First Swine Flu Death In Florida Is A 9 Year Old Boy

Florida Swine Flu State health officials say the 9-year-old who suffered from asthma was brought to the hospital on June 8 within 24 hours of showing flu-like symptoms. He died the next day.

by The Associated Press

Published: Tue, June 16, 2009 - 10:43 am CST

MIAMI (AP) - Florida health officials say the state's first
swine flu fatality was a 9-year-old Miami-Dade County boy who
suffered from asthma.
The chief physician for the county's health department said
Tuesday the boy was brought to a Kendall hospital on June 8 within
24 hours of showing flu-like symptoms. The boy died at the hospital
the next day.
The doctor says it took health officials a week to test tissue
samples and confirm he had the swine flu virus.
The boy died about four days after he was last in school.
Neither his name nor the name of his school were released.
State health officials say Florida currently has 417 confirmed
cases of the swine flu virus, including 143 in Miami-Dade County.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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CJ Says:

Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:54 pm

Well, since the University of Kentucky and the US Centers for Disease Control say: “To date, there have been no reports that the influenza virus currently causing illness in humans is circulating anywhere in the U.S. swine herd.

As a proactive measure, USDA has reached out to all state animal health officials to affirm they have no signs of this virus type in their state. There is no sign of it.”

Purdue University said: “Flu viruses are named after the first animal they were found in,” said Sandy Amass. “This particular strain just happened to be discovered in pigs in 1930, and this is the only reason it’s called swine flu. We don’t even know if the [current] virus found in humans will infect pigs.”

I think we should let the scientists, health researchers and officials who are studying it on a daily basis decide the facts about diseases and get the media and rumors out of it.

ickthus Says:

Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:53 am

CJ, read the update to the story, yes pigs do transfer it as well as humans can back to the pigs. it was peta and ppl that have money in the pig market that were up set with the dumb ppl killing pigs as a way to stop the spread of it that paid the media to run the story about it “not” being transferable in the first place. might as well kill the ppl while they were at it. OHHHHHHH they do thay anyway but peta and the pig farms don’t really care about that.

CJ Says:

Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:56 am

I thought the media was supposed to call this the H1N1 flu. Pigs do not transfer this flu to humans and the reason the name was changed so that people wouldn’t kill pigs out of fear.