Deaths from H1N1 to 47
deaths of H1N1 to 47 (Image)
four men with chronic health problems are the latest New Mexico, whose deaths have been linked to H1N1, the state of Health Ministry reported Wednesday.
December 16, 2009
ILI
visits to health care providers for ILI decreased 4.5 percent last week to 3.3 percent this week. The department monitors influenza-like illness, defined as fever and cough and / or sore throat, at 26 clinics across the state. ILI is the best indicator of influenza activity in the state.
influenza H1N1 is still the predominant strain of influenza in New Mexico at this time. All positive tests for influenza are presumed to be new H1N1. The severity of illness due to influenza H1N1 has not changed at the national or New Mexico in the spring.
deaths
The Ministry of Health reporting four new deaths in the last week in New Mexico for a total of 47. All patients had chronic illnesses that put them at higher risk for complications of influenza. The cases were a 62-year-old boy and a 89-year-old Bernalillo County as a man 85-years of Doña Ana County and a man of 39, from Santa Fe County.
disease investigation:
The overall rate of hospitalizations laboratory-confirmed influenza for New Mexico is 46 per 100,000 inhabitants. The specific rate per country varies from 11.2 per 100,000 for the county of Torrance 150.1 per 100,000 for the county of Colfax.
The overall death rate of laboratory-confirmed influenza for New Mexico is 2.3 per 100,000 inhabitants. Rates specific to each region for the range of the state of 1.7 per 100,000 population for the South West to 3.1 per 100,000 population for the South East.
deaths laboratory-confirmed influenza by region of residence />
* Northwest: 9 deaths (2.0 per 100,000)
* North: 6 deaths (2.0 per 100,000)
* Central: 17 deaths (2.6 per 100,000 population br)
* Southeast: 9 deaths ( 3.1 per 100,000)
* South West: 7 deaths (1.7 per 100,000)
(estimated 2008 population of the University of New Mexico Office of Business and Economic Research.)
Vaccine Information The Department of Health has ordered about 554,300 doses of H1N1 vaccine and nasal injection. The vaccine has arrived in small quantities and is distributed to providers and public health offices throughout the state. Due to a change in how the vaccine is in circulation in New Mexico, the department can more accurately track how much each county has received vaccines.
The Ministry of Health expanded the priority groups at high risk last week, adding all children and young adults from 6 months to 24 years. The Department encourages people in the course of vaccination priority groups get vaccinated H1N1 soon as possible:
* Pregnant women
* Household members / guardians of children less than six months
* Children and young adults 6 months to 24 years
* Adults 25-64 years of age with chronic health problems that increase their risk of influenza complications workers
* Health care personnel and emergency medical services with direct patient care.
The Ministry of Health encourages people in the priority group to call their current providers of primary health care first ask if they offer a novel H1N1 vaccine. People in the priority groups without insurance or a health care provider, or whose provider does not offer the H1N1 vaccine, the vaccine may receive from a local health service.
by County
So far, there were 957 hospitalizations related to influenza H1N1 this year. This week, the Ministry of Health report of seven new admissions.
hospitalizations by county are:
Bernalillo County (243), Catron County (2) Chaves County (16), Cibola County (12), Colfax County (22), Curry County (57), Doña Ana County (119), Eddy County (28), Grant County (20), Guadalupe County (1), the Hidalgo County (2), Lea County (30), Lincolnshire (6), County of Los Alamos (4), Luna County (13), McKinley County (71) Mora County ( 1), Otero County (28), Quay (7), Rio Arriba County (20), Roosevelt County (9), County of San Juan (61), County of San Miguel (9), the Sandoval County (41), Santa Fe County (47) Sierra County (10), Socorro County (> 16), Taos County (22), Torrance County (2), Union County (1), Valencia County (30) and 7 cases of residence has not yet been determined.