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H1N1 Alert! Dramatic uptick in reported cases of deadly illness.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 6406905:MV8yNDQ0NjUxXzQyMDI1OTE4XzU5RTNDNUYw] [b]H1N1 Flu Spreading in South-Central U.S.[/b] THURSDAY, Dec. 26, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- This year's flu season may be off to a slow start nationwide, but infection rates are spiking in the south-central United States, where five deaths have already been reported in Texas. And the predominant strain of flu so far has been H1N1 "swine" flu, which triggered the pandemic flu in 2009, federal health officials said Thursday. "That may change, but right now most of the flu is H1N1," said Dr. Michael Young, a medical officer with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's influenza division. "It's the same H1N1 we have been seeing the past couple of years and that we really started to see in 2009 during the pandemic." States reporting increasing levels of flu activity include [b]Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas,[/b] he said. http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2013/12/26/h1n1-flu-spreading-in-south-central-us [/quote]
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H1N1 Flu Virus Surfaces In Chicago
(CBS) – Nearly two dozen cases of the potentially deadly H1N1 flu virus have been confirmed in the Chicago area, CBS 2 has learned.
Finding the flu virus among patients at Loyola University Medical Center is keeping special machines working overtime right now.
They’ve detected a sudden burst of the 2009 swine flu spreading right here in the Chicago area. Microbiologist Paul Schreckenberger says last week alone, 21 patients tested positive for Influenza A. All but one of those cases were the 2009 H1N1 swine flu.
“We don’t know why it’s emerging,” Schreckenberger says.
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Alberta H1N1 Cases Double In One Week
One person has died from H1N1 influenza in Alberta, and the province's senior medical officer of health says this year's strain is causing a small number of people to get seriously ill.
Dr. Gerry Predy also says the number of confirmed influenza cases in the Edmonton area has jumped this week to 125, up from 65 last week.
The doctor says the number of confirmed cases will rise even more when children head back to school in January.
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