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California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area

CA: First Flu Death Reported In Riverside County

CA: First Flu Death Reported In Riverside County

Source: http://lakeelsinore-wildomar.patch..../first-flu-death-reported-in-riverside-county


First Flu Death Reported In Riverside County

the 30-year-old Coachella Valley man tested positive for the H1N1 strain and died this week after being briefly hospitalized, according to Dr. Cameron Kaiser, Riverside County public health officer.
Posted by Toni McAllister (Editor) , January 09, 2014 at 12:08 PM

...Officials are investigating whether the patient had other underlying health issues that may had contributed to his death.

Officials have not confirmed whether the patient had received a flu vaccine, which can be effective against the H1N1 strain...
 
CA: LA County Reports 6 Deaths Through Week 1

CA: LA County Reports 6 Deaths Through Week 1

This is from LA County's Influenza Watch publication for Week 1.

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Re: CA: LA County Reports 6 Deaths Through Week 1

Re: CA: LA County Reports 6 Deaths Through Week 1

pH1N1 Child Vaccine Escape
CDC Early 2013


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<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.

. . .

Read the Open-Access, Full-Text
Investigational Analytic
including Genetic Details​
 
Re: CA: LA County Reports 6 Deaths Through Week 1

Re: CA: LA County Reports 6 Deaths Through Week 1

pH1N1 Drug Resistance & Vaccine Escape
CDC Fall 2013


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<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>

. . .

Read the Open-Access, Full-Text
Investigational Analytic
including Genetic Details​
 
Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Source: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?n=Gladys-Rubinstein&pid=169380066

Gladys Rubinstein

Gladys Rubinstein passed away

on January 25, 2014, at age 92, within one week of her 93rd birthday, at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, CA. Burdened with numerous physical problems, surrounded by family, she finally succumbed to a combination of pneumonia and influenza...
 
Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

First localflu death reported

Dr. Robert Levin, Ventura County Public Health officer, announced recently that Ventura County?s first flu-related death has occurred. A resident under 65 died after having been hospitalized with complications related to the H1N1 virus. The victim had other underlying conditions which may have put him at risk for severe H1N1 illness.

?Flu, including the H1N1 strain, is on the rise throughout the state and, over the past week, influenza-related deaths have increased by 50 in California,? Levin said.

So far this season, the California Department of Public Health has confirmed 95 flurelated deaths statewide.

http://www.theacorn.com/news/2014-01-30/Health_(and)_Wellness/First_localflu_death_reported.html
 
Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Flu-related deaths spike in San Bernardino County

The number of flu-related deaths in San Bernardino County has spiked suddenly to 16, a 700 percent increase since Jan. 10, when there were two.

The deaths are scattered around the county with no specific regional trend, county public health officials said in a statement Friday.

snip

In Los Angeles County, there have been 33 flu-related deaths this season.

?In recent weeks Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center is averaging four pregnant patients per day requiring admissions due to the flu and the pediatric unit has had a number of newborns with the flu virus,? said Frank Garcia, spokesman for the Pomona hospital...

http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20140131/flu-related-deaths-spike-in-san-bernardino-county
 
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Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Flu-related deaths spike in San Bernardino County

The number of flu-related deaths in San Bernardino County has spiked suddenly to 16, a 700 percent increase since Jan. 10, when there were two.

The deaths are scattered around the county with no specific regional trend, county public health officials said in a statement Friday.

snip

In Los Angeles County, there have been 33 flu-related deaths this season.

?In recent weeks Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center is averaging four pregnant patients per day requiring admissions due to the flu and the pediatric unit has had a number of newborns with the flu virus,? said Frank Garcia, spokesman for the Pomona hospital...

http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20140131/flu-related-deaths-spike-in-san-bernardino-county

Two Week
Pomona Valley Hospital Admission Count
Mothers-To-Be


56

If we examine the numbers that Mr. Garcia of Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center has produced ("4 per day") and multiply for only the past two weeks ("recent weeks"), we arrive at the astounding Hospital Admission Count for Influenza infection of 56 Pregnant young women . . . at one hospital.

Now that is one clinical unit with exceptional experience managing severe influenza in gravid cases. Careful, anonymised case notes from their wards could drive practice methods in parts of the country that may have yet to receive the spiking genetics.

We would like to see comparatives on pregnant admissions during the various California spikes in 2009 and 2010.

Who imagines when they first hear their baby's heartbeat that an unnecessary infection from a known pathogen could force them into a medically induced coma and a pre-term surgical delivery. We can't think that any mother wants to bring her child into the world like that.

But in Pomona, not unlike many other US neighborhoods, 56 Mothers-To-Be ran that risk in just the past two weeks, without the necessary information to properly guide their decision-making.
 
Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

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<tr style="float: center;"><td style="font-size: 90%;">The number of flu-related deaths in San Bernardino County has spiked suddenly to 16, a 700 percent increase since Jan. 10, when there were two.
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<tr style="float: center; font-size: 60%;"><td>By Jim Steinberg</td></tr>
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POSTED: 01/31/14, 7:17 PM PST</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 100%;">'Thirteen of the 16 deaths are confirmed to be the H1N1 strain, which caused the 2009-2010 pandemic that killed more than 200,000 worldwide, including 45 in San Bernardino County.

Last year, there were five flu-related deaths in San Bernardino County.'

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Year Over Year
Fatality Count
San Bernardino County


320%


San Bernardino County had 5 ILI deaths in s2012 and has 16 already this season (s2013). At 320% of last year's total, most of this year's deaths appear to have come in the second half of January.
 
Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

News story.
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POSTED: 01/31/14, 7:17 PM PST</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 100%;">'The California Department of Public Health reported Friday there have been 147 confirmed flu-related deaths statewide and an additional 44 deaths are under investigation.

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California Department of Public Health
  • s2012 Fatality Count 106
  • s2013 Fatality Count 191 *



* Projection from confirmed and expected to be confirmed (147 + 44 for 191 Total Projection).
 
Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Ventura County has first flu-related death


Dr. Robert Levin, Ventura County Public Health officer, announced recently that Ventura County?s first flu-related death has occurred. A resident under 65 died after having been hospitalized with complications related to the H1N1 virus. The victim had other underlying conditions which may have put him at risk for severe H1N1 illness.

? Flu, including the H1N1 strain, is on the rise throughout the state and, over the past week, influenza-related deaths have increased by 50 in California,? Levin said.

So far this season, the California Department of Public Health has confirmed 95 flu-related deaths statewide.


http://www.mpacorn.com/news/2014-02...entura_County_has_first_flurelated_death.html
 
Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Three people died of flu in Ventura County

Three people died of the flu in Ventura County this season, a public health official said Friday.

One death was previously reported and involved a person between the ages of 40 and 65 with underlying health conditions.

The other two victims lived outside Ventura County but died here, said Public Health Officer Dr. Robert Levin. One was between the ages of 20 and 30 and the other was between 50 and 65...

Read more: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2014/feb/07/flu-deaths-keep-rising-across-california/#ixzz2sgVGMeGf
- vcstar.com
 
Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area

South Bay mother, unborn child die of flu

A pregnant South Bay woman and her unborn baby have become the latest casualties of this year?s influenza season.

Los Angeles County public health officials confirmed Thursday that influenza A (H1N1) was associated with the death that occurred in an area hospital.

No information has been disclosed about where the woman lived, how far along she was in her pregnancy, whether she?d had a flu shot or what hospital she had been in when she died. County public health officials said it also is unknown whether there were contributing complications.


http://www.dailynews.com/health/20140220/south-bay-mother-unborn-child-die-of-flu
 
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