Claim: New Mexico woman, 105, who beat 1918 flu, has COVID-19.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: 2009 Flu pandemic in North America
text: los Caballeros and the other was a 20-year-old woman from Santo Domingo Province. Each of them had visited the United States (Orlando and Seattle, respectively) before being diagnosed. On May 30, nine more cases were confirmed, all from the Carol Morgan school. On June 5, a 17-year-old pregnant girl infected with the AH1N1 virus died. 44 cases were confirmed to this date. A 29-year-old, who had recently visited Mexico, was being tested for a suspected case of swine flu. Guatemala is checking all travelers arriving from Mexico for signs of flu and stopping anyone with symptoms of the virus at

title: Cristóval María Larrañaga
text: His logs show he vaccinated 3,610 people. Larrañaga is credited for saving a generation. The children who traveled from Ciudad Chihuahua to Santa Fé with Larrañaga were children of soldiers, and were also labeled as heroes. New Mexico had been struggling against smallpox since the early 1780s; a 1781 outbreak had killed 5,000 people, which is thought to have been more than a quarter of the population in New Mexico. Fray Angélico Chávez states extant orders given to Larrañaga to vaccinate the area until 1809. He also cites Larrañaga as a notary for the state. In 1809, Larrañaga was vaccinating

title: 2009 flu pandemic in Europe
text: Mexico. On 21 May, a case was found in a 43-year-old woman from Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia who had returned from New York. One day later, Robert Koch Institute confirmed that her husband had tested positive with swine influenza too. Furthermore, their six-year-old daughter, who did not stay in New York, had been infected by her parents, bringing the total to 17. Up until 5 June 2009, the total number of confirmed cases increased to 49. Most of them were recent travelers to Mexico, the USA or the UK. There was also a single-digit number of isolated in-country-transmissions. On 19

title: 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak
text: sudden, severe shortness of breath. Doctors found the woman’s lungs to be full of fluid, and she died soon after her arrival. An autopsy revealed the woman’s lungs to be twice the normal weight for someone her age. The cause of her death could not be immediately determined, and the case was reported to the New Mexico Department of Health. Five days later, her fiancé, a young Navajo man, was en route to her funeral in Gallup when he suddenly became severely short of breath. By the time paramedics brought him to the Indian Medical Center emergency room, he had

title: 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak
text: that all of the Four Corners patients had mild flu-like symptoms such as malaise, headache, cough, and fever, with a sudden onset of pulmonary edema necessitating ventilators before eventually causing death. From April to May 1993, there were 24 reported cases in the region. Twelve of those people died, resulting in a 50% mortality rate. Of the 24 patients, 14 were Native Americans, nine were non-Hispanic whites and one was Hispanic. Navajo leaders reported that similar outbreaks had occurred in 1918, 1933, and 1934. Navajo tribal stories have identified mice as sources of bad luck and illness since the 19th

title: 2009 flu pandemic timeline
text: was infected by another patient who had just visited Mexico, namely his girlfriend). This is the first intergenerational transmission to be documented in Europe. First death outside Mexico, a 23-month-old Mexican child hospitalized in Texas. Ninety-one confirmed cases in the USA to date. First two cases reported within South Africa, by two women that travelled in Mexico weeks earlier. The cases were confirmed on 18 June 2009. Canada Confirmed: One more case in Toronto, and eight more cases in Nova Scotia, and Alberta bringing total to 28. First confirmed case. First confirmed case, a three-year-old child. The child returned from

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: May 1 the probable case number was increased to nine. As of May 30, 2009, the New Mexico Department of Health has confirmed 156 total cases of the H1N1 virus in various counties with the CDC reporting 232 cases. New Mexico has since stopped reporting cases. On April 24, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene dispatched a team of investigators to the private St. Francis Preparatory School in Queens after 150 students complained of symptoms consistent with the disease. Several of the students had recently traveled to Mexico City. New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Frieden

title: 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak
text: stopped breathing and the paramedics were performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The young man could not be revived by doctors and died. The physicians, recalling the similar symptoms and death of the young woman, reported his death to the New Mexico Department of Health. New Mexico state health officials notified the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Within a week, a task force had formed in Albuquerque that included Bruce Tempest, chief of medicine at the Indian Medical Center. Tempest quickly discovered that five people, including the young man’s fiancée, as well as an Arizona resident, all had experienced the same symptoms and

title: 2009 flu pandemic in Germany
text: Bavarian woman, who stayed for some weeks in Mexico and medicated patients in a hospital, is reported. On 15 May, two more cases were reported, a female and her son from Saxony-Anhalt were obviously infected by her husband / his father, who returned from Mexico. On 21 May, a case was found in a 43-year-old woman from Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia who returned from New York. One day later, Robert Koch Institute confirmed that her husband has been tested positive with swine influenza too. Furthermore, their six-year-old daughter, who did not stay in New York, has been infected by her

title: 2009 flu pandemic in Uruguay
text: confirmed. The age of the infected persons are between 11 and 28 years old, all located in Montevideo. The Ministry of Health is studying new probable cases, one located in Florida, one in Salto, and two in Rivera. The total amount of cases ascends to 6. May 31: Five new cases confirmed. The Ministry of Health have studied 33 suspected cases, only five cases are positive. Four of them are from Montevideo, and the remaining, is the first case from Canelones. The number of cases are now 11. June 1: Four new cases confirmed. The Ministry of Health declares that

