| The Mexican Swine Flu Epidemic | |
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| Kerri P. | May 8 2009, 08:39 PM Post #211 |
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http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/5113169/ N.C. now has nine confirmed cases of 'swine flu' Posted: Today at 4:44 p.m. Raleigh, N.C. — North Carolina public health officials said Friday there have been nine confirmed cases of the so-called swine flu in the state. The number is up two from Tuesday. Five of the cases are in Craven County, two are in Onslow County and two are in Carteret County, officials said. There are no probable cases under investigation, and a DHHS representative said tests on a suspected case in Wake County returned negative results. As of Friday, 1,639 cases of the novel H1N1 influenza virus has shown up in 43 states and caused two deaths in Texas, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The latest North Carolina cases were not included in those numbers. snip... |
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| Kerri P. | May 9 2009, 08:23 PM Post #212 |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30471035 Costa Rica reports first swine flu death Japan, Norway, Australia also confirm new cases updated 5:43 p.m. ET, Sat., May 9, 2009 Costa Rica reported the death of a 53-year-old man with swine flu Saturday, the first fatality from the epidemic outside of North America, while Japanese authorities scrambled to limit contacts with their first confirmed cases. Like other deaths outside Mexico, the Costa Rican man suffered from complicating illnesses, including diabetes and chronic lung disease. The United States has reported the deaths of a toddler with a heart defect and a woman with rheumatoid arthritis. Canadian officials say tests show that a woman who died last month had the disease. snip... |
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| Kerri P. | May 10 2009, 10:46 AM Post #213 |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30398682 3rd U.S. flu death reported in Wash. state Man in his 30s had underlying conditions, health officials say updated 11:16 p.m. ET, Sat., May 9, 2009 A man in his 30s is the third person in the United States to die from complications of swine flu, Washington state health officials said Saturday. The state Department of Health said in a news release that a Snohomish County man in his 30s with underlying heart conditions died last week with what appears to be complications of swine-origin influenza. The man was not identified. snip... Edited by Kerri P., May 10 2009, 10:46 AM.
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| Kerri P. | May 10 2009, 10:48 AM Post #214 |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30666111 Mexicans blame industrial hog farms for flu But health officials have found no link to recent flu outbreak updated 6:23 a.m. ET, Sun., May 10, 2009 LA GLORIA, Mexico - For years, farmers in the communities that dot this arid valley complained about the effects of the industrial pig farms that had multiplied near their fields. The overpowering stench gave them headaches and drove them from their homes. Packs of wild dogs feasted on discarded pig carcasses and occasionally turned on their children and pets. There were fears that vast lagoons of excrement from more than 1 million hogs might seep into their groundwater. Health officials have found no connection between the pig farms, owned and operated by Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, and the flu virus that paralyzed Mexico for much of the past two weeks. But the crisis, which appears to be abating, has inflamed tensions between the world's largest hog producer and the poor neighboring communities here that have long warned that the farms are a danger to their health. snip.... Edited by Kerri P., May 10 2009, 10:49 AM.
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| sceptical | May 14 2009, 10:40 PM Post #215 |
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While the media hysteria has died down, the H1N1 flu continues to spread. There are over 4,200 confirmed U.S. cases and probably 10 times that many infections that have not been confirmed. The following map is illustrative: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/update.htm U.S. Human Cases of H1N1 Flu Infection (As of May 14, 2009, 11:00 AM ET) States* Confirmed and Probable Cases Deaths Alabama 41 Arkansas 1 Arizona 431 California 473 Colorado 47 Connecticut 38 Delaware 58 Florida 65 Georgia 36 Hawaii 10 Idaho 5 Illinois 620 Indiana 70 Iowa 58 Kansas 28 Kentucky** 13 Louisiana 45 Maine 13 Maryland 28 Massachusetts 109 Michigan 141 Minnesota 34 Missouri 20 Montana 5 Nebraska 23 Nevada 25 New Hampshire 18 New Jersey 12 New Mexico 51 New York 224 North Carolina 12 North Dakota 1 Ohio 12 Oklahoma 22 Oregon 94 Pennsylvania 50 Rhode Island 8 South Carolina 34 South Dakota 5 Tennessee 63 Texas 439 2 Utah 80 Vermont 1 Virginia 20 Washington 195 1 Washington, D.C. 10 Wisconsin 510 TOTAL*(47) 4,298 cases 3 deaths *includes the District of Columbia **one case is resident of KY but currently hospitalized in GA. This table will be updated daily Monday-Friday at around 11 AM ET. There have been only 3 deaths so far, which is a good sign that the new H1N1 is usually not fatal. However, it appears to be highly contagious. All flu viruses mutate, and what happens with H1N1 later this year will determine whether we have a pandemic with high casualties. A vaccine is in preparation for that eventuality. Stay tuned. Edited by sceptical, May 14 2009, 10:41 PM.
