Tennessee - Family says H1N1 took life of young pastor

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Family says H1N1 took life of young pastor

Posted: Dec 26, 2013 7:54 PM CST Updated: Dec 26, 2013 7:58 PM CST
Reported by Hayley Mason - email

LAFAYETTE, TN (WSMV) -

Jonathan Martin was a pastor, a brother, a husband and father to two young daughters.

The 36-year-old started to feel sick with a cough and fever around Dec. 1.

"With me being a physician assistant, I said, I think you have the flu. And I said, let me take you to the doctor, and he didn't want go," said Martin's wife, Andrea Martin.

By the end of the week, Martin's wife says he was begging her to take him to the emergency room.

While generally older and younger people are more susceptible, doctors say the flu this year can be just as serious in young, healthy adults like Martin.

"What folks constantly forget, I'm afraid, is that influenza can take a perfectly normal person, a child or an adult, and strike them and put them in the hospital within 48 hours," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.


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Martin did not get better. He died on December 22, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Martin's parents say their son developed acute respiratory distress syndrome, something related to many H1N1 flu cases. Johnathan's father, Johnny Martin explained, " They came back and said yeah that's what it is swine flu...H1N1 it's a terrible thing to see."

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pH1N1 Child Vaccine Escape
CDC Early 2013
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Map - Active and Detailed
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<hr style="width: 30%;" />41 Cases over 43 Sequences<hr style="width: 30%;" /></div>
Introduction

In the 30 days covering 2013-02-28 to 2013-03-29, the <span style="color: #783f04;"><b>United States CDC</b></span> released a total of 43 <b><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">pH1N1</span></b> sequences at <strong>GISAID </strong>on 41 human cases<strong> </strong>sampled from October 2012 to February 2013. Geographic surveillance includes <b>America,</b> <b>Africa, Asia </b>and<b> Russia. </b>Although <b><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">pH1N1</span></b> in most locales during the 2012-2013 season was the <b><span style="color: #783f04;">minority</span></b> serotype, the sequences in this Analytic Report describe a high level of human-infective diversity and an ease of avian genetic acquisition, including multiple instances demonstrating concentrated transport of <b><span style="color: #660000;">High-CFR</span></b> <b><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">pH1N1 </span><span style="color: #783f04;">Upsilon</span></b> polymorphisms onto single sequences.

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pH1N1 Genetic Sequence
Sparsity
for
Tennessee​

Only two genetic sequences are on file from Tennessee during 2013 with none after March. Those distant sequences suggest a circulation pattern similar to Texas and New Mexico.

 

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pH1N1 Genetic Sequence
Sparsity
for
Tennessee​

Only two genetic sequences are on file from Tennessee during 2013 with none after March. Those distant sequences suggest a circulation pattern similar to Texas and New Mexico.

pH1N1 TamiFlu Resistance
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The most recent Tennessee sequence, sampled from a 53 year old woman in March 2013, is Drug Resistant (TmX275 onto a very common Neuraminidase) and displays CrossClade tendencies with Emergent H7N9 homology on the Hemagglutinin.

The Neuraminidase lineage is common; The CrossClade Hemagglutinin lineage was widespread to geographies supporting avian inclusions, e.g. Brazil [EPI484739] and Costa Rica [EPI484980].