Influenza A cases picking up in San Diego CountyUnited StatesCalifornia
So far this season, a total of 106 lab-confirmed flu cases have been reported in San Diego County, compared to 26 at the same point last year and 114 the year before that. This season’s influenza vaccine won’t be widely available locally until late September; however, some local pharma...
Setting: Nineteen medical clinics serving children, adults, or both in San Diego County participated. Participants: Parents of children aged 6 months to 5 years and adults aged 50 years and over seen by a primary care provider during January through March 2009. Main Outcome: Influence of clinic...
In 2003, the U.S. Department of Agriculture destroyed more than 3.5 million chickens in California to halt the spread of Exotic Newcastle Disease (caused by a virus similar to the avian flu viruses). As part of the destruction, workers in San Diego County dumped thousands of live egg-laying...
confirmed cases were also reported in the United States. The first reported cases in the U.S. came from San Diego County and Imperial County in California and Guadalupe County in Texas. Reports from other states rapidly followed, and the disease spread rapidly around the globe. The World Healt...
For years, public health professionals had been preparing for a scenario in which influenza A (H5N1) would emerge from Southeast Asia [34, 35], only to confront instead a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus of swine origin in San Diego County, California [7, 8]. Pandemic planning scenarios ...
Preparing for the But the topic of mass deaths caused by a pandemic flu has been on the minds of many Winnebago County officials over the past year. In a worst case scenario … http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/local_wluk_winnebagocounty_preparing_for_the_pandemic_flu_200903101650_rev1...
Are some of your symptoms leading you to believe that you have the flu? Influenza, more commonly referred to as the flu, is a contagious respiratory illness cause by influenza viruses (and yes there are more than one strains of this illness). Common flu symptoms include, but are not limite...
The machine-learning classifier yielded the highest correlations for many of the cities when using the sentinel-provided or emergency department ILI as well as the number of laboratory-confirmed influenza cases in San Diego. High correlation values (r=.93) with significance at P<.001 were ...
Are some of your symptoms leading you to believe that you have the flu? Influenza, more commonly referred to as the flu, is a contagious respiratory illness cause by influenza viruses (and yes there are more than one strains of this illness). Common flu symptoms include, but are not limite...