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Editor, Senior Moderator
Don?t visit your elderly grandmother if you are ill with the flu, warns Dr. Dee Hoyano, Island Health medical health officer.
In the last week, the health authority has seen a spike in influenza cases in Vancouver Island hospitals. Eight cases of influenza have been confirmed and seven patients have been so sick they required treatment in hospital. Two of the cases were so severe that the patients ? an adult and a child ? were admitted to the intensive care unit.
?December is certainly well within our influenza season. It varies from year to year. And just the fact that we?ve had a spike in cases in the hospitals could be a sign we?re having an earlier season than last year,? Hoyano said.
The good news is that most of the cases confirmed by Island Health laboratories are H1N1 and are a good match to the strain of Influenza A included in this year?s vaccine.
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In the last week, the health authority has seen a spike in influenza cases in Vancouver Island hospitals. Eight cases of influenza have been confirmed and seven patients have been so sick they required treatment in hospital. Two of the cases were so severe that the patients ? an adult and a child ? were admitted to the intensive care unit.
?December is certainly well within our influenza season. It varies from year to year. And just the fact that we?ve had a spike in cases in the hospitals could be a sign we?re having an earlier season than last year,? Hoyano said.
The good news is that most of the cases confirmed by Island Health laboratories are H1N1 and are a good match to the strain of Influenza A included in this year?s vaccine.
- See more at: http://www.timescolonist.com/sports...ancouver-island-1.759143#sthash.Bu8Z5snK.dpuf