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There is some confusion over the Alaskan woman who died in Spokane, WA. Since she acquired the infection while in Washington & died in Washington, many sources do not include her death in the Alaska numbers, which I believe is the best way to count it. If we're trying to locate where disease exists, then numbers should reflect the location where people acquired the infection, not their residential location.
The variance might also reflect one of the early cases on a cruise ship, where the person caught the infection in California or Washington, but became sick while traveling in the SE Alaskan waters.
Either way, the illness is still circulating, but whether she caught it locally in Homer or elsewhere would be significant. Given her job, she could have caught it while in meetings in Anchorage, Juneau, or out-of-state.
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Re: Alaska - Week 11 (10 hospitalizations; total deaths 11 for season)
Week 11:
10 new hospitalizations (increase) NOTE: "Reports starting March 13, 2010 represent laboratory-confirmed influenza hospitalizations only. This change was made because surveillance data suggest that respiratory pathogens other than influenza viruses are now responsible for the bulk of acute respiratory infection hospitalizations"
ILI: 1.5% (decreasing)
Influenza Surveillance Update and New Laboratory Guidelines
"...Although the 2009?10 influenza season is not over yet, laboratory indicators currently show low levels of 2009 H1N1 influenza activity in
Alaska...Therefore, weekly hospital admission reporting of patients with I&P syndrome is no longer necessary..."
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