Epidemic Hazard – State of Alabama, Dothan [Southeast Alabama Medical Center] : U.S. and state health authorities are investigating an unidentified respiratory illness that has killed two of 10 people hospitalized with it in Alabama since last week UPDATE
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| 23.05.2013 | Epidemic Hazard | USA | State of Alabama, Dothan [Southeast Alabama Medical Center] |  |
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Epidemic Hazard in USA on Wednesday, 22 May, 2013 at 03:30 (03:30 AM) UTC.
| Updated: | Thursday, 23 May, 2013 at 03:24 UTC |
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| U.S. and state health authorities are investigating an unidentified respiratory illness that has killed two of 10 people hospitalized with it in Alabama since last week. Preliminary tests do not indicate the bird flu, nor a new mutation of any known influenza virus, said Dr. Mary McIntyre, an assistant state health officer at the Alabama Department of Public Health. Two patients did test positive for the H1N1 strain of the flu. Bacteria such as MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) remains a possibility, especially as a secondary infection, McIntyre said on Wednesday. However, one patient tested for MRSA by a physician had negative results. “At this point, it could be anything. We are testing for everything,” McIntyre said. State health officials believe it is unlikely the patients are suffering from the new coronavirus that surfaced in the Middle East last year, because none had traveled, she said. Laboratory samples were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for evaluation, and the agency is expected to issue a report within 24 hours, she said. Those hospitalized with the illness had symptoms of fever, coughing, pneumonia and shortness of breath, health officials said. The first checked into a hospital last week, and the most recent patients were hospitalized on Wednesday. One person has been released, one is improving and the others are still suffering from their initial symptoms, according to McIntyre. The patients range in age from the 20s to late 80s and all lived in the Dothan, Alabama, area, but they were spread out around the community with no epidemiological link, McIntyre said. “Right now, we are not finding a connection…such as a place of work, a restaurant where they all ate, or a meeting they all attended,” she said. People with similar symptoms are encouraged to stay home and call their physician, health officials said. |
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Alabama mystery illness determined to be flu, cold or pneumonia
Seven Alabama residents sickened by a mysterious illness this month that resulted in two deaths actually had cases of the flu, a cold virus or pneumonia, state health officials announced Thursday.
State and local authorities had been conducting laboratory tests from samples taken from the seven patients in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The lab samples revealed a combination of influenza A, rhinovirus (the virus associated with the common cold), and bacterial pneumonia.
The news assuaged fears that the illnesses were caused by viruses that are behind recent overseas outbreaks.
“This is good news,” state health officer Dr. Don Williamson said in a press release. “Testing has ruled out avian flu and novel coronavirus.”
A bird flu outbreak has sickened at least 131 people this year, mostly in China, and resulted in 26 deaths. Forty-four patients in the Middle East and Europe have been infected with a deadly respiratory infection since September 2012 that is a new type of coronavirus, a family of viruses that range from the common cold to deadly SARS. Twenty-two people have died, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
All seven Alabama patients were tested and six of the samples came back positive for either influenza A, rhinovirus or a combination of the two. Three patients were found to have bacterial pneumonia.
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Comments
Officials aren't saying anything other than it has been determined to be the flu.
If you want to believe the Official story that is ?
Since we do not have access to lab results we most likely will never know if there is an anomaly that would indicate a connection to Chemtrails. It was independent lab tests done that isolated substances from Chemtrails in samples taken from Morgellons patients. So we are left to wonder.......
Chemtrails??