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CPH: Local 5-Year-Old Died After Contracting H1N1
By Donna Willis | Web Content Coordinator
Published: December 3, 2009
COLUMBUS, Ohio?The city of Columbus has had its second confirmed pediatric death with an association to H1N1 influenza.
NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS.
A 5-year-old boy died last month, and Columbus Public Health confirmed Thursday that the boy had H1N1 influenza.
The 5-year-old died Friday, Nov 13.
The cause of death has not been filed currently.
Lab reports confirmed the child did have H1N1 influenza, but that doesn?t mean H1N1 was the cause of death, according to CPH?s Jose Rodriguez.
Fourteen-year-old Jon Fowler died Thursday, Oct. 8, after contracting the H1N1 virus.
Fowler?s death was the city?s first local pediatric death from the virus.
Protocol requires the reporting to the health department of any pediatric death in which the decedent was carrying H1N1. Adult deaths are not required to be reported.
The health department continues to monitor the factors that are the hallmarks for its evaluation of the disease.
Rodriguez said those indicators show a falling off of cases. There still is a strong possibility of a third wave of the flu in about eight weeks, if it were to follow the pattern of earlier outbreaks.
http://www2.nbc4i.com/cmh/news/local/article/local_5-year-old_dies_after_contracting_h1n1/27689/
By Donna Willis | Web Content Coordinator
Published: December 3, 2009
COLUMBUS, Ohio?The city of Columbus has had its second confirmed pediatric death with an association to H1N1 influenza.
NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS.
A 5-year-old boy died last month, and Columbus Public Health confirmed Thursday that the boy had H1N1 influenza.
The 5-year-old died Friday, Nov 13.
The cause of death has not been filed currently.
Lab reports confirmed the child did have H1N1 influenza, but that doesn?t mean H1N1 was the cause of death, according to CPH?s Jose Rodriguez.
Fourteen-year-old Jon Fowler died Thursday, Oct. 8, after contracting the H1N1 virus.
Fowler?s death was the city?s first local pediatric death from the virus.
Protocol requires the reporting to the health department of any pediatric death in which the decedent was carrying H1N1. Adult deaths are not required to be reported.
The health department continues to monitor the factors that are the hallmarks for its evaluation of the disease.
Rodriguez said those indicators show a falling off of cases. There still is a strong possibility of a third wave of the flu in about eight weeks, if it were to follow the pattern of earlier outbreaks.
http://www2.nbc4i.com/cmh/news/local/article/local_5-year-old_dies_after_contracting_h1n1/27689/