New Details on Initial Texas Cases

[pflu]

I found some compelling details on the initial San Antonio Texas outbreak and the military link. The two 16 year old Steele High kids who were Ill April 10th, and April 14th were Military Dependents from Randolf Air Force Base in San Antonia.

The first case, the 10 year old in San Diego boy from April 1st was also a Military Dependent (Likely MCRD San Diego).

I updated these cases in the Early Outbreak Map...

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U....164126,-96.437988&spn=7.813009,10.524902&z=7



I also found that there was a substantial Febrile Respiratory Illness and uptick in ILI at Lackland Air Force Base (about 20 miles from Randolf) starting in mid march. See the map pin for complete details.

Finally, I found a new suspect case in a College Station Texas, 11 year old girl who died in late January. It was labeled a mysterious illness, however the media reports that she had flu like symptoms two days before death and that her lungs were filled with fluid.

http://www.kbtx.com/news/headlines/38458309.html


A host of other Texas incidents pointing to possible early clusters of H1N1 from the beginning of this year forward are plotted on the map in the link above.


Article Citing Kids Randolf AFB Connection
http://www.sg.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123146716

 

[Dark Horse]

Re: New Details on Initial Texas Cases

Most interesting. Thank you for digging.

 

[pflu]

Re: New Details on Initial Texas Cases

I've updated and found a few more incident's in Texas, as well as others from around the country. They are all mapped, but here is the latest Texas focus...

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...1.090574,-95.95459&spn=7.260007,10.480957&z=7


Also some California details...

The first two cases reported were in California. Case #2 was a 9 year old Imperial County resident who was detected through the Border Surveillance Program.

The first thing I pictured when I heard Border Surveillance was some clinic sitting on the border looking for illness as people enter the US. What I found out is quite different.

The clinic where this girl was tested is 20+ miles north of the Border in downtown Brawley and part of a dozen privately owned out patient clinics between San Diego and Imperial counties which make up the Border Surveillance Program. These clinics work in partnership with the CDC and Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) in San Diego. Basically they forward there swabs to NHRC to be subtyped, hence the "Border Surveillance"


Sources...

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/447916
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/04/behind-the-scen.html
http://www.cdsdp.org/clinicsites.html
http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/Su...oD-AFHSC_Swine_Influenza_Summary-27_April.pdf
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2009/may/07/border-disease-program-helped-sound-alarm-swine-fl/

 

[the doctor]

Re: New Details on Initial Texas Cases

pflu,

I recall that there were a couple of young adult males who died in southern CA in early April before the novel strain was detected by the CDC in CA and TX.

Do you have any information about these two deaths?

GW

 

[pflu]

Re: New Details on Initial Texas Cases

Yes, both of these were later debunked by the coroner, here is the original article and results...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...ssibly-related-to-swine-flu-coroner-says.html

http://stoph1n1.com/prevent-h1n1-in...n-confirmed-us-cases-rises-dramatically.html/


The Naval Health Research Center found the first case on April 1st. The CDC didn't tell anyone about it until April 21st. They also knew for several weeks before the 21st about the mysterious pneumonia outbreak in Mexico.

I believe most of the initial cases in California were from the navy base in San Diego. Check the purple pins on the map...

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U....765449,-117.020874&spn=3.525089,5.240479&z=8