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| Baldo | May 14 2009, 10:54 PM Post #216 |
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Interesting at the bottom of the screen. Clearly the Pork Producers are advertising so as to disassociate the swine flu from eating pork.!
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| LTC8K6 | May 14 2009, 11:11 PM Post #217 |
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Assistant to The Devil Himself
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May 14, 2009, 5:48 pm Queens Educator Critically Ill With Swine Flu; 3 Schools Closed By Anemona Hartocollis AND Javier C. Hernandez Updated, 9:29 p.m. | In the first serious case of swine flu in New York City, an assistant principal of a Queens middle school has been hospitalized and is on a ventilator, officials announced Thursday. The city closed that school, and two others with large clusters of flu-like symptoms. All three schools are to remain closed for about a week. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/queens-educator-critically-ill-with-swine-flu/?hp |
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| foxglove | May 15 2009, 08:11 AM Post #218 |
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"Mexicans blame industrial hog farms for flu" Industrial animal farms should be investigated, IMO, in regard to the safety of food if not for the flu. Matthew Scully in his book, "Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy" points out that Mad Cow Disease occured because cows were fed ground up cow meat which, of course, is contrary to nature as cows are herbivores. Not only are the factory farms often brutal for the animals but could very well be responsible for less than safe food. Any connection to the swine flu? I don't know enough about that but would be interested in finding out more. http://www.matthewscully.com/reviews.htm |
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| sceptical | May 21 2009, 04:36 PM Post #219 |
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Some Older People May Be Immune to Swine Flu Past Exposure to Other Variants of H1N1 May Be Protective, CDC Says By TODD NEALE MedPage Today May 21, 2009— http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=7647943 Older adults might have some pre-existing immunity to H1N1 swine flu, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lab tests showed that some adults, particularly those older than 60, had antibodies against the new strain, but Dr. Anne Schuchat of the CDC cautioned against reading too much into the finding. "We don't know yet what that will mean in terms of actual immunity or clinical protection," she said on a conference call with reporters. As the worldwide H1N1 flu outbreak progresses, evidence continues to point to a disproportionate number of infections in school-age children and younger adults. Of the swine flu cases reported to the CDC, 64 percent are in 5- to 24-year-olds and just 1 percent are in individuals older than 65. That's an unusual pattern compared with seasonal influenza, which primarily affects the very young or old. This has led to speculation that older individuals have at least some degree of pre-existing immunity to swine flu, possibly from years of immunization with seasonal flu vaccines, which contain different H1N1 viruses than the current outbreak strain, or previous infection. "The study we're reporting today provides a little clue that's consistent with that clinical observation," Schuchat said. Dr. Donald Henderson, an infectious disease expert at the University of Pittsburgh, called the observation of comparatively few swine flu cases among older adults "at least provisionally reassuring." The H1N1 virus responsible for the 1918 flu pandemic continued to circulate in the population until 1957, when an H2N2 virus displaced it, he said. "Thus, the first experience with influenza for most individuals born between 1918 and 1957 would have been with H1N1," he said. Those people are now between 52 and 91 years old. If that previous exposure provided residual protection against the new swine flu virus, as observations seem to support, "there may well be some degree of protection sufficient, at least, to prevent serious illness in a significant proportion" of the population, he said. Swine Flu: Questions Persist About Novel Strain Schuchat noted, however, that genetic testing has found that the new H1N1 virus is not a close relative to any of the other H1N1 viruses that have circulated among people. Other flu experts speculated that older patients might start getting infected in higher numbers as the outbreak progresses. With seasonal influenza, children are the first to become infected, with infections picking up in older adults later in the season. Dr. Marvin Bittner of Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, said that phenomenon could be what's happening with the current outbreak. "Possibly, it is just a matter of time before they see this influenza in older people," he said. CDC researchers analyzed 359 stored blood samples from individuals ranging in age from 6 months to 64 years before and after vaccination during the four flu seasons since 2005-2006. The samples were collected during U.S. and European vaccine studies. The results indicated that both before and after vaccination, children up to 9 years old had no level of protection against the new virus. On the other hand, up to 9 percent of adults ages 18 to 64 and 33 percent of those older than 60 had evidence of protection against the new virus before receiving a seasonal flu shot. Schuchat said the findings should be "taken with caution" because of the relatively small number of blood samples and the use of an unconventional test of immune response to flu. The tests also confirmed that seasonal flu vaccine is likely to have "little or no immune benefit" in protecting against the new virus, as many researchers had suspected. |
