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Following CDC guidelines, we cultured the first few cases, and once we had confirmed that we had documented H1N1 in our community, we proceeded to make the diagnosis of subsequent cases based on clinical features (fever, cough, headache, muscle aches). Antiviral agents—such as Tamiflu—have been reserved only for those patients who are at higher risk for complications...
...study, published in the CDC journal “Emerging Infectious Diseases,” estimated that the total number of swine flu cases in the United States between April and July 2009 ran up to 140 times higher than the number of cases confirmed by laboratory tests...
Though it is difficult to find accurate epidemiological numbers, more exact estimation will help to inform vaccine and treatment recommendation to improve predictions of future spread, Lipsitch wrote. The CDC reported on October 23 that the fast-moving “swine flu” pandemic had spread to 177 countries worldwide and that flu activity remains widespread in 46 U.S. states. The latest weekly report from the World Health Organization only accounts for 440,000 laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic H1N1 influenza through the end of October throughout the globe, admitting that the case count is likely...
...seasonal variety, which tends to be most harmful to those over 65 years old, swine flu skews far younger, which explains the large number of parents with children still dressed in their pajamas who waited hours outside the Encino clinic before the sun rose to get the vaccine. (The CDC found that more than half of the hospitalizations from 2009 H1N1 flu reported by 27 states between Sept. 1 and Oct. 10 were people aged 24 and younger. About 23% of the deaths reported from 28 states during this period were in this age group...
...delays for both the seasonal and H1N1 vaccines. "We have heard from various parts of the country, from clinicians to other folks who are part of being providers of the vaccine, that they have not received their supply that's been ordered, unfortunately," says Llelwyn Grant, spokesperson for the CDC. "We recognize we're behind the curve in getting out the amount of doses to support many of the clinics and other facilities that are set up for the vaccine, but we still have time and we're working steadily with some manufacturers to increase those numbers...