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Memorial confirms H1N1 death
Posted: Monday, January 13, 2014 12:00 pm | Updated: 12:02 pm, Mon Jan 13, 2014.
STEVE KNIGHT/The Lufkin News
A 49-year old man died of the H1N1 flu virus last week at Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin, a hospital official told The Lufkin News Monday.
Stacy Garcia, the hospital?s chief nursing officer, said the man, whose name was not disclosed, was otherwise healthy and had no underlying medical conditions...
On Monday, the death of a patient older than 65 was confirmed. The department would reveal no further information including either the patient's gender or date of death.
Also, health officials would not reveal the strain the patient had or if they had received a flu shot.
At this time, there have been 26 confirmed flu-related deaths in Dallas County, three in Denton County and one possible flu-related death each in Wise County and Tarrant County.
In the 32 days covering 2013-10-17 to 2013-11-19, the <span style="color: #783f04;"><b>United States CDC</b></span> released a total of 49 <b><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">pH1N1</span></b> sequences at <strong>GISAID </strong>on 46 human cases<strong> </strong>sampled from February 2013 to October 2013. Geographic surveillance includes <b>America,</b> <b>Africa, Asia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay </b>and<b> Peru. </b>
The sequences in this Analytic Report describe a high level of genetic activity at the <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Hemagglutinin</span></b> <b><span style="color: #660000;">antigenic area</span></b> between <b><span style="color: blue;">aa155</span></b> and <b><span style="color: blue;">aa158</span></b> with <b>5</b> amino variations and <b>4</b> silent revisions. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">HA</span></b> <b><span style="color: blue;">225G</span></b> is present in <b><span style="color: #660000;">quasi-species</span></b> on <b>2</b> American samples and as dominant form in <b>2</b> tropical countries. The <b>Dominican Republic</b> <b><span style="color: #274e13;">HA</span></b> <b><span style="color: blue;">225G</span></b> <b><span style="color: #660000;">Low Reactor</span></b> appears on a <b><span style="color: #7f6000;">TamiFlu Resistant</span></b> strain. <b><span style="color: #7f6000;">Drug Resistance</span></b> is also found in <b>2</b> US sequences and <b>1</b> South American case.
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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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Re: Texas - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 (other than Dallas or Houston areas)
Travis County up to 8 flu deaths
Eight Travis County residents have died of flu this season, one shy of the nine who died of the H1N1 virus during the 2009 ?swine flu? pandemic, the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department said.
H1N1 is the dominant strain circulating this season, and because of concerns about high rates of illness, the health department is doing enhanced tracking of cases. The law requires only the reporting of children who die of flu.
Two of the eight patients died this month; the other six succumbed in December, health department spokeswoman Carole Barasch said. Dozens more are hospitalized in intensive-care units with flu. Last week, the health department reported that it had counted 57 ICU patients with influenza-like illness at six Travis County hospitals.
Re: Texas - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 (other than Dallas or Houston areas)
Hunt County records first flu-related death
GREENVILLE ? The flu outbreak that has resulted in an abnormally high number of hospitalizations and approximately 30 deaths in North Texas has claimed its first Hunt County victim.
Hunt Regional Medical Center at Greenville has confirmed that an elderly female patient who did not receive the influenza vaccine succumbed to Type B influenza last week. She was considered a high risk patient.
Pam Andrews, RN, medical manager for the Hunt County Health Department located in Greenville, said that she is aware of only one flu-related death of a person over 65 in Hunt County during the current flu season.
Re: Texas - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 (other than Dallas or Houston areas)
Flu-related deaths in El Paso rises to 4
EL PASO, Texas - The El Paso Health Department told KFOX14 its reporting three more flu-related deaths for the season.
Health department officials Armando Saldivar confirmed the additional deaths to KFOX14 Wednesday morning.
The number of flu-related deaths has risen to four so far this season.
The three latest are a middle-aged man and woman, both of whom had underlying medical conditions. The third was a young adult male with no known underlying medical conditions, confirmed Salvidar.
Re: Texas - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 (other than Dallas or Houston areas)
Second Swine Flu Death in Nueces County this Week
CORPUS CHRISTI (Kiii News) - The City-County Health Department confirmed yet another death from H1N1 flu in Nueces County Tuesday, making it the second swine flu death this week.
Family members identified the woman as 80-year old Christina Trejo. They said she passed away Monday night from the swine flu.
Trejo had been in the hospital since just after Christmas. Family members said it started with a cough, and then she ended up being diagnosed with pneumonia and then H1N1.
Re: Texas - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 (other than Dallas or Houston areas)
Child dies of flu in Travis County
The first child in Travis County has died of flu this season, bringing to nine the number of flu-related deaths in the county, the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department said today.
That is the same number of Travis County residents who died during the H1N1 ?swine flu? pandemic. H1N1, an A strain of flu, is the main influenza virus circulating this season and is responsible for numerous hospitalizations.
The health department said the child tested positive for the rapid A influenza test. No further testing was done to determine whether the strain was H1N1. Officials said the child had some underlying health conditions as did many of the eight adults who have died.
Re: Texas - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 (other than Dallas or Houston areas)
Three More Flu Deaths Reported In Central Texas
(January 16, 2014) The total number of flu deaths in Central Texas rose to six Thursday with the confirmation of three more fatal cases of the virus.
The latest victims include two women in their 70s, one of whom died in late December and the other in early January at Scott & White Hospital in Temple.
They both had the H1N1 strain of the flu, Bell County Public Health District disease surveillance coordinator Lacy Sanders said Thursday.
The third victim whose death was confirmed Thursday was a Coryell County woman in her 50s who died at Metroplex Hospital in Killeen.
A Coryell County man in his 60s died of the flu in late December at the Temple VA Hospital and the virus claimed the life of a 2-week-old girl in early January at McLane Children's Hospital Scott & White in Temple.
The first flu death in McLennan County was confirmed earlier this week.
Re: Texas - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 (other than Dallas or Houston areas)
Grayson County reports first flu death of the year
GRAYSON COUNTY, TX -- Texas is experiencing one of the worst flu seasons in the nation, and on Thursday night Grayson County reported its first flu death this year.
Amanda Ortez with the Grayson County Health Department confirms a Whitesboro man has died of Type A Flu. He was admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian-WNJ with respiratory problems and multiple underlying flu symptoms. He died January 6th at age 73. Officials don't know if he had been vaccinated with the flu.
