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  • WI: Milwaukee flu hospitalizations up significantly from last year

    Source: http://www.jsonline.com/news/health/...234910191.html

    Milwaukee flu hospitalizations up significantly from last year
    Many of hospitalized patients were young and middle-aged adults
    By Karen Herzog of the Journal Sentinel
    Dec. 7, 2013 5:23 p.m.


    Two months into the flu season, Milwaukee already has reported more than five times the number of influenza-related hospitalizations as last year. More than half of those people did not get a flu shot, according to a city health department analysis released late Friday.

    Twenty-three people in the city have been hospitalized with the flu so far this year, compared with just four this time last year. That count represents about half of all flu hospitalizations reported statewide and marks an increase from late November, when 15 flu-related hospitalizations were reported statewide and about half were in Milwaukee County...

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    Re: WI: Milwaukee flu hospitalizations up significantly from last year

    Source: http://www.jsonline.com/news/health/...239825851.html

    Flu hitting younger adults hardest in Milwaukee
    By Karen Herzog of the Journal Sentinel
    Jan. 13, 2014 4:00 p.m.

    Flu-related hospitalizations of young and middle-aged adults this flu season are their highest since the 2009 swine flu pandemic, local public health officials say.


    Usually, seasonal flu hits young children and the elderly the hardest.

    Not this season.

    Hospitalizations among the 19-to-49 and 50-to-64 age groups are up 40% over a year ago, Paul Biedrzycki, director of Disease Control & Environmental Health for the Milwaukee Health Department, said last week.


    That's in contrast to the hospitalization rate for those over age 65, which is 63% lower than a year ago, he said...

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      Re: WI: Milwaukee flu hospitalizations up significantly from last year

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      <tr style="float: center;"><td style="font-size: 140%; font-weight: bold;">Milwaukee flu hospitalizations up significantly from last year</td></tr>
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      <tr style="float: center; font-size: 60%;"><td>By Karen Herzog</td></tr>
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      <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 100%;">'It is not too late to get a flu shot, and public health officials are strongly urging vaccination as soon as possible, considering 56% of those hospitalized with flu-related illness to date were not vaccinated.

      "Clearly this early data suggests that unvaccinated individuals with health conditions such as asthma and diabetes may be at increased risk for flu complication this season," Biedrzycki said.'

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        Re: WI: Milwaukee flu hospitalizations up significantly from last year

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        <tr style="float: center;"><td style="font-size: 140%; font-weight: bold;">Milwaukee flu hospitalizations up significantly from last year</td></tr>
        <tr style="float: center;"><td style="font-size: 90%;">Many of hospitalized patients were young and middle-aged adults
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        <tr style="float: center; font-size: 60%;"><td>By Karen Herzog</td></tr>
        <tr style="float: center; font-size: 60%;"><td><a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/" target="_blank">Journal Sentinel</a> Dec. 7, 2013</td></tr>
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        <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 100%;">'It is not too late to get a flu shot, and public health officials are strongly urging vaccination as soon as possible, considering 56% of those hospitalized with flu-related illness to date were not vaccinated.

        "Clearly this early data suggests that unvaccinated individuals with health conditions such as asthma and diabetes may be at increased risk for flu complication this season," Biedrzycki said.'

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        pH1N1
        44% Vaccine Escape

        in Hospitalised Patients
        Milwaukee, Wisconsin


        During a time frame when many Emergency Departments were on "divert" status, the Milwaukee Health Department has communicated that 44% of their hospitalised patients were, in fact, vaccinated.

        Their immediate conclusion was to state that lack of vaccination raised risk factors?

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