Toledo man, Henry County woman latest flu deaths

[JimO]

Toledo man, Henry County woman latest flu deaths

A 29-year-old Toledo man died today from what family members believe was a lethal combination of the flu and pneumonia.

Eric Sherman Jr. died at St. Luke's Hospital, his father, Eric Sherman Sr. told The Blade. Lucas County Coroner Dr. James Patrick said an autopsy will be conducted Wednesday. But he said his office was told by hospital officials that Mr. Sherman Jr. had the flu.

Mr. Sherman said his son went to an emergency clinic on Sunday, from which he was later released. He was taken Monday night to St. Luke's Hospital after his condition worsened.

Also today, health officials in Henry County confirmed a county resident died Jan. 6 at a Lucas County hospital. A lab test confirmed she had the H1N1 strain of the virus. She was 47.

Read more at http://www.toledoblade.com/Medical/...test-known-flu-death.html#9iYgKkzhkEov4AD5.99

 

[NS1]

Re: Toledo man, Henry County woman latest flu deaths

pH1N1
Diagnostic
Risk Level
Ohio
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Record Fatalities on Low Case Count

On January 19, 2014, the Blade of Toledo media reported Toledo-Lucas County Public Health department statistics stating that, although the flu season had just began and the overall case count was low, the level of death during the 2009 pH1N1 Pandemic had already been reached [FT#217101].

Recognition of Clinical Risk

A Record level of death on low case count sages an increase of present clinical risk.

On January 20, 2014 that highest level of recorded fatality in 5 years was exceeded after this 29 year old son of a firefighter sought medical care at an emergency clinic on Sunday, was released and returned to a hospital on Monday only to die, again under medical treatment.

Prevention of Death

Proper influenza surveillance leading to a correct diagnosis risk-level and a treatment modality commensurate to that risk may have prevented this death.

Data sparsity in Ohio and elsewhere in America, lack of relevant federal public health reporting, limits the information available to clinicians and is, therefore, predictive of these severe and fatal outcomes.

InfraStructure Review

When a firefighter's son seeks medical attention and then dies less than 48 hours later from a known pathogen during a known infective spread of that pathogen, we must pause and closely examine the infrastructure, both physical medical delivery and informational.

Anything less is dishonorable.

 

[tetano]

Re: Toledo man, Henry County woman latest flu deaths

The flu-related death Tuesday of a 29-year-old Toledo man has made this flu season Lucas County?s deadliest in the last five years.


Eric Sherman, Jr., was a youth pastor who also worked at Charter One Bank and leaves behind a 3-year-old daughter. He died in St. Luke?s Hospital, Maumee, from what his father called ?a lethal combination of the flu and pneumonia.?

Dr. David Grossman, the Toledo-Lucas County health commissioner, said Mr. Sherman likely died from the H1N1 flu strain, but that had not been confirmed as of Tuesday. An autopsy will be conducted today to determine the official cause of death.

http://www.toledoblade.com/Medical/2014/01/22/Toledo-man-latest-victim-of-deadly-flu.html

 

[NS1]

Re: Toledo man, Henry County woman latest flu deaths

The flu-related death Tuesday of a 29-year-old Toledo man has made this flu season Lucas County?s deadliest in the last five years.


Eric Sherman, Jr., was a youth pastor who also worked at Charter One Bank and leaves behind a 3-year-old daughter. He died in St. Luke?s Hospital, Maumee, from what his father called ?a lethal combination of the flu and pneumonia.?

Dr. David Grossman, the Toledo-Lucas County health commissioner, said Mr. Sherman likely died from the H1N1 flu strain, but that had not been confirmed as of Tuesday. An autopsy will be conducted today to determine the official cause of death.

http://www.toledoblade.com/Medical/2014/01/22/Toledo-man-latest-victim-of-deadly-flu.html

pH1N1
Epidemiological Correlates
Ohio & Texas
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Mr. Sherman's circumstances are very similar to the 41 year old father in Krum, Texas who worked with the youth of his church and was in formal training to become a minister [FT#215854, CBS_DFW].

Young adults who are working with groups of teenagers may consider increasing their personal health measures to reduce the high multiplicity-of-exposure risk. Using a "Low and Slow Exposure" strategy is essential against a virus that was shown in even the early specimens to replicate 1,000 times faster in mammals than standard H1N1 Seasonal Influenza. Our research shows that pH1N1 defines a variant arc when infecting a child and that genetics may manifest to promote Immune Escape in downstream hosts.

If the danger of this virus had been properly communicated to the clinicians and the public, perhaps these two fathers would be home playing with their children on their last day of recovery before returning to work.