The death of a 5-year-old Nashville boy who had the H1N1 virus has put parents on alert to look for the slightest signs that their child might be sick.
Max Gomez, who was a student at Henry Maxwell Elementary School in Antioch, became ill Friday and was admitted to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt on Monday. He died the same day. The state testing lab confirmed Wednesday that the boy had the H1N1 virus.
An initial autopsy did not indicate other health problems, though results will not be final for another 60 days.
Someone on another forum suggested this was strep related but there is no info on this.
When 5-year-old Alitza Ortiz Sanchez arrived at a local hospital emergency room last week, she wasn't suffering from some of the most common flu symptoms, her mother said Thursday.
In fact, Sanchez had been diagnosed with a urinary infection the day before by a doctor in Tijuana. She had a persistent headache and purplish swelling around her eyes, but no fever, sore throat, cough or runny nose.
"We didn't think it was the flu," said her mother, Itzya Sanchez, 29.
A test conducted after Alitza arrived at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego revealed that Alitza was infected with the H1N1 virus, but the results arrived after the girl had suffered the first of what would be four heart failures.
The Houston Health Department reports a 16-year-old Dobie High School junior died of a confirmed case of the H1N1 virus.
For weeks family members didn't suspect anything out of the ordinary. They believed Jose Sepulveda, 16, was just fighting an upper respiratory infection.
"He really didn't have any bad symptoms, just a dry cough, and to us we just thought it was his asthma," said Cynthia Sepulveda, Jose's mother.
But his mom soon learned there was something else terribly wrong. Around October 4th, Jose could hardly breathe, and his fingertips had turned purple. He wound up at Texas Children's Hospital. Doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia and eventually swine flu.
A Chaves County teenager with underlying health conditions has died from complications caused by the swine flu.
The state Department of Health says the death of the 15-year-old girl Saturday brings the statewide number of swine flu-related deaths to 13 this year.
The Health Department did not indicate what chronic condition the girl had.
KDFW-TV reported the girl was 4-year-old Yeimi Sierra Reyes. The Tarrant County medical examiner's office said the girl died Wednesday but did not list a cause of death.
The school district said in a statement that it had no information regarding the cause of death but that custodial staff was sanitizing the school. "This step was taken strictly as a measure of assuring our parents, staff and students that we are mindful of their safety in all situations," the school district said.
KDFW-TV reported that Yeimi began experiencing flu-like symptoms Monday, including fever, chills and difficulty breathing. The girl's family told the television station that she had no underlying medical conditions.
A Coastal Health District spokeperson confirmed Monday that a 4-year-old girl from Bryan County died of an "influenza-associated" illness Sunday in a Savannah Hospital.
No other information was released, but various media reports say the girl is preschool student at Savannah Christian Preparatory School, and according to the SCPS website at http://www.savcps.com the school's daycare has closed for two days after a 4-year-old girl in the school's "daycare/preschool" got sick early Saturday morning and died Sunday afternoon at Memorial Health Medical Center.
"Doctors have not, as yet, firmly determined the cause. Parents acknowledged that the nausea was not accompanied by fever (seeming to rule out the primary characteristic of the H1N1 virus). Her sister, a student in the SCPS Lower School, had a fever, tested positive for the flu, and is being treated. Test results will not be back for two days, so it is not known at this time if she has Influenza A or the H1N1 virus. She will be out of school until it is safe for her to return."
The boy's mother told News 5's Karin Johnson that Joseph became ill Oct. 2 while riding a school bus to Clearcreek Elementary, where he was a kindergartner, and was lethargic when he came back home.
His parents took him to a doctor, who admitted Joseph to a hospital where he initially tested negative for H1N1 before contracting pneumonia and then testing positive for the virus.
Joseph died Sunday, and health officials attributed his death to respiratory failure, saying the boy had pre-existing breathing troubles. His mother said Joseph had asthma, but that his case was mild and caused only some wheezing when he became sick.
A Hillcrest High School freshman has died after experiencing flu-like symptoms, and District 93 school officials are saying this a possible case of H1N1.
The male student died late Sunday night after getting sick last week. Tests were sent out and results will likely come back late Monday or Tuesday. Parents of the student have requested an autopsy to determine exactly how their son died.
Counselors will be at the school Monday to speak with any students affected by this death. School officials have not released the name of the student.
A first-grade boy has died of the H1N1 influenza virus, the Kings County Health Department reported today.
The boy was not identified. He had many medical problems, but the H1N1 infection was the main contributor to his death, said Keith Winkler, the county's health director.
The boy died at Children's Hospital Central California in Madera County over the weekend, Winkler said.
An 11-year-old Oak Grove, Mo. boy died of sudden illness. Jordan Smith had just turned 11 on Thursday, Oct. 15. Three days later he passed away.
An Oak Grove parent emailed FOX 4 saying she was told his death was from H1N1, but officials have not confirmed that. So far, there has been no official ruling on what caused his death. The Jackson County medical examiner is scheduled to perform an autopsy.
Jack Unkenholz, 8, died Sunday in Rapid City Regional Hospital, four days after his family took him to the emergency room with flu symptoms. He had been scheduled for a flu shot last Friday.
Jack was diagnosed with Menkes syndrome soon after birth, which caused profound delays in mental and physical development. His mother said he still was an active third-grader who communicated with smiles and gestures.
She and her husband, Eric, a Rapid City dentist, learned of their son's disabilities when he was 4 months old. They said they knew his catching the flu would be serious but that his death still was a shock. Their other two children, Elise, 5, and Collin, 2, also caught the virus shortly before Jack, they said.
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st. charles east high school closed after major flu outbreak
a high school in west suburban st. charles will be closed for the rest of the week after hundreds of students called in tuesday with flu-like symptoms.
st. charles east high school at 1020 dunham rd. will be closed wednesday and will not reopen until at least monday, according to an alert on the school's web site tuesday afternoon.
the closure was prompted by "an unusually high amount of absences due to illness," the alert said. "the high level of absences is beginning to impact normal school operations."
unconfirmed reports said about 700 students called in on monday, but school officials decided to keep the school open, according to the district web site. when the number rose to an unconfirmed 900 on tuesday, the closure was ordered....
Walter Jr., was full of life, an energetic college freshman from Brooklyn Park, until last Wednesday, when he was hospitalized with a suspected case of swine flu.
"Last time I talked to him, he just kept saying, 'I love you, I love you mom.' That was before they intubated him..."
On Tuesday, doctors amputated Walter's legs in a last ditch effort to rejuvenate his internal organs, but the surgery was unsuccessful.
"If you told me he was shot or hit by a car, or in an accident, I could learn to accept more than the flu taking him away. It just doesn't make sense how it can take a health 18-year-old boy with no medical condition at all," said Denise.
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Someone on another forum suggested this was strep related but there is no info on this.
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