• FluTrackers.com Inc. does not provide medical advice. Information on this web site is collected from various internet resources, and the FluTrackers board of directors makes no warranty to the safety, efficacy, correctness or completeness of the information posted on this site by any author or poster. The information collated here is for instructional and/or discussion purposes only and is NOT intended to diagnose or treat any disease, illness, or other medical condition. Every individual reader or poster should seek advice from their personal physician/healthcare practitioner before considering or using any interventions that are discussed on this website. By continuing to access this website you agree to consult your personal physican before using any interventions posted on this website, and you agree to hold harmless FluTrackers.com Inc., the board of directors, the members, and all authors and posters for any effects from use of any medication, supplement, vitamin or other substance, device, intervention, etc. mentioned in posts on this website, or other internet venues referenced in posts on this website.
  • We are not asking for any donations. Do not donate to any entity who says they are raising funds for us.

California: Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Other areas

CA: Flu a factor in woman's death in Santa Barbara County

CA: Flu a factor in woman's death in Santa Barbara County

Source: http://www.ksby.com/news/flu-a-factor-in-woman-s-death-in-santa-barbara-county/

35 minutes 45 seconds ago by KSBY Staff
Flu a factor in woman's death in Santa Barbara County

Flu is one of the causes that led to the death of a woman in her 20s in Santa Barbara County recently, according to public health officials there.

They say the woman died within the last few days, but no other information about the woman or her illness has been released...
 
Influenza Death in Santa Barbara County

Influenza Death in Santa Barbara County

A female resident of Santa Barbara County in her 20's died due to complications related to influenza during the week ending January 11, 2014. This patient did not receive influenza vaccine this season. This is the first influenza death reported in the County this season. It is a highly contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that everyone 6 months of age and older should be immunized.


http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=127529
 
Re: California: Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Other areas

Source: http://www.mtshastanews.com/article/20140114/NEWS/140119879


Four flu deaths reported in Siskiyou County, shots urged
Four influenza-related deaths have been reported in Siskiyou County, and health professionals are continuing to urge anyone over six months of age to protect themselves with the flu vaccine.
By Skye Kinkade
Posted Jan. 14, 2014 @ 1:42 pm

Four influenza-related deaths have been reported in Siskiyou County, and health professionals are continuing to urge anyone over six months of age to protect themselves with the flu vaccine.

“We haven’t seen an illness like this in a very long time,” said Sharon Piva, who is in charge of infection control at Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta...

... The Siskiyou County Health and Services Agency reports that two men, ages 55 and 65, died this week after being hospitalized for influenza-related viruses.

On Friday, a 38 year old man died and the week before a 60 year old male died, Perlman said...
 
Re: California: Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Other areas

Source: http://www.northcoastjournal.com/Blogthing/archives/2014/01/15/h1n1-claims-local-man

H1N1 Claims Local Man
Posted by Thadeus Greenson on Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:51 PM

A local man died in a Humboldt County hospital from H1N1 influenza related complications, the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services confirmed today.

The man ? who has not been identified but officials say was in his 60s ? died Monday and also had underlying health conditions, according to a county press release...
 
Re: California: Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Other areas

Source: http://www.hanfordsentinel.com/news...cle_e4fdf35e-7e12-11e3-9b29-001a4bcf887a.html


Third Kings County resident dies from swine flu
5 hours ago

Tom Buford, pharmacy manager at Walgreens in Lemoore, fills a syringe during a recent flu shot clinic. (Gary Feinstein/The Sentinel)
Enlarge Photo

HANFORD ? Kings County health officials are reporting that a third local resident has died from swine flu.

The latest victim, who died over the weekend, was a previously healthy middle-aged woman. The previous two fatalities, which occurred last week, were a healthy middle-age man and a middle-aged man with a previous condition that made him more susceptible...
 
Re: California: Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Other areas

Monterey County reports two flu-related deaths

Influenza infections this season have been associated with two deaths and six hospitalizations requiring intensive care, according to Monterey County health officials. Two of the six hospitalized patients were children.

Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System also reports seeing 55 patients with flu symptoms since mid-November 2013, including eight that required overnight hospitalization and three needing intensive care.

...

http://www.thecalifornian.com/artic...reports-two-flu-related-deaths?nclick_check=1
 
Re: California: Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Other areas

2014 flu kills first victim in Humboldt County

Health officials on Wednesday reported Humboldt County's first death of the 2014 flu season.

The victim -- who was in his 60s and had underlying health conditions -- died in a county hospital on Monday and was confirmed to have contracted the influenza A, H1N1 strain.

Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services nurse Eric Gordon said this strain of H1N1 mostly affects people in their ?teens to 40s,? though others can contract it as well.

http://www.times-standard.com/local...ills-first-victim-humboldt-county-health.html
 
Re: California: Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Other areas

pH1N1
Data Sparsity
Egg Passage
Winter 2013
​

2014-01-18-21:30
At the WeekEnd, Atlanta

A December Void

During the minimal pH1N1 case count in the Northern Hemisphere's 2012 season and post-season, the US CDC demonstrated the experimental importance of Egg Passage strategies. Variant polymorphisms known to drive deep lung involvement in humans were surfaced repeatedly from quasi-species. That egg-based experimentation was considered valuable and was pursued throughout much of 2013, but evidently not to quantify the actual circulating pH1N1 viral population . . . because the production came to a full halt at the moment that the US flu season's high fatality rates became public due to an unexpected re-emergence of pH1N1 . . .

Read the Open-Access, Full-Text
Synoptic
​
 
Re: California: Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Other areas

Contra Costa County sees three new flu-related fatalities

Health officials have linked three more Contra Costa County deaths to influenza, more than doubling the total of local flu-related fatalities this season.

The new cases consisted of a man in his 30s, a man in his 50s and a woman in her 60s, according to Kate Fowlie of the Contra Costa County Heath Services. No other information was released about the deaths.

The county has now seen five flu-related deaths in people younger than 65 since December, Fowlie said. The Bay Area flu season is expected to last through March.

...more

http://www.sanramonexpress.com/news...-county-sees-three-new-flu-related-fatalities
 
Re: California: Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Other areas

First flu death reported in Ventura County

A Ventura County resident died of flu in the area?s first flu death of the season, public health officials said Friday afternoon.

The victim was between the ages of 40 and 65 and had underlying health conditions that may have increased the susceptibility to flu complications, said Dr. Robert Levin, Ventura County public health officer...

Read more: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2014/jan/24/state-flu-deaths-continue-to-rise/#ixzz2rMfnn5LJ
- vcstar.com
 
Re: California: Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Other areas

News story.
<table align="center" border="0px" cellpadding="2px" cellspacing="0px" style="background-color: #ffe9c4; border-color: darkred; border-radius: 4px; border-style: ridge; border-width: 12px; box-shadow: 0 5px 15px rgba(0,0,0,0.8); padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 2px; width: 77%;">
<tbody>
<tr style="float: center;"><td style="font-size: 140%; font-weight: bold;">Flu deaths on the rise in Orange County, state
</td></tr>
<tr style="float: center;"><td style="font-size: 90%;">During the 2012-13 flu season, six Orange County residents died. Eight Orange County adults have died of the flu so far this season . . .
</td></tr>
<tr style="float: center; font-size: 100%;"><td></td></tr>
<tr style="float: center; font-size: 60%;"><td>BY COURTNEY PERKES / STAFF WRITER</td></tr>
<tr style="float: center; font-size: 60%;"><td><a href="http://www.ocregister.com/" target="_blank">Orange County Register</a>
Published: Jan. 24, 2014 Updated: 6:47 p.m.</td></tr>
<tr style="float: center; font-size: 100%;"><td></td></tr>
<tr style="float: center; font-size: 100%;"><td></td></tr>
<tr style="float: center;">
<td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle; width: 75%;"><div style="background-color: navajowhite; border-bottom-left-radius: 20px; border-bottom-right-radius: 20px; border-top-left-radius: 20px; border-top-right-radius: 20px; border: 2px solid maroon; color: black; line-height: 18px; padding: 10px; text-align: center; width: 70%;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 100%;">'Dr. Gil Chavez
Department of Public Health
State Epidemiologist:

