Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

U.S. swine flu cases pass 1 million

|
|
 
  
Published: June 27, 2009 at 11:43 AM

NEW YORK, June 27 (UPI) -- The H1N1 virus has infected more than 1 million people in the United States, hospitalized an estimated 3,000 and killed 127, a top health official said.

The total number of those infected is "just a ballpark figure," said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of respiratory diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We know we're not tracking every single one of them."

Thousands more are infected each week, even as the traditional flu season winds down, Schuchat told The New York Times in a story published Saturday.

Recent outbreaks of the H1N1 flu has been reported in many areas of the country, including 34 summer camps in 16 states, the Times reported.

Of those hospitalized, the average age is 19, with the median age for death 37, Schuchat said. Nearly 75 percent of the 127 patients who died had an underlying condition such as morbid obesity, pregnancy, asthma, diabetes or immune problems.

Those victims tended "to be relatively young, and I don't think that they were thinking of themselves as ready to die," Schuchat told the Times.

Topics: Anne Schuchat, H1N1
Recommended Stories
© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
The Tibetan Moniam Festival in China Super Bowl XLVI ticker tape victory parade The making of the Oscars
The Chicago Auto Show The Most Desirable Women of 2012 Tu Bishvat Migron settlement
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 25
Meryl Streep and Colin Firth attend the "BAFTA" ceremony in London
View Caption
fark
Valentine's Day music to avoid: five music videos that suck the fun out of sex
Vladimir Putin ridiculed for telling his countrymen to stop being such limp d**ks and get it on...
Coke and Pepsi may be arming for another cola war. I remember the first cola war, son. I saw things...
McDonald's pushing farmers for a kinder McRib. Nope, you read that right
Nancy Grace screeches the appropriate question, "Who pushed Whitney Houston under water?"
Photoshop theme: Valentine's Day gifts, it's the thought that counts