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California: H1N1 case tracking

Re: California SF - tracking

Re: California SF - tracking

gsgs said:
who is this 13 year old boy, who was sampled on 25.April and has the same virus
as in New York, supposed to have been introduced by Cancun returners on 20.April ?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/GQ117035

Isolate A/California/14/2009
Host_gender M
Host_age 13
Passage_history C1
Collection_day 25
Collection_month 4
Collection_year 2009

/country="USA: California state"
/collection_date="25-Apr-2009"
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Most likely the 7th grader from Sacramento reported on April 27th. Only seven earlier cases in California from San Deigo and Imperial County. he recently returned from Mexico.

A seventh-grader from a private school in Fair Oaks has tested positive for swine flu, Sacramento County public health officials confirmed this morning.
The sample from the St. Mels School student was tested at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and came back positive, making it the first confirmed sample in Northern California, county Public Health Officer Dr. Glennah Trochet stated in a news release.
The case increases the number of confirmed swine flu cases in California to eight. There have been three confirmed cases reported in Imperial County and four confirmed cases reported in San Diego County, according to the state Department of Public Health.
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http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=223850&postcount=11

Health officials are trying to determine if a seventh-grader in Sacramento County who recently returned from Mexico is the area's first recorded case of swine flu - the strain of influenza that has sickened more than 1,300 in Mexico since April and is suspected in the death of more than 80 in that country.
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post # 3 above.
 
Re: California: H1N1 case tracking

Source: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=12578

34 new cases of swine flu in Santa Clara County
New total nearly doubles number of confirmed or probable cases

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The number of new swine flu (H1N1) cases has nearly doubled in Santa Clara County, according to a June 1 report from the Santa Clara County Public Health Department.

As of May 29, the department reported 34 additional probable cases of the H1N1 virus. Forty-four cases are now confirmed and 35 are probable cases, for a total of 79 cases in the county. Four people were hospitalized and have either recovered or are recovering at home, according to a June 1 press release.

The number of confirmed cases increased because confirmatory testing took place at the state and federal levels, Santa Clara County Public Health officials said.

The county will continue to consider all probable cases as confirmed H1N1 cases because public health actions do not change based on whether a case is probable or confirmed. More than 95 percent of the specimens classified as probable have been confirmed as the new H1N1 virus, according to the report.

Influenza is always a serious disease, county officials noted. Each year in the United States, seasonal influenza causes about 36,000 deaths and more than 200,000 hospitalizations. At this time, health officials do not know how severe this new flu virus (H1N1) outbreak will be in terms of illness and death compared with other influenza viruses. It's too soon to predict what will happen or how the virus might change, but this outbreak has the potential to be at least as and possibly more serious than seasonal flu, officials noted.

The Public Health Department plans to report individual cases for as long as possible, and then will use a seasonal surveillance system to track the progress of the H1N1 flu virus. Seasonal surveillance does not count individual cases, but instead monitors activity levels through a local-surveillance system based in most hospital emergency departments.

The public can find more information about the new H1N1 virus at sccphd.org or www.cdc.gov. Information is also available on the California Department of Public Health's toll-free hotline at 888-865-0564 (Monday-Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.)

? Sue Dremann
 
Re: California: H1N1 case tracking

April 26 (Sunday)
Diocesan officials said Sunday[26.Apr.] that the seventh grader had recently returned from a family vacation in Mexico. The student went home ill from school Monday [Apr.20] and another student was out ill Wednesday[22.Apr]. By Friday[24.Apr], seven students were out sick. The first student who became ill was tested by county health officials Friday[24.Apr], and the test was positive for several strains of influenza.
[uhh] Those results were sent to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. A determination is expected early this week.
Church officials said they are working in cooperation and consultation with the county health department, said Kevin Eckery, diocesan spokesperson.
Sacramento County has a program where doctors submit flu samples for analysis. On Saturday[26.Apr], a doctor sent the sample from the St. Mel student[which tested it on Friday,25.April,one day before if was sent ?]. The testing found an unidentified strain of influenza A virus.
The county is sending the sample to a Centers for Disease Control lab in Atlanta. It will arrive at 9 a.m. Monday, when it will be tested along with samples from around the country. Trochet said it is unclear how long the testing will take.
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The seventh-grader, who was not identified by officials or the school, was tested locally and found to be infected with a type-A influenza, Sacramento Public Health Division spokesman Kerry Shearer told Reuters.
"But we were unable to sub-type it so we sent it to the CDC for further analysis," he said, adding that the student had not traveled to Mexico but may have been in contact with someone who had.


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are there frequently such incorrectnesses,contradictions ? Are they maybe trying to
"construct" the Mexican connection ?
It's strange, I searched a few cases connected to the NY-outbreak
and found several such things already.
If that seventh-grader is indeed the 13-year-old male from A/California/14/2009-04-25
and had symptoms on 20.April then he could be close to the source of the outbreak
in New York,St.Francis,21April-


Strangely enough, it is not reported when the Mexico-returners
at St.Frances developed symptoms except in one case, which was
on 21.Apr and on 22.Apr in another report. Not earlier than the
other cases. None had symptoms on 19.Apr.
 
Re: California: H1N1 case tracking

gsgs - here is the list of the first few H1N1 cases in USA, before the information dried up and I stopped tabulating them.

