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Michigan: Flu hospitalizations at peak levels in Washtenaw County

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Source: http://www.heritage.com/articles/2014/12/16/heritagewest/news/doc548f9e323e495500218018.txt

Flu hospitalizations at peak levels in Washtenaw County
Published: Tuesday, December 16, 2014
By Ben Baird
bbaird@heritage.com
Twitter: @BenBaird1

WASHTENAW COUNTY - Washtenaw County Public Health is seeing a high number of hospitalizations so far this flu season, an amount more typical of the season's peak - which is usually around January and February.

There have been 39 total hospitalizations in the county as of Saturday, Dec. 13. Saturday marked the end of a week with 14 new hospitalizations, and the prior week had 11.

Susan Ringler-Cerniglia, public information officer for Washtenaw County Public Health, said if the number of hospitalizations was to surpass 20 in a single week, it would be the most the county has ever seen.

The majority of the hospitalizations are of patients who are at least 65 years old...
 
[h=1]9 flu-related deaths reported at Ann Arbor-area hospitals[/h] Nine people have died from flu-related illness in two Ann Arbor-area hospitals as the region deals with a strong outbreak of the infectious disease.
Older patients are being hit hardest in this year's influenza outbreak and Washtenaw County Public Health officials say it is the worst the region has seen since the H1N1 "swine flu" outbreak in 2010.
"In some ways it's an epidemic that we know is going to happen every year," Washtenaw County Public Health spokeswoman Susan Cerniglia said. "But that doesn't mean we can totally control it."

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/01/ann_arbor-area_hospitals_repor.html
 
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