Seeking patient zero in San Diego's hepatitis A outbreak. As San Diego’s hepatitis A outbreak has continued to grow, so too has a fascination about the identity and importance of “patient zero,” the first person believed to be infected in a surge of illness that has now killed 19 people. Source 5f.
Flu kills 33 more people, including a 1-year-old, in San Diego. The county health department added 33 people, one of them a young child, to the flu-related death toll Wednesday as the number of cases and amount of emergency room activity continued to spike throughout the region. Source 3o.