New Mexico Reports 29 total deaths

[JimO]

Source: http://nmhealth.org/H1N1/situation_update.shtml

Deaths
There have been 29 deaths related to H1N1 influenza in the state. Information about the other deaths is listed on the Department?s H1N1 website at: www.nmhealth.org/H1N1.

The Department of Health is reporting three H1N1-related deaths in the past week in New Mexico. The latest deaths are: a 66-year-old female from Bernalillo County with chronic medical conditions; a 42-year-old male from Santa Fe County with chronic medical conditions; and an 18-year-old male from Bernalillo County without chronic medical conditions.

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: New Mexico Reports 29 total deaths

UNM swine flu death tests university
Updated: Friday, 13 Nov 2009, 6:29 PM MST
Published : Friday, 13 Nov 2009, 6:29 PM MST

Reporter: Crystal Gutierrez
Web Producer: Bill Diven
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Earlier this year the University of New Mexico set guidelines to control the flu on campus, a plan put to the test after a freshman died from the disease on Wednesday.

?Very tragic at such a young age, it impacts not only people he lived with, but people in his learning community,? Dr. Beverly Kloeppel, director of the UNM student health, told KRQE News 13.

Freshman Raymond Plotkin died Wednesday night at UNM Hospital after becoming very ill with flu-like symptoms. The 18-year-old from Houston was in his first semester at UNM.

He did not have any chronic medical problems, health officials said.
The news of Plotkin's death reached students in his dorm Thursday.

?He lived right down the hall from me,? Felisha Paschel said.

Paschel said her roommate was shocked

"She was in tears last night," Paschel continued. "She was going crazy. She couldn't believe it.?

While students mourned, UNM staff began cleaning. The university said it deep-cleaned Plotkin's dorm but did not do any special cleaning to his classrooms.

?We haven't gone to each of his classes or done anything in particular in those classes,? Kloeppel said. They've been cleaning and sanitizing classrooms every day as part of strict sanitizing guidelines implemented back in August, but that's about all the university can do, she added.

?It?s a wide area, and this virus travels very rapidly,? Kloeppel said.

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