Health officials report about six confirmed deaths from H1N1in Texas,
This is the same strain of H1N1 that caused a pandemic in 2009. Doctors have been seeing hundreds of new cases recently in Texas and nationwide. In fact, H1N1 is one of the viruses included in this year’s flu shot.
Health officials from all over the region spent Thursday afternoon in a conference call comparing notes about all the cases. They suspect that all of the cases are H1N1, or what used to be called the “swine flu.”
Officials in Montgomery County, which is where this all started, are meeting to formulate further plans, Kens 5 reports.
The illnesses started with flu-like symptoms, then progressed to pneumonia and, in some cases, organ failure. All of the patients initially tested negative for the flu.
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