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! }' R8 Y! `! O* y! JA young woman with no pre-existing health issues has been confirmed as Calgary's first death linked to the H1N1 flu.0 M5 ]9 n# B4 O% x0 T
" u0 m; U( c0 g# qThe victim, who was not named, had been sick for about two weeks before she was admitted to a Calgary hospital on June 29, said Dr. Richard Musto, medical officer of health for Calgary and area, on Thursday.
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8 g1 y4 d7 [$ B) d2 b5 tTests confirmed she had swine flu on June 30, and she died Wednesday night, he said.
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"That's our assumption, that swine flu was a major contribution to her death," Musto told reporters.+ C* W9 S- Q& }& p
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"We're not exactly sure where she contracted it, but there's no travel history that's relevant."/ i/ F- G8 D& v( F
& ]0 r& u/ ]$ K8 O8 [0 T8 @5 J+ b5 OMusto did not name the hospital to which the woman was admitted but said that regular procedures were followed to "effectively protect other patients and staff."1 j6 C4 N0 d5 S r2 T7 X# h
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The death is the third in Alberta that's been linked to swine flu. Two women with pre-existing medical conditions — one in the Edmonton area and one in northern Alberta — were the other cases.
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% Z8 }0 f/ X, }2 oAlberta has registered more than 1,100 cases of swine flu since the influenza outbreak began in Mexico in March.
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"This is a global epidemic; most people will only have mild illness," he said./ ]& O r" l0 A
, K) l0 U/ w; d3 zThe majority of people who contract the virus — which comes with flu-like symptoms including fever, lethargy and coughing — recover, said Musto.
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"Generally, the complication that occurs is pneumonia and respiratory failure," he said.
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) Z9 J( \8 f8 A ANot connected to children's hospital cases
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6 M1 y& L, w H$ e m4 W2 r' L. AOfficials said the death is not connected to an outbreak this week at the Alberta Children's Hospital, when two patients and a staff member were diagnosed with the H1N1 flu. A unit on the hospital's third floor was isolated to prevent the flu's spread.
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9 C9 | s3 q: f3 L% `The patients were isolated in their private rooms on the weekend when they became symptomatic, and the staff member stayed at home upon becoming ill, said Musto.
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Ted Woynillowicz of Friends of Medicare in Calgary questioned why officials publicized the children's hospital while the facility where the woman was treated was not named.# u2 B/ _8 W7 I, p' e1 T8 G8 K
2 _7 {3 ~2 S; A5 q"I think there's kind of a lack of consistency. And I think it should be publicized if it affects the public in some way," he said.
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Every year 4,000 Canadians die from the flu and a high percentage of them have underlying conditions that play a large part in making them susceptible to serious consequences when they get the flu, he said. |
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但另一个方面，如艾滋病人也列入了流感高危人群的行列。究竟如何，还有待于专家们的努力工作。
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