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Officials: Area Teen Dies From H1N1 Flu
Victim Had No Underlying Medical Conditions, County Health Experts Say
POSTED: 3:47 pm MST September 30, 2009
UPDATED: 4:18 pm MST September 30, 2009
PHOENIX -- A Valley teenager with no underlying medical conditions died from H1N1 flu in early September, the Maricopa County Department of Public Health said on Wednesday.
The victim was from Maricopa County, said Jeanene Fowler of the county health department.
Because of privacy laws, not much is known about the teen, such as where he or she went to school.
Earlier this week, Yavapai County health officials reported that county's first death from H1N1 flu.
Yavapai County Community Health Services reported late Monday that a middle-aged man with the virus died Sunday.
County Health Officer Robert Resendes would not give any further information on the man because of privacy issues.
A news release said the victim had several underlying health conditions.
Separately, state health officials said they now expect to get slightly more flu vaccine in initial shipments due sometime next week.
The Arizona Department of Health Services said it is placing orders for the first batch of the new swine flu vaccine on Wednesday with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Officials expected to receive slightly more than 60,000 doses of the flu vaccine mist, but said Wednesday they now expect about 70,000 doses in that first batch.
County health departments will decide how the first doses are distributed. In Maricopa County, none of the doses are targeted for the public. They'll go to health workers only. In Coconino County, they'll go to pediatricians' offices and hospitals.
"We can manage the vaccine that we're getting in a far different way than (Maricopa County) can," said Coconino County Health Department Director Barbara Worgess. "But we won't ever be getting as much as the providers want."
For instance, Worgess said her office can phone each health provider in the county of about 120,000 residents and ask them how much vaccine they want, something impossible in Maricopa County.
The first huge allotment of injectable vaccine, between 800,000 and 1 million doses, should be in Arizona by the end of October.
The state had 1,684 confirmed cases of swine flu as of Sept. 23, but officials say many cases go unreported. As of Tuesday, 28 deaths had been reported across the state.
By the height of the flu season in January, Arizona Department of Health Services Director Will Humble said the state hopes to have vaccinated from 60 percent to 70 percent of the population -- as many as 4 million people.
Arizona has received roughly $30 million in federal funds to plan for and implement its flu mass vaccination programs. All but about 10 percent will be passed on to the state's 15 counties, Humble said.
Officials: Area Teen Dies From H1N1 Flu
Victim Had No Underlying Medical Conditions, County Health Experts Say
POSTED: 3:47 pm MST September 30, 2009
UPDATED: 4:18 pm MST September 30, 2009
PHOENIX -- A Valley teenager with no underlying medical conditions died from H1N1 flu in early September, the Maricopa County Department of Public Health said on Wednesday.
The victim was from Maricopa County, said Jeanene Fowler of the county health department.
Because of privacy laws, not much is known about the teen, such as where he or she went to school.
Earlier this week, Yavapai County health officials reported that county's first death from H1N1 flu.
Yavapai County Community Health Services reported late Monday that a middle-aged man with the virus died Sunday.
County Health Officer Robert Resendes would not give any further information on the man because of privacy issues.
A news release said the victim had several underlying health conditions.
Separately, state health officials said they now expect to get slightly more flu vaccine in initial shipments due sometime next week.
The Arizona Department of Health Services said it is placing orders for the first batch of the new swine flu vaccine on Wednesday with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Officials expected to receive slightly more than 60,000 doses of the flu vaccine mist, but said Wednesday they now expect about 70,000 doses in that first batch.
County health departments will decide how the first doses are distributed. In Maricopa County, none of the doses are targeted for the public. They'll go to health workers only. In Coconino County, they'll go to pediatricians' offices and hospitals.
"We can manage the vaccine that we're getting in a far different way than (Maricopa County) can," said Coconino County Health Department Director Barbara Worgess. "But we won't ever be getting as much as the providers want."
For instance, Worgess said her office can phone each health provider in the county of about 120,000 residents and ask them how much vaccine they want, something impossible in Maricopa County.
The first huge allotment of injectable vaccine, between 800,000 and 1 million doses, should be in Arizona by the end of October.
The state had 1,684 confirmed cases of swine flu as of Sept. 23, but officials say many cases go unreported. As of Tuesday, 28 deaths had been reported across the state.
By the height of the flu season in January, Arizona Department of Health Services Director Will Humble said the state hopes to have vaccinated from 60 percent to 70 percent of the population -- as many as 4 million people.
Arizona has received roughly $30 million in federal funds to plan for and implement its flu mass vaccination programs. All but about 10 percent will be passed on to the state's 15 counties, Humble said.