Claim: Health officials in Omaha confirm 2 pediatric flu deaths.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: 2009 flu pandemic timeline
text: study shows that children are twice as likely as adults to catch H1N1. United States CDC FluView Week 52: The proportion of deaths attributed to P&I falls below the epidemic threshold. No influenza activity is reported in Nebraska. "One state reported geographically widespread influenza activity, 12 states reported regional influenza activity, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and 17 states reported local influenza activity, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 19 states reported sporadic influenza activity, and one state reported no influenza activity." United States The CDC reports that only one state —Alabama— reports widespread influenza activity. Mali First case confirmed.

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: reported in a teen boy attending a Minneapolis Public School. A Minneapolis five-year-old girl had succumbed to the flu during the week of June 8. As of July 23, 684 cases and three deaths have been reported. As of January 13,2 more people died of confirmed A/H1N1 influenza, increasing the number of confirmed deathsfrom H1N1 to 55 in the state.However, H1N1 influenza activity is currently low in Minnesota, with only one school outbreak reported in the first week of 2010. In Missouri, Gov. Jay Nixon announced in a written statement that a probable case had been discovered in a Platte

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: been confirmed. On May 11, 2009, the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHH) reported the state's first confirmed case of swine flu. As of July 26, there have been 122 reported cases. As of January 21, there have been 801 confirmed cases of A/H1N1, and 18 confirmed deaths due to H1N1 flu. As of July 26, 2009, there are 313 confirmed cases of swine flu in Nebraska. Nebraska has recorded sixteen hospitalizations and three deaths. as of December 11,13 deaths from A/H1N1 influenza have been reported. The first confirmed case of the virus was reported in Nevada

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: it was announced that a man from Snohomish County, in his thirties with a pre-existing heart condition and active viral pneumonia, became the third confirmed US death from swine flu-involved complications. As of January 23, there have been 1383 confirmed cases of H1N1N that required hospital care in the second wave of H1N1 (since September 19, 2009), and 76 deaths. On July 1, 2009, it was reported that the Tri-Cities had its first case of swine flu. On June 18, 2009, Grant County Health Department reported six cases of swine flu in Quincy. As of the evening of May 22,

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: there had been 30 deaths from H1N1 in Utah, 18 through August 31, 2009 and a further 12 since that time. On November 18, 2009 the Utah State Health department reported five more deaths from swine flu. The Vermont Department of Health announced a probable case of the H1N1 virus in rural Orleans County. A second case of the flu was confirmed involving an adult in Windsor County. As of July 22, there have been 62 laboratory confirmed cases. The Virginia Department of Health had confirmed 14 cases in the state by May 7, and a total of 23 by

title: 2009 flu pandemic in Europe
text: Greece and the United Kingdom. On 6 November the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment reported there are 5 more cases of death (this brings the total to 17) and that there is an epidemic, which means more than 51 per 100,000 inhabitants contracted the flu, more than 2 weeks in a row. On 4 December the number of fatalities rose to 42. On 4 January 2011, it was confirmed that another 2 children died of swine flu. One of them would be a 4-year-old girl. They both lived in the region of Nijmegen, Gelderland. They died

title: 2017–18 United States flu season
text: recent flu outbreak had killed at least 63 children. On February 10, 2018, officials in New York City confirmed the third pediatric flu death for the 2017–2018 season. The week prior, 43 states reported high patient traffic for the flu, with flu remaining widespread in each state except Hawaii and Oregon. California was hit especially hard by the 2017–18 flu outbreak. In California as of 6 January, twenty-seven people under the age of 65 died from flu since October, nine times as many as the prior year. The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center emergency room, which often caters to about

title: 2009 Flu pandemic in North America
text: Control and Prevention had officially confirmed through tests that a 23-month-old child was infected with the flu. When the sickness continued to worsen the next day, he was transferred to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, where he died. 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

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: Hospital sent samples in to the CDC. There are also possible cases at the Baylor College of Medicine outpatient clinic, Memorial Hermann Hospital, and St. Luke's Hospital. A 23-month-old Mexican toddler who had been brought to Houston from Brownsville died on April 27, making the child the first US death due to the outbreak. The child had traveled with his family from Mexico to Brownsville to visit relatives. The infant was admitted to a Brownsville hospital after becoming ill, then transferred to Texas Children's Hospital the next day. The toddler suffered from chronic muscle weakness, a heart defect, a swallowing

title: 2009 flu pandemic timeline
text: bodies of two infants who died in the outbreak. United States CDC FluView, Week 13: Widespread influenza activity in four states, regional activity in 18. European Union The media monitoring website MedISys reports on a Mexican article about the epidemiological alert. Mexico Public health authorities begin investigating unusual cases of pneumonia. 400 people had reportedly sought treatment for pneumonia/influenza-like illness (ILI) in La Gloria the preceding week. Biosurveillance firm Veratect reports the unusual respiratory illness in Mexico. Veratect publishes the alert "La Gloria: 'Strange' Respiratory Affects 60% of Local Population; Three Pediatric Deaths May be Associated with the Outbreak." United

