Posted on 04/24/2009 5:21:03 PM PDT by Lady GOP
If anyone has any details on these cases including area, please post.
More information here: Swine flu cases up to 7; officials expand probe 4-23-09
Forced vaccinations???
24 April 2009 -- The United States Government has reported seven confirmed human cases of Swine Influenza A/H1N1 in the USA (five in California and two in Texas) and nine suspect cases. All seven confirmed cases had mild Influenza-Like Illness (ILI), with only one requiring brief hospitalization. No deaths have been reported.
The Government of Mexico has reported three separate events. In the Federal District of Mexico, surveillance began picking up cases of ILI starting 18 March. The number of cases has risen steadily through April and as of 23 April there are now more than 854 cases of pneumonia from the capital. Of those, 59 have died. In San Luis Potosi, in central Mexico, 24 cases of ILI, with three deaths, have been reported. And from Mexicali, near the border with the United States, four cases of ILI, with no deaths, have been reported.
Of the Mexican cases, 18 have been laboratory confirmed in Canada as Swine Influenza A/H1N1, while 12 of those are genetically identical to the Swine Influenza A/H1N1 viruses from California.
The majority of these cases have occurred in otherwise healthy young adults. Influenza normally affects the very young and the very old, but these age groups have not been heavily affected in Mexico.
Because there are human cases associated with an animal influenza virus, and because of the geographical spread of multiple community outbreaks, plus the somewhat unusual age groups affected, these events are of high concern.
The Swine Influenza A/H1N1 viruses characterized in this outbreak have not been previously detected in pigs or humans. The viruses so far characterized have been sensitive to oseltamivir, but resistant to both amantadine and rimantadine.
The World Health Organization has been in constant contact with the health authorities in the United States, Mexico and Canada in order to better understand the risk which these ILI events pose. WHO (and PAHO) is sending missions of experts to Mexico to work with health authorities there. It is helping its Member States to increase field epidemiology activities, laboratory diagnosis and clinical management. Moreover, WHO's partners in the Global Alert and Response Network have been alerted and are ready to assist as requested by the Member States.
WHO acknowledges the United States and Mexico for their proactive reporting and their collaboration with WHO and will continue to work with Member States to further characterize the outbreak.
Health officials have diagnosed a unique type of swine flu in two California children, but it’s unclear whether many people will be susceptible to the infection. The two children were diagnosed last week. One was a 10-year-old boy in San Diego County, and the other a 9-year-old girl in neighboring Imperial County. Both recovered. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alerted doctors Tuesday, but said there’s no reason for the public to take unusual measures. The virus is resistant to two common antiviral medications, and health officials think the seasonal flu vaccine may not protect against it.)
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?glide=EP-20090421-21366-USA&cat=dis&lang=eng
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What are the symptoms anyway? Fever, cough, what?
Our DIL is a nurse practitioner in Virginia and hadn’t heard of this until I mentioned it to her 30 minutes ago. She looked it up on WebMD and tried to find the symptoms. Nowhere were the symptoms listed. It seems that if you got a flu shot you’ll have some protection.
She feels that the typical symptoms are that of the flu...fever, aches, cough, etc. Only by testing can it be confirmed.
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Fever cough flu like symtpoms and sometimes nausea and diarrhea
Just thinking to myself...if we are responsible for the guns going into Mexico then they are responsible for the flu right? I demand they stop all germs from crossing the border into the USA!
I think it said they had no intention of closing the border. Too late anyway. Wondering how long it will take to appear clear across the globe with International travel etc.
This is the H1N1, a variant of it caused the Spanish Flu.
bttt
Hope they get this one into this year’s flu vaccine.
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