N.B. boy transported to Nova Scotia with H1N1

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N.B. boy transported to Nova Scotia with H1N1

Last Updated: Monday, November 9, 2009

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A six-year-old boy from eastern New Brunswick has been transported to the IWK Health Centre in Halifax with H1N1.

The boy was hospitalized in Moncton on the weekend but his condition deteriorated and he was airlifted to Halifax where he was listed in critical but stable condition on Sunday night.

The boy's name has not been released. He is a resident of a community in Kent County.

The number of people in New Brunswick hospitals with complications from the swine flu virus continues to rise, according to the provincial government.

On Friday, Dr. Eilish Cleary, the province's chief medical officer of health, indicated that since Wednesday, 10 more people have been admitted, bringing to 38 the total hospitalizations since the start of the H1N1 pandemic.

Several of the latest cases have ended up in intensive care and are being watched closely, Cleary said.

There still have been no flu-related deaths reported in the province.
Roughly 140,000 New Brunswick citizens have been inoculated from the H1N1 virus.

Clinics are still being postponed across the province because of the shortage of vaccine, but Cleary said about 40,000 more doses are expected this week.

"We anticipate it will arrive in the province probably on the holiday Wednesday. So we expect this vaccine will be ready and able to be used by late Thursday or Friday," Cleary said.


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Re: N.B. boy transported to Nova Scotia with H1N1

Condition of boy suffering severe H1N1 symptoms upgraded

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METRO HALIFAX
November 10, 2009 12:16 a.m.

A 6-year-old boy with severe H1N1 symptoms who was transferred from a New Brunswick hospital to the IWK Health Centre was listed in fair condition yesterday.

The province?s chief public health officer, Dr. Robert Strang, confirmed the child had been admitted to hospital in Moncton over the weekend, and was later airlifted to Halifax when his condition deteriorated. The boy's name has not been released.

Strang said that as far as he knows, it?s the first time a child has been transferred from another province to IWK as a result of the H1N1 virus.

?It?s certainly the first one I?m aware of,? Strang said. ?I have pretty good collaboration with my counterparts in New Brunswick and P.E.I., and I believe they would have informed me if (other children were transferred).?

IWK spokesperson Heather Wise said it is part of the hospital?s mandate to admit children from throughout the Maritimes.

?The IWK provides highly-specialized care, and we serve Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and P.E.I., so that?s why sometimes we have patients transferred here,? she said.

She would not say if any other children are currently being treated for H1N1 at the hospital.


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