Child, 10, among eight killed, 202 hospitalized from Swine Flu in B.C.
Flu map for Oct. 30. Intense activity is shown in dark blue.
By Salim Jiwa
VICTORIA – (Update2) A ten-year-old child is among eight people killed in B.C. from Swine Flu this week.
A total of 202 people have been hospitalized in the worst week for severe illness that B.C. has recorded since the pandemic flu was first reported in April.
The B.C. government did not provide details of the child’s death nor the location where it occurred. But it is believed the child died in hospital.
This is the larges number of people admitted to hospital since the second wave of Swine Flu began in B.C. and the total number of people hospitalized from severe illness hit 300 since Oct. 20.
“Since Nov. 3, there have been 202 new severe cases of H1N1 identified in B.C. – 96 in Fraser Health, 47 in Vancouver Coastal Health, 44 in Interior Health, 11 in Northern Health and four on Vancouver Island – with eight new deaths, including three in Vancouver Coastal Health, three on Vancouver Island and two in Fraser Health,” the ministry of health confirmed in its latest bulletin issued at noon on Tuesday.
This is the highest death toll in any reporting period, but deaths have been escalating in B.C. since October when the second wave of the pandemic struck. 88 were admitted to hospital in the previous week, to take the total of those hospitalized in less than 20 days to 300.
So far, 601 people have been hospitalized in B.C. since April.
- Since Nov. 3, there have been 202 new severe cases of H1N1 identified in B.C., with eight new deaths.
- In total, BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) has confirmed 601 severe H1N1 cases in British Columbia since April 2009, including:
o Two hundred and sixty-two in Fraser Health, including eleven deaths.
o One hundred and thirty in Interior Health, including three deaths.
o Twenty-five in Northern Health.
o One hundred and fifty-seven in Vancouver Coastal Health, including five deaths.
o Twenty-seven on Vancouver Island, including four deaths.
- To date, 23 laboratory-confirmed H1N1 cases in B.C. are reported to have died. In 22 of those cases, there were underlying medical conditions.
B.C. said it will no longer report on how many patients have been admitted to ICU. The reason for failing to report that is not clear, but increasingly, both the B.C. government and the B.C. Center for Disease Control have been sanitizing their information as much as possible.
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on Nov 10 2009. Filed under Swine Flu.
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