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: ISD closed all campuses for 7 days after a student was confirmed to have contracted type A influenza. On May 5, Judy Trunnell, a woman in her 30's suffering from "chronic underlying health conditions" died of swine flu in Cameron County, near the US-Mexico border. She was the first US citizen to die from the disease. The woman, a special education teacher, had recently given birth to an eight-month-term healthy baby, delivered by caesarian section. She had been in a coma after being admitted to the hospital with breathing problems on April 19. The woman had also suffered from asthma,

title: 2009 flu pandemic in Europe
text: May, one new case in Saxony-Anhalt was confirmed, bringing the total number of people infected to 9. On 7 May, another new case in Saxony-Anhalt was reported. On 8 May, an adult male living in Bavaria who had recently been to the USA contracted swine flu. On 11 May, the case of a 27-year-old Bavarian woman, who stayed for some weeks in Mexico and medicated patients in a hospital, was reported. On 15 May, two more cases were reported, a female human and her son from Saxony-Anhalt. They were infected by her husband / his father, who had returned from

title: Barbara Richardson
text: pictures indicating the appropriate ages for vaccines to help parents track their children's care. Their goal was to immunize 90 percent of New Mexico's children by 2010. She is also the New Mexico chairperson of Read Across America. Also active in efforts to combat domestic violence, she helped to open a shelter for abused spouses in a corner of the state where such services had been nonexistent. In addition, she runs an annual bowling fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. Barbara Richardson Barbara Richardson (née Flavin; born March 25, 1949) is the wife of Bill Richardson, the former

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: 52-year-old man with no underlying health problems that would place him at higher risk for A/H1N1 infection.also, a 6-year-old Kansas boy and 27-year-old Kansas woman, have also died from infection with H1N1, reinforcing the fact that young, healthy people can die from infection with A/H1N1, and that vaccination is recommended even for those without preexisting medical problems. A Warren County woman who had recently visited Mexico tested positive for the virus April 30. After returning to Kentucky from Mexico, she traveled to Georgia where she was hospitalized. Health officials from both states announced this as the first confirmed case in

title: Johan Hultin
text: his services and returned to Brevig Mission. Again he received permission to dig for victims of the 1918 "Spanish flu", and this time he unearthed the remains of an obese woman, roughly thirty years old, whom he christened "Lucy". The fat had protected her lungs from decay, and he took both of them. It turned out that in Lucy's case there was enough material to sequence the complete 1918 virus many times over. This sample provided scientists a first-hand opportunity to study the virus, which was inactivated with guanidinium thiocyanate before transport. This sample and others found in U.S. Armed

title: 2009 flu pandemic in Costa Rica
text: 24-year-old woman who is recovering at home. These new patients brought the total number of Costa Ricans affected by the virus to four. Three are listed as probable cases, while one was duly confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. Four more cases were confirmed on May 4 by the Costa Rican ""Centro Nacional de Referencia en Virología"." All of these patients have recently traveled to Mexico. Since April 29 the Ministry of Health recommended to avoid travel to Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. as the number of confirmed cases by local authorities reached

title: Frederick Wedge
text: influenza in the Winter of 1917–1918, Wedge was diagnosed as having "hasty consumption" (incurable tuberculosis) and given only 2–3 months to live, with the recommendation that he move to a warmer climate. In April 1918 Wedge was discharged from his duties at Camp Grant. In late April 1918 Wedge was transported to El Paso, Texas, where after a few weeks he worked as a street car motorman for the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad. In May 1918 Wedge wrote: "Whether I get well or die, I am going to keep smiling as long as I can get a bit of

title: Lucy Maud Montgomery
text: days. I never felt so sick or weak in my life", going on to express thanks to God and her friends for helping her survive the ordeal. Montgomery's best friend Frederica Campbell MacFarlane was not so lucky and died after contacting the Spanish flu on 20 January 1919. Montgomery was upset that her husband had been indifferent to her as she was dying of the Spanish flu, which drove her to think about divorce (something very difficult to obtain in Canada until 1967; between 1873 and 1901, there were only 263 divorces out a population of six million). Ultimately, Montgomery

title: Myrtle Gonzalez
text: health was too frail for the climate, however, and Capt. Watt was placed on the retirement list so he could return her to Southern California. He went back to work at Universal and began directing. Myrtle Gonzalez died at age 27 of the Spanish flu during the worldwide pandemic of 1918 in the home of her parents at 908 W. Thirtieth Street, Los Angeles. Myrtle Gonzalez Myrtle Gonzalez (September 28, 1891 – October 22, 1918) was an American actress. She starred in at least 78 silent era motion pictures from 1913 to 1917, of which 66 were one and two-reel

title: 2009 flu pandemic in Mexico
text: is reported that, because the virus is already widespread, containment will be impossible. As of April 27, 2009, all schools nationwide remained closed until at least May 6. Health Minister Córdova noted that the number of new cases had declined during the three days: from 141 on Saturday to 119 on Sunday and 110 on Monday. It is unclear why there were more deaths in Mexico than in other areas, as there were multiple potential variables, such as a stronger strain of the virus or more exposure to it. No definite conclusion had been reached, however the CDC reported that