A NYC woman died of swine flu this past weekend. This makes her the city’s 2nd victim and the nation’s 11th. She was in her 50’s and had other health problems.
As of Sunday, there were 280 confirmed swine flu cases and 94 hospitalizations. The amount of confirmed cases is probably not completely accurate because health officials are not testing everyone for the H1N1 strain. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene spokeswoman, Jessica Scaperotti, said that if you are sick with the flu, odds are that you have the H1N1 virus.
The first outbreak for NYC happened a little more than a month ago, when about 1,000 teenagers from a Catholic high school in Queens got ill after their return from Mexico, the initial place of the outbreak.
Since then, the virus has made it’s way through the school system and even reached the jails, causing visiting hours to be shortened and a generous supply of hand sanitizer to be dispensed. Correction officials said Thursday that a Rikers Island 2,600-inmate jail will be sanitized.
On Friday, May 22, The World Health Organization had counted more than 12,000 swine flu cases around the world; more than half of them occurring in the United States. At least 86 deaths were recorded, with 75 happening in Mexico.
Even though eighteen soldiers were infected with swine flu on an American base in Kuwait, they have recovered. Jose Lopez, a U.S. Army Major and military spokesman, said that there are currently no cases of swine flu among American troops in Iraq that have been reported.
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