Posted on 05/01/2009 12:50:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-swine-flu-florida-050109,0,6415743.story
FLORIDA GOVERNOR TO HOLD PRESS CONF. AT 10;15 TO GIVE UPDATE ON SWINE FLU INFECTIONS
flu virus ping
Freeper AdmSmith posted this link with very interesting swine flu reading info
Most of those in Mexico are dying of Pneumonia which is what happens after the Influenza wrecks their lungs. From http://www.singtomeohmuse.com/viewtopic.php?t=3232&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=705
Swine Flu: Ill woman is in ICU in West GA hospital
http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=10279275
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.
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.
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 reported in Mexico.
WHO Confirms Sustained Swine H1N1 Transmision in Humans
Phase 6 should be announced within the next few days.
Recombinomics Commentary 23:53 - excerpts
April 29, 2009 - Dr. Henry Niman
“The pandemic is quite predictable, as detailed in the video (below), has much in common with the 1918 outbreak, including the start in the late spring as a mild infection, the targeting of previously healthy adults, and the origin as swine H1N1. Over the summer the swine H1N1 will proliferate in the southern hemisphere and recombine with H1N1 seasonal flu, leading to a much more virulent H1N1 in the fall. Active surveillance and the developing a vaccine that targets the predicted product is critical. Tamiflu resistance will almost certainly develop in swine H1N1, leading to a heavy reliance on a well matched vaccine.
Phase 6 should be announced within the next few days.
It is time for serious vaccine targeting of emerging sequences.”
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/04290901/H1N1_Pandemic_5.html
Video:
http://www.wpxi.com/video/19313969/index.html
Google map to track Flu Hot Spots
NZ suspected swine flu cases rise to 136
May 1, 2009 - 1:42PM
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/nz-suspected-swine-flu-cases-rise-to-136-20090501-aprh.html
The number of suspected cases of swine flu in New Zealand rose to 136 on Friday, the New Zealand government said.
The figure was up 25 from the previous day, while the three confirmed and 13 probable cases of the potentially deadly virus were unchanged from Thursday, New Zealand Health Minister Tony Ryall told a press conference.
New Zealand became one of the first countries outside North America to detect likely swine flu cases after a school group returned from a trip to Mexico last Saturday.
Twelve of the 16 confirmed and probable swine flu cases were members of the high school group which had been on a three-week Spanish language tour in Mexico.
Officials confirmed on Friday that a passenger who arrived from North America on April 19 had tested positive for influenza A, which is linked to swine flu. He is one of the 13 probable cases.
“We are involved today in an extensive contact-tracing exercise with his place of work,” said Auckland’s top medical official, Julia Peters.
Although the traveller arrived on the 19th, he did not start showing flu symptoms until the 22nd and did not visit his doctor until April 28, when he was put into quarantine with his family.
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I agree. I also was very worried because of the timing and the strain. The initial news media made it look like it had a high mortality rate as well.
What I am not so comfortable with is if it survives for the next 3 or 4 months though.
If it does,then we may be in a whole new ball game as it will have had time to mutate again. That is what happened in 1912 if i remember my history correctly.
ICU or isolated?
She may just be isolated as a carrier. ICU indicates that she is near death.
The "Reichstag Flu."
It’s the same here in Britain WoofDog123, constant bombardment from the media.
The article just says (The woman is in the ICU at West GA Medical in LaGrange, GA showing modest signs and considered seriously ill )
I read that the people in Mexico had recently suffered a bout of pneumonia and that may have weakened their lungs. so when they contracted this they were more susceptible to death.
That certainly sounds feasible Munz, there’s certainly a different variable in the Mexican cases, presuming they died of this same strain of flu.
I doubt we will be looking at something to the effect of the black death, but we will be seeing a lot of problems and maybe even a break down of society. (as if it hasn’t been breaking down already)
"Pandemic" is a matter of morbidity rate, not mortality rate.
Take a laugh break from the Flu and the White Lies House of 0b0z0 and go to this great thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240628/posts
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