TN: Le Bonheur Children's Hospital ER treating three times more patients than last year due to flu

[Shiloh]

Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/n...ree-times.html


Le Bonheur ER treating three times more patients thanks to 'widespread' flu activity
Memphis Business Journal by Cole Epley, Staff writer
Date: Tuesday, January 8, 2013, 11:39am CST
After the 2009 global flu pandemic that stretched thin hospital emergency departments across the country, Le Bonheur Children?s Hospital has not approached this flu season lightly.

Hospital officials say the emergency department is seeing approximately 300 pediatric patients a day ? roughly three times the volume at the same time last year ? of which around 10 percent are being admitted...

[jeffrey]

Re: TN: Le Bonheur Children's Hospital ER treating three times more patients than last year due to flu

Just my opinion on some of these stories being hyped by the media. They are constantly comparing last years seasons to this ones and there is no comparison, at all. As we all know last year was the mildest in 30 years, or so they say. So, IMO, I really think we need to put this into perspective when reading these articles.

[sharon sanders]

Re: TN: Le Bonheur Children's Hospital ER treating three times more patients than last year due to flu

Just my opinion on some of these stories being hyped by the media. They are constantly comparing last years seasons to this ones and there is no comparison, at all. As we all know last year was the mildest in 30 years, or so they say. So, IMO, I really think we need to put this into perspective when reading these articles.

I agree. Flu is a serious matter but it seems to me that some main stream media hype anything for a buck.

It is a great public disservice. The general population is already desensitized to preparedness for flu.

[jeffrey]

Re: TN: Le Bonheur Children's Hospital ER treating three times more patients than last year due to flu

Thank you, Sharon! We need less media and much more preparedness!

[NS1]

Re: TN: Le Bonheur Children's Hospital ER treating three times more patients than last year due to flu

pH1N1 Child Vaccine Escape
CDC Early 2013

Map - Active and Detailed

<div style="text-align: center;">
<hr style="width: 30%;" />41 Cases over 43 Sequences<hr style="width: 30%;" /></div>
Introduction

In the 30 days covering 2013-02-28 to 2013-03-29, the&nbsp;<span style="color: #783f04;"><b>United States CDC</b></span>&nbsp;released a total of 43&nbsp;<b><span style="color: #632423; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">pH1N1</span></b>&nbsp;sequences at&nbsp;<strong>GISAID&nbsp;</strong>on 41 human cases<strong>&nbsp;</strong>sampled from October 2012 to February 2013. Geographic surveillance includes&nbsp;<b>America,</b>&nbsp;<b>Africa, Asia </b>and<b> Russia.&nbsp;</b>Although&nbsp;<b><span style="color: #632423; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">pH1N1</span></b>&nbsp;in most locales during the&nbsp;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>&nbsp;<b><span style="color: #632423; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">pH1N1&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #783f04;">Upsilon</span></b> polymorphisms onto single sequences.

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Read the Open-Access, Full-Text
Investigational Analytic
including Genetic Details

[NS1]

Re: TN: Le Bonheur Children's Hospital ER treating three times more patients than last year due to flu

pH1N1 Genetic Sequence
Sparsity
for
Tennessee

Only two genetic sequences are on file from Tennessee during 2013 with none after March. Those distant sequences suggest a circulation pattern similar to Texas and New Mexico.

[NS1]

Re: TN: Le Bonheur Children's Hospital ER treating three times more patients than last year due to flu

pH1N1 Genetic Sequence
Sparsity
for
Tennessee

Only two genetic sequences are on file from Tennessee during 2013 with none after March. Those distant sequences suggest a circulation pattern similar to Texas and New Mexico.

pH1N1 TamiFlu Resistance

The most recent Tennessee sequence, sampled from a 53 year old woman in March 2013, is Drug Resistant (TmX275 onto a very common Neuraminidase) and displays CrossClade tendencies with Emergent H7N9 homology on the Hemagglutinin.

The Neuraminidase lineage is common; The CrossClade Hemagglutinin lineage was widespread to geographies supporting avian inclusions, e.g. Brazil [EPI484739] and Costa Rica [EPI484980].