USA Swine Flu Case Listing
_______________________________________________________________________________________
caseid: 1
Country: USA
State: CA
County: Imperial
Sex: F
Age: 9
Symptom onset: 3/28/2009
Hospital Admission:
Death:
Outcome: R
Date Sample Submitted:
Date Confirmed: 4/15/2009
Cluster Number:
Relation:
Sequence: A/California/05/2009
Hyperlink
4/22/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=220361&postcount=37
4/22/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=220324&postcount=35

_______________________________________________________________________________________
caseid: 2
Country: USA
State: CA
County: San Diego
Sex: M
Age: 10
Symptom onset: 3/30/2009
Hospital Admission:
Death:
Outcome: R
Date Sample Submitted:
Date Confirmed:
Cluster Number:
Relation:
Sequence: A/California/04/2009
Hyperlink
4/22/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=220361&postcount=37
4/22/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=220324&postcount=35

_______________________________________________________________________________________
caseid: 3
Country: USA
State: CA
County: San Diego
Sex: F
Age: 16
Symptom onset: 4/5/2009
Hospital Admission:
Death:
Outcome: R
Date Sample Submitted:
Date Confirmed:
Cluster Number: 1
Relation: Daughter of case 4
Sequence:
Hyperlink
4/22/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=220324&postcount=35
4/24/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=221613&postcount=2

_______________________________________________________________________________________
caseid: 4
Country: USA
State: CA
County: San Diego
Sex: M
Age: 54
Symptom onset: 4/6/2009
Hospital Admission:
Death:
Outcome: R
Date Sample Submitted:
Date Confirmed:
Cluster Number: 1
Relation: Father of case 3
Sequence: A/California/07/2009
Hyperlink
4/22/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=220324&postcount=35
4/24/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=221613&postcount=2

_______________________________________________________________________________________
caseid: 5
Country: USA
State: TX
County: Guadalupe
Sex: M
Age: 16
Symptom onset: 4/10/2009
Hospital Admission:
Death:
Outcome: R
Date Sample Submitted:
Date Confirmed:
Cluster Number: 2
Relation: School mate of 7
Sequence: A/Texas/04/2009?
Hyperlink
4/23/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=220965&postcount=63
4/24/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=221613&postcount=2

_______________________________________________________________________________________
caseid: 6
Country: USA
State: CA
County: Imperial
Sex: F
Age: 41
Symptom onset: 4/12/2009
Hospital Admission: 4/15/2009
Death:
Outcome: R
Date Sample Submitted:
Date Confirmed:
Cluster Number:
Relation:
Sequence: A/California/06/2009
Hyperlink
4/23/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=220963&postcount=62
4/24/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=221613&postcount=2

_______________________________________________________________________________________
caseid: 7
Country: USA
State: TX
County: Guadalupe
Sex: M
Age: 16
Symptom onset: 4/14/2009
Hospital Admission:
Death:
Outcome: R
Date Sample Submitted:
Date Confirmed:
Cluster Number: 2
Relation: School mate of 5
Sequence: A/Texas/05/2009?
Hyperlink
4/23/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=220965&postcount=63
4/24/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=221613&postcount=2

_______________________________________________________________________________________
caseid: 8
Country: USA
State: CA
County: San Deigo
Sex: M
Age: 7
Symptom onset:
Hospital Admission:
Death:
Outcome:
Date Sample Submitted:
Date Confirmed: 4/24/2009
Cluster Number:
Relation:
Sequence: A/California/09/2009
Hyperlink
4/24/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=221613&postcount=2
4/24/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=220963&postcount=62

_______________________________________________________________________________________
caseid: 9
Country: USA
State: CA
County: Imperial
Sex: F
Age: 35
Symptom onset: 4/4/2009
Hospital Admission:
Death:
Outcome: R
Date Sample Submitted:
Date Confirmed:
Cluster Number:
Relation:
Sequence:
Hyperlink
4/25/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222089&postcount=91

_______________________________________________________________________________________
caseid: 10
Country: USA
State: KS
County: Dickinson
Sex: M
Age:
Symptom onset:
Hospital Admission:
Death:
Outcome:
Date Sample Submitted:
Date Confirmed: 4/25/2009
Cluster Number: 3
Relation: Husband of Case 11
Sequence:
Hyperlink
4/25/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222065&postcount=7

_______________________________________________________________________________________
caseid: 11
Country: USA
State: KS
County: Dickinson
Sex: F
Age:
Symptom onset:
Hospital Admission:
Death:
Outcome:
Date Sample Submitted:
Date Confirmed: 4/25/2009
Cluster Number: 3
Relation: Wife of Case 10
Sequence:
Hyperlink
4/25/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222065&postcount=7

_______________________________________________________________________________________
caseid: 12
Country: USA
State: OH
County: Lorain
Sex: M
Age: 9
Symptom onset:
Hospital Admission:
Death:
Outcome:
Date Sample Submitted:
Date Confirmed:
Cluster Number:
Relation:
Sequence:
Hyperlink
4/26/2009
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222591&postcount=2
 
Re: California: H1N1 case tracking

Monday, April 27th, 2009

This is a breaking story. A kid in Sacramento coming back from Cancun has experienced flu-like symptoms, and swabs are being sent to CDC for further testing. Seven of his classmates also came down with flu-like symptoms.
?A seventh-grader at St. Mel who recently returned from a family vacation to Cancun, Mexico, felt ill last Monday and went home. On Wednesday, a classmate also missed school with flulike symptoms, and by Friday seven students were out, including four who complained of flulike symptoms, said Kevin Eckery, a spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento. ?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/27/MNIT179GIV.DTL&type=printable
Note that this does not prove there is flu in Cancun. The kid might have gone thru Mexico City, or be infected in some other way. We will be monitoring the situation closely and will report it here.

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OK, since I found meanwhile several other cases linked to Cancun
(see the thread in the NY-subforum)
and it matches with the sequences and onset dates, I assume
that this virus originated in Cancun.
And not in Southern California,main-Mexico, or Texas as the
other Calicornian M**flu viruses
 
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