoner who died was described as a “previously healthy” 29-year-old male who experienced an “onset of rapidly progressive respiratory symptoms on March 7 [2011].” The report indicated that he had never been vaccinated for the influenza. He died on March 8.

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