Health officials have confirmed the case, but are giving out little information on the person who is sick. A child has the illness in the county, and has traveled recently. That is about all the information available on the individual.
Here is a list of confirmed cases in Kansas.
- Butler County - One case involving an adult
- Dickinson County - Two cases involving adults
- Cowley County - One case involving a child
- Douglas County - Two cases involving adults
- Ford County - One case involving a child
- Geary County - 25 cases total involving nine adults and 16 children
- Gove County - One case involving an adult
- Johnson County - 11 cases total involving four adults and seven children
- Labette County - Two cases involving adults
- Leavenworth County - One case involving a child
- Morton County - Two cases involving adults
- Ottawa County - One case involving a child
- Pottawatomie County - One case involving a child
- Reno County - One case involving an adult
- Riley County - 23 cases total involving 15 adults and eight children
- Saline County - Eight cases total involving one adult and seven children
- Sedgwick County - Three cases involving children
- Wyandotte County - 15 cases total involving two adults and 13 children
State Health Dept, news release on case in Cowley County http://www.kdheks.gov/news/web_archives/2009/06152009.htm
National information: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/
Cowley County Health Department: http://www.cowleycounty.org/cchd/
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ReplyDeleteRiley and Geary counties are 1st and 2nd. Hmmm, what do these counies have in common? You would think the most populous counties would be 1-2.
ReplyDeleteI was very sick about a month ago at the height of the swine flu hoopla.
ReplyDeleteClassic flu symptoms, body aches, sore throat, head congestion, headache, fever...
I just felt awful.
A short time later, some of my friends with whome I had close contact also developed the same symptoms.
I called the AC Clinic, and was told that the CDC was reccomending they NOT test for H1N1 unless the person with symptoms had recently traveled to Mexico, or was known to have come into contact wit an H1N1 carrier.
The doctor told me that even if I had Swine Flu, unless I had underlying health complications; was elderly, or had a compromised immune system, there was nothing they could do for me. The virus is no more severe than the common flu, and is self limiting.
They told me to drink plenty of fluids, and get plenty of rest. I got better after about 3 weeks.
I'm not saying I had swine flu, but...
If it was here a month ago, we would not necessarily have known.
I suspect it was, and that it is more wide spread than we realize. The WHO raised the pandemic level to 6 for a reason.
I totally agree that there are more cases then reported. Unbelievably its surprising that some people have not even heard of the h1n1 flu!!!
ReplyDeleteHow do we know that it hasn't been going around during regular flu season? Some people just have the flu and don't call the doctor or anything, just stay home. My daughter was sick with flu like symptoms early this year. Could of been the regular flu or could of been the h1n1 flu.
My son had pnuemonia and they didn't check for the H1N1 either.
ReplyDeleteThat goes with the crappy health care system we have here in the US. Every thing is governed by the insurance company's. They don't want to pay for what they feel are unnecessary tests. No wonder they don't want a government health care system. It might break up their little monotony they have over the people of this great country. I say take them down a peg or two.
ReplyDeleteWhat if the money spent on health insurance was used for health care instead?
ReplyDeleteThere might not be a need for health insurance at all if we had a socialized system. Take out the middle man - health insurance industry - and we might save a lot of money.
Great idea and while were at it, let's bring Hugo Chavez over and show us how to run the rest of the country! When has government run anything and it worked people?
ReplyDeleteSig Heil!
ReplyDeleteChavez's system is dictatorship and not socialist, so you can't put him in the same class as socialism. I don't think a socialized system for health insurance is the answer right now, it would throw our country into big problems all of a sudden changing our health care system. But there does need to be some changes as in putting a cap on these health insurance companies and what they are being charged by hospitals and doctors too.
ReplyDeleteI just heard on the news this morning that Obama's Socialist healthcare plan is freaking people in congress out because of how much it is going to cost. 1.6 Trillion just to cover 2/3 of the uninsured? That doesn't sound like what we need right now.
ReplyDeleteNope, when the country is in recession, you don't go into more debt, you don't go on dates, you conserve. Maybe if our leader did it, we could follow by example...but I think he means everyone but him.
ReplyDeleteAlso the previous leader, they are both guilty. This recession started in 2007, he knew it, but didn't do a damn thing to stop spending.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree. It actually started when Clinton's white house changed the lending laws, and it continued through Bush spending on wars, and now Obama is making it worse by throwing money at it and trying to pass socialist healthcare.
ReplyDeleteRon Paul in 2012