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<!--/vancouversun/header_nav.inc --><!-- navbarwrapper ends --><!-- navabr ends -->B.C. rate for positive H1N1 tests much higher
Frank Luba, Vancouver Province
October 17, 2009 6:01 PM
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Dr. Perry Kendall, B.C. Health Officer, at the H1N1 laboratory in Vancouver, October 16, 2009.
Photograph by: Bill Keay, Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER ? B.C. leads the nation in positive tests for the H1N1 virus, also called swine flu.
Provincial Health Officer Dr. Perry Kendall says the rate of positive tests for the potentially deadly flu in B.C. is ?several times higher than in the rest of Canada.?
In B.C., about 50 per cent of the samples for H1N1 are proving positive compared to other provinces where only five to 10 per cent of the samples are proving positive. The B.C. Centre for Disease Control is testing about 700 samples a day, Kendall added.
He was joined Friday by federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, Canadian Chief Public Health Officer Dr. David Butler-Jones and others at the Vancouver-based centre to give an update on H1N1.
?Most of the country is still seeing sporadic outbreaks,? said Butler-Jones.
But Kendall said B.C. is ?well into? a second wave of an H1N1 pandemic that first raised alarms in April.
There have been 78 hospitalizations for H1N1 in B.C. and eight deaths, although seven of those deaths involved people with underlying medical conditions.
The latest case, reported to be mom Ashley Miller, 26, of Mission, B.C., is still being investigated.
The vaccine for H1N1 isn?t going to be made available until the first week of November.
Officials acknowledge a lack of full research on the effect on pregnant women of the vaccine being prepared. The vaccine includes an additive to boost effectiveness called an adjuvant.
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/rate+positive+H1N1+tests+much+higher/2116063/story.html
Frank Luba, Vancouver Province
October 17, 2009 6:01 PM
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Dr. Perry Kendall, B.C. Health Officer, at the H1N1 laboratory in Vancouver, October 16, 2009.
Photograph by: Bill Keay, Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER ? B.C. leads the nation in positive tests for the H1N1 virus, also called swine flu.
Provincial Health Officer Dr. Perry Kendall says the rate of positive tests for the potentially deadly flu in B.C. is ?several times higher than in the rest of Canada.?
In B.C., about 50 per cent of the samples for H1N1 are proving positive compared to other provinces where only five to 10 per cent of the samples are proving positive. The B.C. Centre for Disease Control is testing about 700 samples a day, Kendall added.
He was joined Friday by federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, Canadian Chief Public Health Officer Dr. David Butler-Jones and others at the Vancouver-based centre to give an update on H1N1.
?Most of the country is still seeing sporadic outbreaks,? said Butler-Jones.
But Kendall said B.C. is ?well into? a second wave of an H1N1 pandemic that first raised alarms in April.
There have been 78 hospitalizations for H1N1 in B.C. and eight deaths, although seven of those deaths involved people with underlying medical conditions.
The latest case, reported to be mom Ashley Miller, 26, of Mission, B.C., is still being investigated.
The vaccine for H1N1 isn?t going to be made available until the first week of November.
Officials acknowledge a lack of full research on the effect on pregnant women of the vaccine being prepared. The vaccine includes an additive to boost effectiveness called an adjuvant.
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/rate+positive+H1N1+tests+much+higher/2116063/story.html