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    Posted: May 04 2009 at 12:19am


Three swine flu cases in Oregon confirmed; two hospitalized
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Posted to Web: Sunday, May 3, 2009 05:03PM

Oregon has its first three confirmed cases of swine flu and its first victim who required intensive care, public health officials said Sunday.

The state is awaiting U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmation of another 19 probable cases, said Dr. Mel Kohn, acting director of the Oregon Public Health Division. That’s up from 14 cases reported on Saturday.

Two of the confirmed cases are in the Portland area and the third is a student at Western Oregon University, Kohn said. Of the 22 probable or confirmed cases, two required hospitalization — a child with existing health problems who has since been released and a teenage girl recovering in an intensive care unit.

“The fact that we did have a case that was hospitalized and in the intensive care unit is of concern,” Kohn said. “On the other hand, that is only one case, so it’s difficult to know what that’s going to mean in respect to severity.”

Kohn said he spoke to the doctors treating the girl and she was doing “very, very well and appeared to be on the road to recovery.”

Five of the 19 probable cases are in Lane County. Because of privacy concerns, state officials would not release the geographical location of the two probable cases requiring hospitalization.

Two of the probable cases locally involve two children about age 7 who are friends but attend different schools: Harris/Eastside Elementary and Oak Hill School, a private institution near Lane Community College. School officials have not indicated any plans to close schools — at least not until if and when a case is confirmed as swine flu.

Karen Gaffney, assistant director of the Lane County Department of Health and Human Services, said Saturday that she did not expect any of the probable local cases to be confirmed before Tuesday.

There are at least two suspected cases in Lane County in addition to the five deemed probable cases.


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Well, it doesn't sound like it's so "mild" after all. Yesterday the CDC was reporting 226 confirmed cases (waaaaay behind in the numbers I know) and 30 of those requiring hospitalizations.  Maybe it's just me, but if it requires hospitalization it doesn't seem to be "mild".
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The virus is constantly changing.    
 
Another thing that can account for a flucuating fatality rate is because the WHO is reporting a backlog of confirmed cases, plus, there could have been a few deaths that were attributed to pneumonia and that went unchecked, which is extremely likely.   
 
 
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The state continues to await U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmation of another 19 probable cases, said Dr. Mel Kohn, acting director of the Oregon Public Health Division.
 
 
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Originally posted by bellabecky bellabecky wrote:


Two of the probable cases locally involve two children about age 7 who are friends but attend different schools: Harris/Eastside Elementary and Oak Hill School,
note that only the very young are getting the more deadly reaction from the virus, its
found easyier entry with them.
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Cananda has had it first se4rious case in Alberta in intensive care 
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First Swine Flu Death Reported in U.S. - HealthLibrary
 
 
Apr 29, 2009 ...
 
Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...
 
 
 
Sixty-four percent of the cases involve people under age 18, ...
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It has been suggested that vaccinating children for seasonal flu saves lives...WHO
 
FLUZONE... ask for pediatric dosage....single vial dose/
 
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Funny how that coindices with the last flu season when they changed the seasonal flu vaccine age from all kids under 6 to all kids under 18 should receive the vaccine.   just weird is all I am saying!Dead
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