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Swine Flu Case Suspected In Orlando/Disney World

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Swine Flu Case Confirmed In Orlando
Posted: 10:41 am EDT April 28, 2009
Updated: 11:04 am EDT April 28, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Eyewitness News has learned of Orlando's first confirmed case of swine flu. According to the chief medical officer for Adventist Health System, Loran Hauck, the case was diagnosed Tuesday morning.
"A case was diagnosed here in Orlando today on a tourist from Mexico who came to Disney attractions two days ago to visit," Hauck wrote in an email obtained by Eyewitness News.
No further details have been released, but Eyewitness News is working to learn specifically what days the tourist was at the parks and which park the tourist went to.
Details about the tourist, beyond being from Mexico, have not been released.
Copyright 2009 by wftv.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
 
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Re: Swine Flu Case Confirmed In Orlando/Disney World

The hospital representative, Dr. Brady, in a news conference, is denying that there is a confirmed swine flu case. This hospital is part of a sentinel system in the area to look for flu cases. They routinely send samples to the CDC for typing.

He calls the email "a mis-statement".

He says that the CDC will confirm in 48 hours.


Who knows.....?


I will change the title to suspected, but we are monitoring the situation. Frankly, I assume the swine flu will be in Florida soon if it is confirmed in Texas. It is only a matter of time.

I also think that reliance on the news services that are using automatic feeds on twitter is a mistake. These are deseminated widely without human verification of any source. I assume that no one at BNO or Veratect watched the Orlando news conference for verification. It will be interesting to see if BNO changes their twitter from "Confirmed" to "Suspected".
 
Re: Swine Flu Case Suspected In Orlando/Disney World

Same link as original 'confirmed case' above. They have updated the story.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19311020/detail.html


Florida Hospital Denies Swine Flu Case Has Been Confirmed
Posted: 10:41 am EDT April 28, 2009
Updated: 1:31 pm EDT April 28, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Eyewitness News has learned of Orlando's first confirmed case of swine flu, however Florida Hospital is denying the claim, which was made by one of their own officers in an email. According to the chief medical officer for Adventist Health System, which operates Florida Hospital, the case was diagnosed Tuesday morning.


"A case was diagnosed here in Orlando today on a tourist from Mexico who came to Disney attractions two days ago to visit," CMO Loran Hauck wrote in an email obtained by Eyewitness News (see email- follow link above to access link to e-mail).

But during an early Tuesday afternoon press conference called by Florida Hospital in regard to Eyewitness News' report, the hospital denies any confirmed cases exist.

"We understand that sometime in the past 24 hours there was an email sent from a Florida Hospital person to another person trying to educate them about how not to get the flu," Dr. Scott Brady of Florida Hospital said during the press conference (watch press conference). "There have been some reports indicating that there was in fact a case of the flu somewhere in the Disney area, but that has not been confirmed at this time."

WFTV reporter Kathi Belich then asked Brady specifically about the email reporting at least one confirmed swine flu case.

"There have been no confirmed cases of swine flu by the CDC in Central Florida," Brady responded.


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Re: Swine Flu Case Suspected In Orlando/Disney World

The original report, updated through 7:14pm EDT. Note it has a quote that NO sample has been sent to CDC. The samples go to State lab first, then if positive goes to the CDC.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19311020/detail.html

Dr. Brady told Eyewitness News a Mexican tourist who had been to Disney came into one of the clinics Sunday night with the flu. On Monday, they swabbed the tourist and said they sent the culture to the CDC. Florida Hospital says it sent two more cultures from Orlando to the CDC on Tuesday, but the the Florida Department of Health denies having sent any samples to the CDC. [/U]
Orange County Health Officer Dr. Kevin Sherin won't say exactly how many possible cases there are in the county. He's been asked by the health department not to do that, but says if there is a confirmed case he will get that information out right away.
Shortly after the hospital's press conference, the Florida's Health Department held their own (watch press conference).
"At this time we have no confirmed cases here in Florida," Florida Surgeon General Ana M. Viamonte Ros said during theTuesday afternoon press conference.
Viamonte Ros said several samples are being sent to state labs where, if they get a positive test, they are then forwarded to the CDC for confirmation.
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Re: Swine Flu Case Suspected In Orlando/Disney World

Umm

The article seems to forget to mention that the doctor and or hospital COULD NOT verify a case if they wanted to. Perhaps some doctor mouthed off about some flu that he thought was H1N1. But, he couldn't verify it if he wanted to. They don't have the tools for that.

So, the real story is that a doctor went off on his own and started mouthing/talking. He had no business doing that. IF a doctor actually wrote that email then he had no business doing that. That is the mistake.

Not the cover-up.
 
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