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http://www.vindy.com/news/2010/mar/09/flu-bug-spares-ohio-deep-bite/
Published: Tue, March 9, 2010 @ 12:01 a.m.
By WILLIAM K. ALCORN
alcorn@vindy.com
YOUNGSTOWN
INFLUENZA
Ohio typically records about 3,000 deaths from influenza and its most serious complication pneumonia. So far this flu season, Sept. 1, 2009-March 5, 2010, with three to four weeks left in the traditional flu season, there have been 2,600 flu-related deaths. Here are H1N1-related deaths (only pediatric deaths are required to be reported, although some public health departments choose to report adult deaths).
Mahoning: 3
Columbiana: 1
Trumbull: 0
Ohio total: 51
Here are the pneumonia/influenza deaths for this flu season compiled from death certificates:
Mahoning: 64
Columbiana: 45
Trumbull: 70
Ohio total: 2,600
Source: Ohio Department of Health
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These statistics, however, do not reflect the H1N1 deaths that occurred between last spring, when the H1N1 flu appeared, and Sept. 1.
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Only pediatric-flu deaths are required to be reported, although some public health departments choose to report adult H1N1 deaths, House said.
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?March is typically the height of the flu season and when we expected the third wave of the H1N1 pandemic. We haven?t seen it,? ....
Published: Tue, March 9, 2010 @ 12:01 a.m.
By WILLIAM K. ALCORN
alcorn@vindy.com
YOUNGSTOWN
INFLUENZA
Ohio typically records about 3,000 deaths from influenza and its most serious complication pneumonia. So far this flu season, Sept. 1, 2009-March 5, 2010, with three to four weeks left in the traditional flu season, there have been 2,600 flu-related deaths. Here are H1N1-related deaths (only pediatric deaths are required to be reported, although some public health departments choose to report adult deaths).
Mahoning: 3
Columbiana: 1
Trumbull: 0
Ohio total: 51
Here are the pneumonia/influenza deaths for this flu season compiled from death certificates:
Mahoning: 64
Columbiana: 45
Trumbull: 70
Ohio total: 2,600
Source: Ohio Department of Health
snip..
These statistics, however, do not reflect the H1N1 deaths that occurred between last spring, when the H1N1 flu appeared, and Sept. 1.
...
Only pediatric-flu deaths are required to be reported, although some public health departments choose to report adult H1N1 deaths, House said.
...
?March is typically the height of the flu season and when we expected the third wave of the H1N1 pandemic. We haven?t seen it,? ....