Alberta Registers H1N1 Death, Infection Rates Higher Than National Average
November 25, 2009 6:30 p.m. EST
Edmonton, Alberta (AHN) - Alberta has registered a death and infection rate for the Influenza A (H1N1) higher than the national average. Latest statistics said 47 Alberta residents have died of swine flu, while there are 219 H1N1 fatalities across the country.
It translates into an H1N1 death rate of 11.39 per one million residents in Alberta, which is almost double the national average of 6.49 per one million Canadians.
From April to date, more than 1,000 Albertans have been hospitalized for H1N1 infection, which is equivalent to 242 confinements per one million residents. The national swine flu hospitalization rate is 161 for every one million Canadians.
Alberta Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Andre Corriveau said there are many factors why the province's swine flu death and infection rates are higher compared to other Canadians provinces. One explanation is that Alberta has a good reporting system in place that it why it could pick up almost all incidents of H1N1 infection and deaths in the province.
Like a number of other Canadian provinces, Alberta allowed all residents to receive H1N1 vaccine beginning Monday after the province received 500,000 doses of the shots. With regular shipments of the vaccine, the province said it could inoculate daily 50,000 people against the swine flu virus.
Meanwhile, Health Canada said that except for an early November batch, there is no large number of Canadians who reported adverse side affects after being immunized with the adjuvanted vaccine against H1N1. Only six Canadians have severe allergic reaction to the swine flu vaccine delivered in a batch of 172,000 doses on the first week of November.
The suffered respiratory distress, swelling of the lips, eyelids, throat or tongue, and low blood pressure. But all six have fully recovered.
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