Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

31-year-old woman dies of H1N1 in Las Vegas

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A 31-year-old woman with no underlying medical conditions has died after catching the H1N1 flu, the Southern Nevada Health District reported today.

That brings to 12 the number of people in Clark County who have died of the H1N1 flu virus, also known as the swine flu.

Another person died in June of the H1N1 flu in a Las Vegas hospital, but the woman had been visiting from upstate New York, health officials said.

For the week ending Oct. 17, there have been 361 cases of laboratory confirmed H1N1 flu, the health district reported.

The health district has received both FluMist and injectable H1N1 flu vaccines.

Starting Wednesday, a FluMist Express line will be available at the health district's mobile command center at 625 Shadow Lane, between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. The express line will offer the inhaled 2009 H1N1 flu vaccine to people in the following priority groups: health care workers and emergency medical technicians with direct patient contact, children between the ages of 2 and 4 years old, caretakers and parents of children younger than 6 months old.

As of Saturday, the health district had received 49,000 doses of H1N1 influenza vaccine. By Monday the health district had administered 7,184 doses of the vaccine.

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