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: having a c-section to give birth to her child at 32 weeks gestation. As of October 9, 2009 a 14-year-old boy was reported as Ohio's first pediatric death. In Muskogee, Oklahoma a man who recently visited Mexico had been admitted into a hospital after having H1N1 flu symptoms, but test results on May 1 returned negative. On May 5, a woman from Pontotoc County was confirmed to have H1N1 flu, On May 7, Oklahoma State Department of Health confirmed three new cases of the H1N1 virus: a child from Oklahoma County, and one adult and a teenage female in Cleveland

title: 2009 flu pandemic
text: according to the CDC. In September 2009, the CDC reported that the H1N1 flu "seems to be taking a heavier toll among chronically ill children than the seasonal flu usually does." Through 8 August 2009, the CDC had received 36 reports of paediatric deaths with associated influenza symptoms and laboratory-confirmed pandemic H1N1 from state and local health authorities within the United States, with 22 of these children having neurodevelopmental conditions such as cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, or developmental delays. "Children with nerve and muscle problems may be at especially high risk for complications because they cannot cough hard enough to

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States
text: on September 10. Dell Children's Medical Center in Austin, Texas, erected two tents in its parking lot to handle emergency room visits, and hospitals around Colorado Springs recorded a 30 percent spike in flu visits. As pediatric cases were increasing, the Dept. of Health and Human Services released 300,000 courses of children's liquid Tamiflu from the national pandemic stockpile in late September, with the first batches sent to Texas and Colorado. In late September, the disease centers reported that 936 had died of flu symptoms or of flu-associated pneumonia since August 30, when it began a new count of deaths,

title: 2009 flu pandemic in Malaysia
text: 28 July 2009. His autopsy result confirmed that he is the nation's fifteen Influenza A(H1N1) death. On 8 August 2009, three more deaths were recorded, which brought the death cases in Malaysia to 18. The sixteenth death was a 5-year-old boy who had upper respiratory tract infection and sought treatment in a private clinic on 3 August. He was then had a seizure and was sent to Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital and confirmed to have the H1N1 virus. He died on 7 August 2009 due to acute encephalitis secondary to Influenza A(H1N1). The seventeenth death was a one-year-old toddler who

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: there were approximately 0 confirmed cases throughout all 50 states. On April 28, 2009, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first official US death of swine flu, a 23-month-old toddler from Mexico who died on April 27 while visiting Texas. By June 24, 132 deaths had been attributed to the virus. As of January 11, 2010, at least 13,837 deaths were attributed to the virus worldwide, and at least 2290 deaths in the US were confirmed to be due to the virus. The CDC suspects, however, that the total number of deaths in

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: isolated. The week prior, one patient had traveled to Mexico by plane to attend a professional conference; both he and his wife experienced minor influenza symptoms. As of July 24, 2009 there were 213 confirmed cases of swine flu in Kansas, 101 in adults and 112 in children. However, in Wyandotte and Johnson counties the state had instructed that only hospitalized patients needed to be tested so the numbers were quite possibly higher. By June 30, 2009 there were 129 confirmed swine flu cases in Kansas. As of January 9,26 people have died of infection with H1N1, including a healthy

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States
text: pigs. In mid-October, it was reported that flu caused by the H1N1 virus was widespread in 41 states, and flu-like illnesses accounted for 6.1 percent of all doctor visits, which was considered high, particularly for October. Forty-three children had died from H1N1 since August 30, which is approximately the number that usually dies in an entire flu season. Nineteen of the forty-three were teenagers while sixteen were between ages five to eleven. The rest were under five. It is reported that the severity of the disease was not increasing. About fifteen to twenty percent of the patients hospitalized for the

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: the seasonal flu. School closures in the area have since been eliminated in favor of simply sending the infected children home, resulting in slightly elevated absence rates statewide. The first death in the state due to H1N1 swine flu complications was reported by the Maricopa County Department of Public Health on May 14. As of January 15, Arizona has reported 142 deaths due to confirmed A/H1N1 influenza, including at least 2 in 2010 alone. As of July 16, 2009, the Arkansas Department of Health has reported 51 confirmed cases of swine flu. Four of the cases were from Camp Robinson,

title: 2009 flu pandemic timeline
text: underway in earnest; 40 million doses had initially been projected. According to the CDC's FluView Week 42, influenza activity is widespread in 48 states, with regional activity in just two: Hawaii and South Carolina. WHO At least 5,712 deaths worldwide are reported. China Another death confirmed, in the northwestern province of Xinjiang. Canada Canada's H1N1 vaccination campaign begins. Russia First two deaths confirmed, in the far eastern city of Chita. Portugal A ten-year-old dies 48 hours after contracting the flu. Afghanistan First death confirmed. ECDC The European Centre for Disease Control reports a total of 302 fatal cases in Europe

title: 2009 flu pandemic in New Zealand
text: 21 October, the Ministry of Health announced that the total number of death attributed to swine flu is 19 following a coroner's investigation of 21 September death of a 35-year-old woman, with underlying medical conditions, in Waikato. The ministry expected the number to rise as the coroner completes investigations into a number of influenza-related deaths occurred over the last few months. Some students among a group visiting from Japan developed influenza in Christchurch in mid-October. Four were tested positive for influenza H1N1, and a number of others had influenza like symptoms. The ministry said it appeared that their illness originated