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Influenza : Asian strain – 1957 : Confirmed cases ; Confirmed and suspect outbreaks [map, August 16, 1957];Proposed voluntary vaccine allocation system;
Corporate Authors:
Communicable Disease Center (U.S.). Influenza Surveillance Unit.
Description:
"Included in this Report is a daily record of patients seen with influenza-like illnesses at Charity Hospital, in New Orleans. It is hoped that eventually, by comparison with previous years; figures, some estimation of current morbidity due to influenza may be obtained. Additional enumerations from other areas will be added as they become available. Evidence of infection with Asian strain has been reported from Oregon, with a camp outbreak of febrile respiratory disease also noted in the same area. An Oregon Boy Scout, who attended the Jamboree at Valley Forge, yielded this strain, also. Asian strain influenza virus has been isolated from cases in an upstate New York labor camp and from foreign exchange students in New York city. One death has occurred in this later group. Probably the first report this season of influenza virus isolated from a fatal case of complicating staphylococcal pneumonia has come from California. Evidence of influenza infection due to an A-prime virus has been obtained from a sporadic case in New Orleans, Louisiana. Seed virus and fluid antigen of an egg-animal-line of influenza virus has been distributed by the Influenza Virus Center at Montgomery, Alabama. It is expected that hemagglutination-inhibition tests will be facilitated by this material. Asian strain virus has been isolated from influenza patients in Colombia, South America. A/Denver/57 related strains have been implicated in several influenza cases which occurred in Saskatchewan, Canada. As has been frequently observed recently, Asian strain influenza virus is widely "seeded" over the country. The mildness of the illness, coupled with the infrequency of diagnostic specimens, probably has resulted in only a very small percentage of cases being identified. What holds the virus in abeyance at this season is far from clear." - p. 2
Content Notes:
"August 16, 1957."

Includes map: Influenza : Asian strain – 1957 : Confirmed cases ; Confirmed and suspect outbreaks

"Information contained in this report is a summary of data reported to CDC by State Health Departments, Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers, collaborating influenza diagnostic laboratories, and other pertinent sources. Much if it is preliminary in nature and is primarily in nature and is primarily intended for those involved in influenza control activities. It is understood that the contents of these report will not be released to the press, except by the Office of the Surgeon General, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. State Health Officers, of course, will judge the advisability of releasing any information from their own state." - cover


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Disease Outbreaks Influenza, Human/epidemiology Influenza, Human/mortality Influenza A Virus Influenza A Virus, H2N2 Subtype Influenza Vaccines/adverse Effects Influenza Vaccines/supply & Distribution Pneumonia
Series:
CDC influenza report ; no. 12
Document Type:
Newsletter
Place as Subject:
United States
Location:
North America
Collection(s):
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209/cdc_209_DS1.pdf
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