The state Department of Public Health said at least 95 Californians have died so far this season, compared to 106 deaths all of last season. Another 51 deaths are likely to be lab-confirmed next week.

"Last week 50 new laboratory-confirmed influenza deaths were reported. By this time last year, we had received reports of a total of nine influenza fatalities."'

</span></div>
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="float: center; font-size: 100%;"><td></td></tr>
<tr style="float: center; font-size: 100%;"><td></td></tr>
</tbody></table>

Fatalities Double
Week-over-Week
California​

With fatalities doubling last week and while expecting to confirm another 51 fatalities this week, the State of California follows a trend seen in other American geographies. Reporting in California appears to be going very well even in the face of the crisis and the health officials are disclosing the information as numbers are available.

We applaud their diligence.
 
Re: California: Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Other areas

H1N1 Hits Home in Turlock

306600c868fe6b67afe34e9f7a9f98b7_L.jpg



Reha Tosta, 31, a single mother of two children, ages 3 and 4, is currently battling H1N1. She was placed on a ventilator and was sedated, however she is responding to verbal stimulus.


http://www.turlockcitynews.com/news/item/1645-h1n1-hits-home-in-turlock
 
Re: California: Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Other areas

San Luis Obispo inmate, 35, with H1N1 flu dies

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. ? Authorities say a San Luis Obispo County jail inmate who had contracted the H1N1 flu virus has died.

The Sheriff?s Department said in a statement Monday that Rudy Joseph Silva, a 35-year-old transient with a history of medical problems who had been in the jail since October, complained of illness on Thursday and was taken to Sierra Vista Medical Center where he was diagnosed with H1N1 and sent to intensive care. He died Monday. The exact cause of death will be determined by coroner?s investigators.

The statement says jail staff and inmates had been getting flu screenings and shots even before the incident.

Silva had been held since Oct. 22 on a felony charge of receiving stolen property along with probation violation, petty theft and possession of a controlled substance.

http://www.dailynews.com/health/20140127/san-luis-obispo-inmate-35-with-h1n1-flu-dies
 
Re: California: Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Other areas

Note: This article reports 7 deaths in Riverside County

REGION: Influenza visits plague local hospitals

snip

Riverside County Regional Medical Center in Moreno Valley instituted a new policy this year for its 2,500 employees: Those who don?t get a flu shot must wear a mask, Dr. Ramiz Fargo said.

The pulmonologist said he was struck by the severity of this season?s cases, many of which have turned into pneumonia. In one 24-hour period this week, the hospital reported a spike of 10 flu-related admissions.

In Riverside County from Jan. 1 to Jan. 28, 44 severe cases of influenza have been reported, seven of them fatal, said Barbara Cole, disease control director...

http://www.pe.com/local-news/local-...n-influenza-visits-plague-local-hospitals.ece
 
Re: California: Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Other areas

Stanislaus County sees high rate of flu deaths

The influenza virus that has been spreading across California continues to claim more lives, with Stanislaus County recording an alarmingly high rate of fatalities compared to other larger counties.

snip

Stanislaus County has the fourth highest fatality rate in the state for this season of influenza, surpassing larger counties like San Francisco, Fresno, and San Diego.

The CDPH recorded Stanislaus County?s total fatalities at 11, though one more death was confirmed as being influenza-related just recently, bringing the county?s total to 12, said Kinisha Campbell, a manager with the Stanislaus County Health Services Agency...

http://www.turlockjournal.com/section/12/article/24022/
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top