[This is an example of what we are going to have to look for in our posts here. Hat-tip Monotreme, from PFI, with a comment: Notice that in the case above the woman was ambulatory for 8 days, with symptoms, before she went to the hospital. She is now in an ICU. She is 30 years old.
This is the same pattern as Mexico.]
Thursday, the head of Georgia's Division of Public Health says the CDC has confirmed the first case in the state, a 30-year-old woman from Kentucky who was hospitalized in the town of LaGrange while visiting west Georgia.
She'd been in Cancun, Mexico, earlier this month.
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The woman is in the ICU at West GA Medical in LaGrange, GA showing modest signs and considered seriously ill.
Timeline:
She traveled from Kentucky to Georgia with her 5-year-old daughter by way of car.
Prior to her trip to Georgia she took a leisure trip to Cancun, Mexico with a travel companion from April 17- April 21.
She began to fell ill on April 18th, but she thought it was due to the sun.
April 23: She arrived in Atlanta, GA by way of car.
April 24: She went shopping in Atlanta, GA.
April 25: She went to a wedding rehearsal dinner in LaGrange, GA.
April 26: She attended a wedding and later that day went to the ER voluntarily with family to West Georgia Medical in LaGrange, GA. She was immediately isolated. Officials performed a rapid specimen test , which the CDC received on April 28.
The family and those in her close circle were given anti-viral medications as a precaution.
The CDC and the Georgia Division of Public Health are working together to notify those that were in contact with her at the wedding.
April 30: Confirmed 30 year-old woman who has swine flu is from Warren County, Kentucky.
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