UPDATED: 60 Dead of Flu-related Complications, Almost 2,000 Hospitalized
The health department’s second weekly report on the flu outbreak more than doubles the number of reported deaths in the state.
UPDATED STORY The influenza outbreak of 2012-13 has now killed 60 Minnesotans and hospitalized 1,842, according to information released late yesterday by the Minnesota Department of Health. The department’s second weekly report on the flu outbreak more than doubles the number of reported deaths in the state; which totaled 27 last week on Jan. 13. The total number of deaths is now nearly as high as that of the swine flu outbreak of 2009-10, which killed 67 Minnesotans. The number of flu-related hospitalizations actually exceeds the total of 2009-10. Related posts: According to a Fox 9 news report, 88 percent of the deaths were patients age 65 or older, making up 53 of the 60 fatal cases this season. There were no deaths in the past week …
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Cassandra Morrison
1:13 pm on Monday, January 21, 2013
The problem is that too many have been scared away from getting vaccinated by scare stories on the internet (and elsewhere) that the flu vaccine will "turn people into zombies" and other such nonsense. Instead people are buying into old wives' tales about cutting an onion and leaving it about as it "kills flu germs". Some emails I have seen insist that it is just as effective against influenza as… more ›