Maryland Flu Death Cluster Coughing Blood At Admission



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H1N1 Consulting Paradigm Shift Viral Evolution Intervention Monitoring Vaccine Screening Vaccine Development Expression Profiling Drug Discovery Custom Therapies Patents	Audio:Nov17 Dec1 Dec13 Jan18 twitter Commentary Maryland Flu Death Cluster Coughing Blood At Admission Recombinomics Commentary 01:30 March 7, 2012 Tests confirmed the siblings who died had a type of flu virus known as influenza A, and each also acquired a serious staph infection, Orlowski said. She said it was unlikely the infection was acquired in the hospitals because the siblings arrived coughing blood, adding: “It’s likely they came to the hospital with the infection, which is what caused the cough and fever." The above comments confirm that the death cluster in Calvert County, Maryland were due to influenza A and the siblings arrived at the hospital coughing blood, as indicated in the earlier anecdotal report, which also claimed that the funeral director was hospitalized. The initial Clavert County announcement described five cases, including four from one family. The reasons for the downgrade to four remain unclear. However, the attack rate for the affected family is 100% and the case fatality rate is at least 75%. These high rates and the coughing of blood raise concerns that the infection is due to H5N1 or a virulent H3N2v, both of which have D225G (as does H1N1pdm09 in severe and fatal cases), which is associated with lung infections followed by organ failure (which was also described in the anecdotal report) Detail on the serotype of the cluster followed by sequence data would be useful. Media Link Recombinomics Presentations Recombinomics Publications Recombinomics Paper at Nature Precedings

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