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Nueces County Man Dies Partly Due To H1N1 Virus

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CORPUS CHRISTI ? The Nueces County Medical Examiner ruled Friday that a 33-year-old man died on May 6 in part from the H1N1 flu virus.

Carlos Garnica, 33, died at a local hospital?s emergency room May 6 of viral pneumonia, according to Nueces County Medical Examiner?s Office officials.

Garnica?s death is one of five swine flu related deaths in the United States, said Dr. William Burgin, health authority of the Corpus Christi-Nueces County Public Health District.

It was not determined at that time if the man had the flu, local health district officials said. After the man died the Medical Examiner?s Office sent samples to the state lab, which confirmed on Friday that Garnica had a confirmation of the swine flu, or the H1N1 flu, health district officials said.

According to a Medical Examiner's ruling, the contributing factors in his death were hypothyroidism, hypertensive cardiomegaly, sleep apnea, morbid obesity and influenza A, sub-type H1N1.

Garnica lived in Corpus Christi, officials said.

http://www.caller.com/news/2009/may/15/h1n1-flu-contributes-nueces-co-mans-death/
 
Re: Nueces County Man Dies Partly Due To H1N1 Virus

They are getting closer to labelling deaths as due to the flu, in addition to the article cited in the previous post, check this one out:
http://www.kmtr.com/news/national/s...swine-flu-related/dkBKeTrsckmhV7LcEE8nhg.cspx

The Nueces County Medical Examiner's Office identified the man as Carlos Garnica and said the cause of death was viral pneumonia due to swine flu.

Contributing conditions included an underactive thyroid gland, abnormal enlargement of the heart due to high blood pressure, sleep apnea and morbid obesity.
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Flu actually made it into the cause of death.
 
TEXAS: fifth US H1N1 swine flu death

TEXAS: fifth US H1N1 swine flu death

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE54E63620090515


U.S. logs fifth H1N1 swine flu death, in Texas

Fri May 15, 2009 6:18pm EDT
Email | Print | Share| Reprints | Single Page[-] Text [+] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Texas man from Corpus Christi has died from the new strain of H1N1 swine flu, state health department officials said on Friday, making the fifth U.S. death from the virus.
State Health Department spokesman Doug McBride said the 33-year-old man had died earlier but the cause was only confirmed at H1N1 flu on Thursday.

On Thursday, officials reported that an Arizona woman with underlying lung disease had died from H1N1 flu. Texas reported two other deaths earlier, a 22-month old child and a pregnant woman, and Washington state has reported one.

(Reporting by Maggie Fox; editing by Todd Eastham)
 
Re: TEXAS: fifth US H1N1 swine flu death

Re: TEXAS: fifth US H1N1 swine flu death

http://www.caller.com/news/2009/may/15/h1n1-flu-contributes-nueces-co-mans-death/


H1N1 flu contributes to Nueces Co. man's death
ME: 33-year-old Corpus Christi man had other contributing factors in his death
By Staff reports

Originally published 10:02 a.m., May 15, 2009
Updated 12:00 p.m., May 15, 2009

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CORPUS CHRISTI ? Swine flu was partly to blame for the death of a 33-year-old Corpus Christi man, the fifth such death in the U.S., officials said.

Carlos Garnica died May 6 of viral pneumonia at Northwest Regional Hospital in the Calallen area, local health officials said Friday.

Hypothyroidism, hypertensive cardiomegaly, sleep apnea, morbid obesity and influenza A, sub-type H1N1 ? also known as swine flu ? were contributing factors in Garnica?s death, according to a report released Friday by the county medical examiner?s office.

Dr. William Burgin, health authority of the Corpus Christi-Nueces County Public Health District, said Garnica?s multiple health conditions likely made it difficult for him to fight off the flu.

Garnica, was 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighed 397 pounds, classifying him as morbidly obese, Dr. Ray Fernandez, chief Nueces County Medical Examiner, said Friday.

Garnica saw a physician at a Calallen clinic earlier in the day on May 6 and was treated with Tamiflu, Fernandez said, adding Garnica was taken to the hospital later that evening.

At the hospital emergency room on May 6, medical staff performed a rapid flu test on Garnica and it came back negative, Fernandez said.

But the medical examiner?s office found indications that Garnica could have had viral pneumonia, Fernandez said.

A viral lung culture from the autopsy was sent to the state lab, which confirmed Friday that Garnica had swine flu, Fernandez said.

Officials don?t know where Garnica, a single parent, contracted the flu, but said at least one of Garnica?s children recently was treated with Tamiflu. But, officials said, it?s unclear if the child had a confirmed case of swine flu.

Garnica?s mother, Eulalia, sought an attorney Friday and was directed by other attorneys to contact Austin-based law firm, Rosenthal & Watson, said lead attorney Marc Rosenthal.

Rosenthal said the firm is collecting evidence and information for a preliminary wrongful death case, alleging that a pig farm near La Gloria, Mexico, caused the deaths of individuals because of unsanitary conditions that led to swine flu.

Rosenthal plans to add Garnica?s mother as a co-plaintiff to an existing case that was filed by the firm in the 357th District Court in Cameron County, he said.

That suit was filed on behalf of Steven Trunnell, the husband of the Texas woman, who was the first American whose death was linked to swine flu. Judy Trunnell, a 33-year-old special education teacher who was about eight months pregnant, died May 5. The baby survived.
 
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