07 January 2014 (03:17 UTC-07 Tango)/05 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/17 Dey 1392/07 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711
Alberta, Canada: Ten people dead, 300 people hospitalized, 1-thousand confirmed cases!
British Columbia, Canada: One person dead, 40 people hospitalized. 40% of infections are H1N1.
Saskatchewan, Canada: A 35 years old father of six died from H1N1.
Sapporo, Japan: National Institute of Infectious Diseases confirms that six people are sick with H1N1 that is resistant to Tamiflu and Rapiacta anti-viral treatments. They are recommending the anti-virals Relenza and Inavir to treat H1N1.
Sweden: Studies underway at Umeå University and Uppsala University show that Tamiflu residues that end up in sewage actually make influenza stronger, and they blame Japan: “Our results show that Tamiflu’s active metabolite, secreted by human urine, is not removed in traditional wastewater treatment plants. We have been able to trace Tamiflu in river water in Japan during the flu season 2007/ 08 as well as in Europe during the influenza pandemic 2009. Japan is the country that uses most antiviral drugs in the world during seasonal flu.”-Hanna Söderström
California, U.S.A.: The Santa Clara County Health Department confirmed the Golden State’s first H1N1 death. A 41 years old woman died back on 23 December 2013. It took this long for medical tests to confirm she had H1N1. But since then, two more Californians have died, a woman in Sacramento County and a woman in Orange County.
Colorado, U.S.A.: Department of Public Health and Environment reports 448 influenza hospitalizations, so far. It was revealed that an Eagle County woman died of H1N1 on 28 December 2013.
Michigan, U.S.A.: Three more people have died of H1N1.
Nevada, U.S.A.: Elko County Health Department says H1N1 is dominant flu.
North Carolina, U.S.A.: Department of Health and Human Services reports at least 13 influenza deaths, so far in the 2013/14 flu season.
Oregon, U.S.A.: Seven people now dead of H1N1. At least 180 people hospitalized: “It can become bad, very quickly! In the time I’ve worked in the last two weeks, every shift has had at least one or two positive cases. At least one or two each sift have been admitted to the ICU.”-Mo Daya, Oregon Health & Science University
Texas, U.S.A.: Denton County reports two more flu deaths. Dallas County reports eight deaths as of 04 January 2014. In the past week 60 people have been hospitalized in Dallas County, 23 of them pregnant women. Reports that at least 25 people have died in the Lone Star State. In Nacogdoches, a family has gone public, explaining that their 53 years old mentally handicapped brother got infected while in the local jail. His sometimes irrational behavior got him in arrested before. This time he got H1N1 in jail and died!
Washington, U.S.A.: EvergreenHealth Medical Center, in King County, reports that three people have died from H1N1 in the past two weeks (one report said it was four people who died).
Wisconsin, U.S.A.: About 400 people hospitalized. Health officials claim the H1N1 in their state is not as strong as it was in 2009.
The U.S. CDC reported as of 28 December 2013, 13 U.S. states have extremely “high” levels of flu like infections: Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah.