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Lisa Schnirring of CIDRAP News provides us with a summary of today’s MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) which takes a look at 30 hospitalized H1N1 patients from California.
As always with a CIDRAP report, it is worth following the link to read it in its entirety.
CDC finds patterns in novel flu hospitalizations
Lisa Schnirring
Staff Writer
May 19, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – In a first early look at trends in patients who have been hospitalized with novel influenza H1N1 infections, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that all but one of a group of 30 patients presented with fever and that about two thirds of them had an underlying medical condition.
The CDC's review, based on California patients who were hospitalized from Apr 20 through May 17, appeared yesterday in an early online version of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Anne Schuchat, MD, interim deputy director CDC's science and public health program, said during a media briefing today that the majority of patients recovered without problems after short hospitalizations, though some had severe illness with prolonged complications and remain hospitalized.
