California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area

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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced on Monday that the first hospitalization of this year?s influenza has occurred.

The laboratory confirmed case of influenza was found to be H1N1, one of the strands that is covered in this year?s vaccines. It is believed that this strain will be the most common ones this season.

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http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/vaccine_development/327271-l-a-county-reports-first-hospitalization-from-influenza-this-year/

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CA: First Flu Death Reported In Riverside County

Source: http://lakeelsinore-wildomar.patch.c...verside-county


First Flu Death Reported In Riverside County

the 30-year-old Coachella Valley man tested positive for the H1N1 strain and died this week after being briefly hospitalized, according to Dr. Cameron Kaiser, Riverside County public health officer.
Posted by Toni McAllister (Editor) , January 09, 2014 at 12:08 PM

...Officials are investigating whether the patient had other underlying health issues that may had contributed to his death.

Officials have not confirmed whether the patient had received a flu vaccine, which can be effective against the H1N1 strain...

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First Flu Death Reported In Riverside County

The 30-year-old Coachella Valley man tested positive for the H1N1 strain and died this week after being briefly hospitalized, according to Dr. Cameron Kaiser, Riverside County public health officer.

http://lakeelsinore-wildomar.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/first-flu-death-reported-in-riverside-county

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CA: LA County Reports 6 Deaths Through Week 1

This is from LA County's Influenza Watch publication for Week 1.

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Re: CA: LA County Reports 6 Deaths Through Week 1

pH1N1 Child Vaccine Escape
CDC Early 2013

Map - Active and Detailed

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<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

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Re: CA: LA County Reports 6 Deaths Through Week 1

pH1N1 Drug Resistance & Vaccine Escape
CDC Fall 2013

Map - Active and Detailed

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<hr style="width: 30%;" />29 Cases over 32 Sequences<hr style="width: 30%;" /></div>
Introduction

In the week from 2013-11-22 to 2013-11-29, the&nbsp;<span style="color: #783f04;"><b>United States CDC</b></span>&nbsp;released or updated a total of 32&nbsp;<b><span style="color: #632423; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">pH1N1</span></b>&nbsp;sequences at&nbsp;<strong>GISAID&nbsp;</strong>on 29 human cases<strong>&nbsp;</strong>sampled from July 2013 to November 2013. Geographic surveillance includes&nbsp;<b>America,</b>&nbsp;<b>India&nbsp;</b>and<b>&nbsp;Hong Kong.&nbsp;</b>

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

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Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area

LA reports 10 adult deaths and 1 pediatric death through Week 2

http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/acd/docs/IWcurrent201314.pdf

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Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Source: http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dig...79&mid=5827692


In Memory of
Gary A. Nutt Jr.
Obituary

...Gary passed away January 18th 2014 at St Joseph's Hospital from viral pneumonia H1 N1...

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Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Source: http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dig...79&mid=5827692


In Memory of
Gary A. Nutt Jr.
Obituary

...Gary passed away January 18th 2014 at St Joseph's Hospital from viral pneumonia H1 N1...

34 Years Old, Life long outdoorsman, another young father with his life halted by viral pneumonia.

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Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Source: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sea...&pid=169380066

Gladys Rubinstein

Gladys Rubinstein passed away

on January 25, 2014, at age 92, within one week of her 93rd birthday, at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, CA. Burdened with numerous physical problems, surrounded by family, she finally succumbed to a combination of pneumonia and influenza...

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Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

First localflu death reported

Dr. Robert Levin, Ventura County Public Health officer, announced recently that Ventura County?s first flu-related death has occurred. A resident under 65 died after having been hospitalized with complications related to the H1N1 virus. The victim had other underlying conditions which may have put him at risk for severe H1N1 illness.

?Flu, including the H1N1 strain, is on the rise throughout the state and, over the past week, influenza-related deaths have increased by 50 in California,? Levin said.

So far this season, the California Department of Public Health has confirmed 95 flurelated deaths statewide.

http://www.theacorn.com/news/2014-01-30/Health_%28and%29_Wellness/First_localflu_death_reported.html

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Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Source: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dis...&pid=169411938

Obituary

Skeen Timothy Francis Skeen, age 55, passed away unexpectedly on January 17, 2014 of H1N1 pneumonia at St. John's Medical Center, Santa Monica, CA...

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Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

Flu-related deaths spike in San Bernardino County

The number of flu-related deaths in San Bernardino County has spiked suddenly to 16, a 700 percent increase since Jan. 10, when there were two.

The deaths are scattered around the county with no specific regional trend, county public health officials said in a statement Friday.

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In Los Angeles County, there have been 33 flu-related deaths this season.

?In recent weeks Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center is averaging four pregnant patients per day requiring admissions due to the flu and the pediatric unit has had a number of newborns with the flu virus,? said Frank Garcia, spokesman for the Pomona hospital...

http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20140131/flu-related-deaths-spike-in-san-bernardino-county

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Flu-related deaths spike in San Bernardino County

The number of flu-related deaths in San Bernardino County has spiked suddenly to 16, a 700 percent increase since Jan. 10, when there were two.

The deaths are scattered around the county with no specific regional trend, county public health officials said in a statement Friday.

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In Los Angeles County, there have been 33 flu-related deaths this season.

?In recent weeks Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center is averaging four pregnant patients per day requiring admissions due to the flu and the pediatric unit has had a number of newborns with the flu virus,? said Frank Garcia, spokesman for the Pomona hospital...

http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20...nardino-county

Two Week
Pomona Valley Hospital Admission Count
Mothers-To-Be

56

If we examine the numbers that Mr. Garcia of Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center has produced ("4 per day") and multiply for only the past two weeks ("recent weeks"), we arrive at the astounding Hospital Admission Count for Influenza infection of 56 Pregnant young women . . . at one hospital.

Now that is one clinical unit with exceptional experience managing severe influenza in gravid cases. Careful, anonymised case notes from their wards could drive practice methods in parts of the country that may have yet to receive the spiking genetics.

We would like to see comparatives on pregnant admissions during the various California spikes in 2009 and 2010.

Who imagines when they first hear their baby's heartbeat that an unnecessary infection from a known pathogen could force them into a medically induced coma and a pre-term surgical delivery. We can't think that any mother wants to bring her child into the world like that.

But in Pomona, not unlike many other US neighborhoods, 56 Mothers-To-Be ran that risk in just the past two weeks, without the necessary information to properly guide their decision-making.

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Re: California - Seasonal flu 2013/2014 Los Angeles area - 11 deaths

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 100%;">'Thirteen of the 16 deaths are confirmed to be the H1N1 strain, which caused the 2009-2010 pandemic that killed more than 200,000 worldwide, including 45 in San Bernardino County.

Last year, there were five flu-related deaths in San Bernardino County.'

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Year Over Year
Fatality Count
San Bernardino County

320%

San Bernardino County had 5 ILI deaths in s2012 and has 16 already this season (s2013). At 320% of last year's total, most of this year's deaths appear to have come in the second half of January.