Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Two inmates die of swine flu in California prisons
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
(11-18) 17:08 PST Sacramento, Calif. (AP) --
Health officials are blaming swine flu for killing two California prison inmates, the state's first prisoner deaths connected to the H1N1 virus.
A federal court-appointed receiver who controls prison medical care says one inmate died Tuesday in a central California prison. The other died Friday in a Southern California prison.
Receiver's spokesman Luis Patino says privacy rules bar officials from naming the specific prisons.
Preliminary tests found both inmates had Influenza A, which in previous testing has turned out to be the H1N1 virus 97 percent of the time. Final results are expected soon.
Twenty-eight of California's 167,000 inmates have been hospitalized for H1N1 flu this fall. Patino says flu cases in prisons are statistically similar to those in the general pub
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...tate/n170843S88.DTL&type=health#ixzz0XGTT5LED
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
(11-18) 17:08 PST Sacramento, Calif. (AP) --
Health officials are blaming swine flu for killing two California prison inmates, the state's first prisoner deaths connected to the H1N1 virus.
A federal court-appointed receiver who controls prison medical care says one inmate died Tuesday in a central California prison. The other died Friday in a Southern California prison.
Receiver's spokesman Luis Patino says privacy rules bar officials from naming the specific prisons.
Preliminary tests found both inmates had Influenza A, which in previous testing has turned out to be the H1N1 virus 97 percent of the time. Final results are expected soon.
Twenty-eight of California's 167,000 inmates have been hospitalized for H1N1 flu this fall. Patino says flu cases in prisons are statistically similar to those in the general pub
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...tate/n170843S88.DTL&type=health#ixzz0XGTT5LED