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Kentucky case related to prison outbreak in McCreary Co.

The Kentucky Department for Public Health reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that the flu activity level in the state has increased to regional, the second highest level of flu activity. The activity levels for states are tracked weekly as part of the CDC’s national flu surveillance system.

We continued to detect cases of novel H1N1 over the summer at a reduced rate of transmission. As anticipated, we are now seeing an increase in cases of H1N1 around the state with the return of students to school,” said William Hacker, M.D., commissioner of DPH. “We want to remind Kentuckians to stay aware of new developments related to the flu and to focus on practicing good health habits.”

The CDC has told states to expect an increase in the number of cases of the H1N1 flu strain first identified in the spring, and which has since been declared a worldwide pandemic.

http://www.emaxhealth.com/2/90/33013/fl ... tucky.html

So if it is expected why didn't you do something about it?

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State Medical Reserve Corps here to help with swine flu, other medical emergencies



As more diagnosed cases of the H1N1 virus increase across Kentucky, nearly every local health department has some extra hands prepared to help.

Kentucky has some 3,400 members in the Medical Reserve Corps, a group of medical professionals and other volunteers who are trained to step up in a medical emergency.

"We are going to need a lot of people to help," with the mass immunizations that are in the works, said April Thomas, public health coordinator with the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department. "These volunteers are going to be very, very important."

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For more information about the state program go to www.khelps.chfs.ky.gov/VolunteerMobilizer/.

For Fayette County: www.lexingtonmrc.com/

For other information, call your local health department.

The Kentucky corps has the distinction of being the only one in the country to have been activated twice within the last year, said Rebecca Gillis, the state's branch manager for public health preparedness.

Volunteers staffed an emergency medical shelter in Louisville to handle some 1,500 evacuees when Hurricane Gustav blew through Louisiana in 2008, and they helped local health department staffs during last winter's ice storm.

http://www.kentucky.com/latest_news/story/907272.html

Ky. reports first H1N1 death

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as the first Kentucky death from the disease was announced Thursday at the Governor's Pandemic Influenza Summit.

A Fayette County resident has died of H1N1, or swine flu. The governor's office announced that a woman in her 50s with "significant underlying health conditions" was the state's first confirmed death.

http://www.wkyt.com/wymtnews/headlines/57038267.html



GOOD JOB KNOTT COUNTY!!! I wish every county cared this much about their children.

Murray State
Swine flu suspected on campus


As of Wednesday, five of Kentucky’s eight public universities have confirmed cases of the virus.
Because of the spreading threat of the novel strain of influenza A, Burgess said Murray State’s efforts have become necessary to ensure the safety of the Murray State community.
“We’ve supplied each building with hand sanitizers and Clorox wipes,” Burgess said. “We’ve also provided forehead thermometers that you stick to your forehead and it takes the temperature.”
He said the Housing office has provided desk workers in the residential colleges with antibacterial wipes to sanitize commonly touched items like elevator buttons, phones and the general front desk area.

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