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California - San Francisco Bay area (Oakland, Alameda, Tri-Valley, Marin, Napa, Sonoma, San Mateo, San Jose, Santa Clara, Silicon Valley)

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: http://www.marinij.com/ci_24872482/swine-flu-leads-death-2-marin-residents

Swine flu leads to death of 2 Marin residents

By Richard Halstead
Marin Independent Journal
Posted: 01/08/2014 04:18:36 PM PST

...A 63-year-old man with significant chronic medical conditions died on Dec. 27 and a 48-year-old, previously healthy woman died on Jan. 6, according to Dr. Matt Willis, Marin County public health officer. Willis said the woman died of an influenza-related complication. Both were Marin residents and were hospitalized in intensive care prior to their deaths. Neither had received the influenza vaccine...
 
California - San Francisco Bay area (Oakland, Alameda, Tri-Valley, Marin, Napa, Sonoma, San Mateo, San Jose, Santa Clara, Silicon Valley)

Two recent deaths in Marin County have been linked to the flu and another two in Santa Cruz County are suspected of being flu-related, public health officials said Wednesday.

A 63-year-old man with significant chronic medical conditions died on Dec. 27, and a previously healthy 48-year-old woman died of an influenza-related complication on Jan. 6, Marin County Public Health Officer Dr. Matt Willis said. Both were hospitalized in intensive care, and neither had received a flu vaccine, Willis said.

Six other flu patients, most of them young or middle-aged adults, have been hospitalized in the county, Willis said.

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http://napavalley.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/more-flu-deaths-in-bay-area
 
Re: H1N1 Flu Death Reported in San Mateo County

Re: H1N1 Flu Death Reported in San Mateo County

Source: http://novato.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/bay-area-flu-deaths-on-the-rise

Update: Two New Flu Deaths Reported, Bringing Known Total To Eight in Bay Area

Two Marin County residents have died of complications related to the flu.
Posted by Kari Hulac (Editor) , January 09, 2014 at 01:33 PM
patch

Updated 1:16 P.M.:

By Bay City News Service and Patch Staff ? Two new flu-related deaths were reporting on Thursday, bringing the known total of deaths around the Bay Area to eight so far this flu season.

On Thursday it was reported that a woman in her 40s in San Mateo County died, and that an Alameda County resident died in December. On Wednesday it was reported that two recent deaths in Marin County have been linked to the flu and another two in Santa Cruz County...
 
CA: Sonoma County resident is 4th recent North Coast flu death

CA: Sonoma County resident is 4th recent North Coast flu death

Source: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20140109/articles/140109608


Sonoma County resident is 4th recent North Coast flu death
By MARTIN ESPINOZA
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
January 9, 2014, 2:25 PM


A 23-year-old Sonoma County resident died Wednesday from complications of the H1N1 flu, a strain similar to the virus that caused the swine flu pandemic in 2009, county health officials said..

...Holbrook would not release information about the patient out of respect for the privacy of the individual's family. She would only say that the individual was previously healthy...
 
Re: H1N1 Flu Death Reported in San Mateo County

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SMC Health Official Reports 1 Dead From Flu, 6 in ICU


It's only January, yet there has been a 200 percent increase in the number of reported flu cases in San Mateo County over 2012 according to Dr. Karen Relucio, Assistant Health Officer for the San Mateo County Health Department.

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http://belmont-ca.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/watch-smc-health-official-says-flu-cases-up-200
 
Re: 6 Flu Deaths In Bay Area Confirmed

Re: 6 Flu Deaths In Bay Area Confirmed

9 H1N1 Flu-Related Deaths Reported in Bay Area


Health officials are urging people to get vaccinated in the wake of recent flu-related deaths and a new strain of the H1N1 virus.

So far this season, in the Bay Area, nine cases of H1N1 flu-related deaths have been confirmed by officials:

San Francisco County: 1
Marin County: 2
Sonoma County: 1
Alameda County: 1
Contra Costa County: 1
Santa Clara County: 2
San Mateo County: 1


http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/health/H1N1-Flu-Death-Reported-in-San-Mateo-County-239467531.html
 
Three Valley deaths from the H1N1 flu virus

Three Valley deaths from the H1N1 flu virus

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Two people in Merced County and one person in Fresno County who died tested positive for the H1N1 flu virus.

Health Officials say they're already tracking more severe cases throughout the Valley this year compared to the same time last year.

This H1N1 strain of the flu is showing up in emergency rooms across the Valley and is hurting a younger crowd. In previous years, mainly small children and the elderly contracted the flu but experts say younger adults are now getting extremely sick.

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http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=9388026&rss=rss-kfsn-article-9388026
 
Re: Three Valley deaths from the H1N1 flu virus

Re: Three Valley deaths from the H1N1 flu virus

Four Valley adults die from swine flu

Four people have died of complications from swine flu in the central San Joaquin Valley, health officials said Thursday.

A woman in Fresno County, a man in Kings County and two people in Merced County died within the past week. The deaths are the first this flu season, and health officials said they are seeing an increase in patients requiring hospitalizations in the Valley and statewide.

http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2014/01/09/3432445/h1n1-flu-claims-lives-of-two-valley.html
 
Re: Three Valley deaths from the H1N1 flu virus

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pH1N1 Child Vaccine Escape
CDC Early 2013


<div style="text-align: center;">
<hr style="width: 30%;" />41 Cases over 43 Sequences<hr style="width: 30%;" /></div>
Introduction

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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Re: Three Valley deaths from the H1N1 flu virus

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pH1N1 Drug Resistance & Vaccine Escape
CDC Fall 2013


<div style="text-align: center;">
<hr style="width: 30%;" />29 Cases over 32 Sequences<hr style="width: 30%;" /></div>
Introduction

In the week from 2013-11-22 to 2013-11-29, the <span style="color: #783f04;"><b>United States CDC</b></span> released or updated a total of 32 <b><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">pH1N1</span></b> sequences at <strong>GISAID </strong>on 29 human cases<strong> </strong>sampled from July 2013 to November 2013. Geographic surveillance includes <b>America,</b> <b>India </b>and<b> Hong Kong. </b>

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Re: 9 Flu Deaths In Bay Area Confirmed

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CA: First Death Reported in San Francisco

CA: First Death Reported in San Francisco

San Francisco health officials report first flu-related death

A fourth flu-related death in the Bay Area was reported today out of San Francisco, according to health officials.

The death is one of nine confirmed fatal infections of the flu throughout the Bay Area this season.

The person died around the end of December after contracting the H1N1 strain, San Francisco Department of Public Health spokeswoman Colleen Chawla said.

more...

http://dfm.contracostatimes.com/art...elated-death/da1da7ab44c8b77022bcc54569cd4378
 
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CA: Young Sonoma County flu victim identified

CA: Young Sonoma County flu victim identified

Source: http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/healt...ng-sonoma-county-flu-victim-identified/ncjTh/

Posted: 10:35 a.m. Friday, Jan. 10, 2014
Young Sonoma County flu victim identified
By Alex Savidge
KTVU.com and wires

SANTA ROSA, Calif. ?

The youngest flu victim to succumb to the H1N1 virus in the Bay Area has been identified by his employer as 23-year-old Mathew Walker...
 
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