Officials Confirm 4th Local H1N1 Case & 2 More Probable
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UPDATE: Franklin County health officials confirmed a fourth case of H1N1 in an OSU student and deemed two more local cases as probable.
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Franklin County health officials confirmed a fourth case of H1N1 in an OSU student and deemed two more local cases as probable.
An OSU spokesperson confirmed the case of H1N1 is the female Ohio State student who was deemed a probable case last Friday.
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The female student was living in Morrison Tower. She was isolated from other students and was being treated.
Two new Franklin County probable H1N1 cases also were confirmed Wednesday.
One is in a young adult female, and the other is an elderly man, according to health officials.
The probable case samples have been referred for further testing.
The female patient is in voluntary isolation.
The elderly male is hospitalized.
Ohio has a total of seven confirmed cases and four of them are in Franklin County: a 9-year-old male in Lorain County, a 31-year-old male in Franklin County, a 33-year-old male in Franklin County, a 20-year-old female from Franklin County, a 39-year-old female from Holmes County, a 39-year-old female from Portage County and a 30-year-old man from Butler County.
Franklin County has two probable cases.
Cuyahoga County has two probable cases in a 9-year-old male and 41-year-old female. Fulton County has one probable case in a 10-year-old female.
Lab work for two suspected cases of H1N1 flu in Licking County that had been sent to the Ohio Department of Health laboratory regarding cases involving Licking County residents tested negative for H1N1 Wednesday.
Ohio had 40 suspected cases of H1N1 Wednesday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed 33 countries are reporting an estimated total of 5,916 confirmed swine flu cases, including 3,009 in 45 U.S. states, 2,282 in Mexico and 358 in Canada.
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Reader Reactions
I’m glad this hasn’t turned out to be the huge epidemic we all feared, but two points are worth making:
1. Anyone who has studied epidemiology knows that the distribution of cases we saw is exactly what is seen right before a huge outbreak occurs; and, more importantly
2. One day there will be a genuine epidemic, and we will see the same pathetic response by officials, the misinformation, disinformation and outright lies about preparedness and action being taken. We are in no way ready for something that is bound to happen sooner or later.
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