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| Kerri P. | May 21 2009, 04:42 PM Post #220 |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30865696 U.S. swine flu deaths hit double digits Cases confirmed in Tokyo as new virus continues to spread around globe updated 1 hour, 23 minutes ago SALT LAKE CITY - Swine flu forced Christina Huitron to make a choice no mother should ever have to make. On Wednesday she told doctors to take her 21-year-old son off life support, making Marcos Sanchez the nation’s 10th fatality associated with the newly discovered virus that continues to spread across the globe. “I knew he was suffering,” Christina Huitron told KSL-TV. “I don’t know how he was feeling, but I just knew I had to do it because he was passing away slowly anyways, and I didn’t want him to suffer anymore.” snip... Edited by Kerri P., May 21 2009, 04:50 PM.
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| brittany | May 21 2009, 04:50 PM Post #221 |
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He died. |
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| Kerri P. | May 24 2009, 09:18 PM Post #222 |
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http://www.wral.com/news/science/story/5208711/ NY woman in 50s becomes US' 11th swine flu death Posted: 48 minutes ago NEW YORK — A woman died over the weekend of swine flu, becoming the city's second victim and the nation's 11th. The woman, who was in her 50s, had other health conditions, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene spokeswoman Jessica Scaperotti said. No other information on her case was disclosed Sunday. Assistant public school principal Mitchell Wiener, who died May 17, was the city's first death from the virus. The 55-year-old had been sick for several days. There were 280 confirmed cases of swine flu in the city and 94 hospitalizations as of Sunday, Scaperotti said. The number of confirmed cases probably doesn't fully reflect the spread of the virus, given that health officials aren't testing everyone for the H1N1 strain. "It's most likely that if you're sick with the flu, that you have the H1N1 virus," Scaperotti said. Those people with chronic health conditions such as diabetes and compromised immune systems who are suffering from flu-like symptoms should seek medical advice, Scaperotti said. Only those with more serious symptoms, such as shortness of breath, should go to emergency rooms, she said. The health department recommended that physicians prescribe anti-flu drugs such as Tamiflu over the phone to patients with mild flu symptoms who have other health conditions snip... |
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| Kerri P. | May 26 2009, 08:27 PM Post #223 |
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http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5218549/ Official: Most N.C. swine flu cases will go unreported Posted: Today at 5:31 p.m. Updated: Today at 7:44 p.m. Raleigh, N.C. — As the H1N1 virus continues to spread across North Carolina, the state's public health director said Tuesday that the number of confirmed cases of swine flu likely is much greater than the 14 that have been reported. "They will definitely go unreported," Dr. Jeffrey Engel said. "We feel that our current (testing) method probably catches about one in 10 to one in 20 that are really happening here." The first confirmed cases in the Triangle were reported over the weekend. A UNC Health Care worker and a Durham resident contracted the disease, and both were isolated to limit any spread of the disease. Health officials said the two cases are unrelated, although both people had recently traveled to New York City, which has experienced the largest U.S. outbreak of the disease. More than 6,500 cases of H1N1 have shown up in 48 states, and 11 people in the U.S. have died from the disease, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. snip... |
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| chatham | May 26 2009, 08:39 PM Post #224 |
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The flu that we all get in the winter affects many many more people and kills a larger number of people. Something that is rarely reported. I believe that because of the unknown consequences of this swine flu the governments were being too cautious in their opinions about how lethal this flu was going to be. They seemed to panic before the public did. Although there may be a very serious outbreak of some kind of flu in the near future similar in scope to the 1918 pandemic, this particular flu appears not to be the one scientists are worried about. When the time comes for a killer flu to become a serious pandemic, everyone will know about it sooner than later. |
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| Baldo | May 28 2009, 12:10 AM Post #225 |
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![]() By way of the Durham Red Neck! LOL! |
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