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加拿大:教授之死警示流感疫苗接种很重要

已有 3052 次阅读 2013-2-18 06:01 |个人分类:人物纪事|系统分类:海外观察| color, WARNING, death, Family, ppa

      加拿大卡尔加里大学教授Margo Husby-Scheelar,因感染H1N1流感病毒于星期三去世,其子称愿将母亲的不幸公之于世,以期不再有更多的人遭受类似的损失。请看CBC详细报道。

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2013/02/17/calgary-h1n1-death-warning.html

 

Calgary professor's H1N1 death prompts warning from family

 

A Calgary family is warning people to take the flu seriously after their mother died this week from H1N1 flu virus.

Margo Husby-Scheelar was a popular professor in the University of Calgary’s department of communication and culture.

The 64-year-old was sick for a week before she was admitted to hospital and diagnosed with H1N1. After spending nearly a month in intensive care, she died on Wednesday, said her son Greg Scheelar.

Scheelar said he wants to share her story to make sure no one else suffers a similar loss.

"She didn't do something and it cost her. So having other people learning from the mistake that she made would be totally in character for her," Scheelar said.

Alberta Health Services officials said they cannot comment on Husby-Scheelar’s death, but confirmed they are seeing three strains of the flu this year, including H1N1.

H1N1 is the same strain of flu that caused a pandemic in 2009.

“And since that time this particular H1N1 strain has now become one of our seasonal influenza strains we expect to see every year,” said Dr. Judy MacDonald, the province’s medical officer of health for the Calgary zone.

“And there’s still cases of it and sometimes it can be very serious. But it’s not like it was when it first arrived.”

Since the flu season began at the end of August there have been 260 lab-confirmed cases of the flu in Calgary, including 15 people with H1N1, officials said.

AHS recommends all Albertans older than six months get a yearly flu shot.

"It's not too late if you haven't had your influenza vaccine. It is still available at our public health clinics and some physicians and pharmacies," MacDonald said.

Greg Scheelar said his mother was just as great a mom as she was a teacher.

"A lot of her personality as a mom carried into what she did as an instructor. And I think vice-versa as well,” he said.



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