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Influenza Outbreak? |
By
Dr. Lawrence Broxmeyer |
| The flu season is getting worse, the CDC just reported, something which
headlines have been confirming for several weeks. On January 2, 2015 NBC Bay Area ran a story entitled The Nation is in Flu Epidemic but California is Doing OK. But by December 1st 2016 The Mercury News was reporting on California reports first flu death of 2016-17 flu season. For privacy reasons, California’s State Public Health Department routinely does not release any other identifying information about victims, including gender, age, race, place of residence, or their date of death. But one of the State’s five flu outbreaks occurred in Santa Clara County in October of that year. The number of people who died in Santa Clara County during the current flu season has increased by two to 10, the most of any Bay Area county, public health officials reported. The two newest victims suffered from the H1N1 flu virus but also had "underlying medical conditions" that might be considered as factors in their deaths, spokeswoman Amy Cornell of the Santa Clara county public health department confirmed. One of these possible “underlying medical conditions” has been on the rise in Santa Clara for some time, and, by 2006, that county had the highest number of new TB cases in California more than most US States. At the same time, the immigrant share in Santa Clara County, mostly from countries where TB is endemic was at its highest point since 1870. Today, Santa Clara County only reports the third highest Tuberculosis (TB) case rate in California but still has more cases than most states in the US. California itself contributes a higher tubercular case-rate than most states in the Union. But the fact is that today much of California shares in increased immigration, and a couple of weeks ago this year’s influenza outbreak shot up to the point where the state has confirmed 45 flu-related deaths in adults under age 65 and is investigating another 50 deaths that were “probably” caused by the flu. Two of those deaths, including one in San Mateo County approximately a 60 minute drive from Santa Clara were children. At least 17 under-65 adults have died from the flu in the Bay Area. Once again, the severity of this epidemic is blamed on the re-emergence of the influenza strain Type A, a major subtype of which is H1N1, informally known as the swine flu. Once again we are told to wash and sanitize our hands and take our flu shots, and once again the search for a possible underlying cause to such flu epidemics is swept under the rug…………….. Read the rest of this extraordinary story... Influenza And The Tuberculosis Connection - Part 1 - PDF Influenza And The Tuberculosis Connection - Part 2 - PDF |
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