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Medical Miracle: H1N1 Victim Returns Home After Being On Her Deathbed

RIVERBANK (CBS13) ? A Riverbank woman says it?s a medical miracle she?s alive after she nearly died from the H1N1 virus.

CBS13 captured her happy homecoming after a nearly month-long stay in the hospital.

Fernanda Floren was by all means healthy at 51 years old. But more than three weeks ago, she was rushed to the hospital with flu-like symptoms and put on life support the next day.

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http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014...tim-returns-home-after-being-on-her-deathbed/

 

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Flu death toll up to 20 in Kern County

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) ? Both the numbers of deaths and hospitalizations increased this week from "influenza-like illness" in Kern County.

The Kern County Health Services Department releases updated figures each Tuesday. Reported deaths increased this week to 20, from 18 a week ago. Reported hospitalizations increased to 109 from 104.

Many of the flu deaths are from the H1N1 strain of the virus, with both young and elderly victims.


http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/Flu-death-toll-up-to-20-in-Kern-County-247164671.html

 

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Sacramento County?s high-poverty areas hit hardest by fatal flu

As the influenza virus marched across Sacramento County this flu season, a clear pattern emerged showing where the suffering has been most intense.

Many of the deaths and hospitalizations in intensive care units have occurred in low-income, densely packed neighborhoods, where people are more likely to rely on public transit and to have less access to health insurance than the region-wide average.

High unemployment and high concentrations of working-age adults who have given up looking for jobs are more common in the neighborhoods hardest hit. In these areas, generations of families, many of whom are foreign-born, tend to share housing or crowd into small homes, according to a Sacramento Bee analysis of ZIP codes and U.S. census demographics.

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http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/04/6206038/sacramento-countys-high-poverty.html

 

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Source: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sacbee/obituary.aspx?n=Kris-WELSH&pid=169970341


Obituary

WELSH, Kris
On February 27, 2014, Kris Welsh passed away, with family at her bedside, at the age of 61 as a result of complications due to the H1N1 flu...