Ping...(Thanks DvdMom!)
Thank you. I've said the same.
Wait until the fall and winter when it mutates, people all over the world will be dropping like flys and stacked like cordwood. 1918 influenza redux.
Buffalo, NY:
Mother Speaks about Swine Flu Death
Posted By: Rachel Kingston Posted By: Claudine Ewing 1 min ago
http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=67886&catid=13
When Matthew Davis was feeling ill at home just days before died, he asked his mom, ‘what is wrong with me, am I going to die,” recalled Lucretia Belton.
Belton is the mother of Davis. The 15-year old boy was scheduled to graduate from eighth grade at Harvey Austin School #97 in Buffalo on Wednesday. Instead the family will be attending his wake at Amigone Funeral Home in Buffalo.
Davis, according to his mother was healthy. “There was nothing wrong with my baby, no cold, not even a sniff,” said Belton.
In an interview with 2 On Your Side’s Claudine Ewing, the grieving mother explained how fast her son became ill. It was one week from the day Matthew started feeling that he died.
Students, teachers and community members are mourning the teen’s death.
Flags there are at half staff and a sign in front of the school says — “Our hearts and prayers are with the family and loved ones of Matthew Davis.”
Over the weekend, a spokesman for the Erie County Health Department confirmed a death associated with swine flu.
Buffalo Teachers’ Federation President Phil Rumore said it’s his understanding that the 15-year-old’s health was further compromised by an underlying MRSA infection.
Belton says doctors told her as a result of the swine flu her son contracted MRSA and pneumonia.
“I’m not coping. I want my baby. can they give me my baby back. I’m a mess,” said Belton about the death of her son.
She wishes the school was closed when the teacher was diagnosed with swine flu. It is not known how Matthew Davis was infected. She has an older son who attends Riverside High School, but he was never ill, although district officials closed that school to deal with the swine flu in the building.
Buffalo Schools Superintendent Dr. James Williams says grief counselors are on hand today.
Only a small number of students are required to report to school to take final exams.
A second Buffalo student - who attends the Charles R. Drew Science Magnet School #59 Museum Campus, remains hospitalized with Swine Flu. The child, a female, is listed in critical condition in the Pediatric Intensive Care unit at Women and Children’s Hospital.
Please! Please!
I just got a pneumonia vaccine about 3 weeks ago. I normally don’t like taking things like that but my Dr said that since there is no vaccine for this that most people are dying from bacterial pneumonia from it and she thought it would be an extra little bit of protection from that.
State’s only swine flu death still a mystery (Massachusetts)
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/06/23/masss_only_swine_flu_death_still_a_mystery/
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:30 am Post subject:
Gentle giant in search for hospital bed (Australia)
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25681459-661,00.html
VICTORIA’S first swine-flu fatality remained critically ill at a country hospital for several hours because no intensive-care beds were available anywhere in the state, his family claim.
Anthony Splatt, 35, died on Saturday, two days after collapsing at his Colac home, becoming the second Australian to die from the flu strain.
MA:
Assawompset Elementary School closes early for the year due to flu
By Frank Mulligan
GateHouse News Service
Posted Jun 23, 2009 @ 11:38 AM
http://www.tauntongazette.com/education/x1662363802/Assawompset-Elementary-School-closes-early-for-the-year-due-to-flu
LAKEVILLE — Assawompset Elementary School has closed for the school year due to a flu outbreak.
School officials received a state waiver on school-hour requirements after making the decision Monday to close the school in the face of widespread absences believed due to H1N1 flu.
Principal Laurie Hunter said 400 of the school’s 600 students were absent Monday, prompting the decision.
She said many of the absences were precautionary on the part of parents, but that 100 students had reported flu-like symptoms since last Thursday.
She said the state wasn’t confirming the H1N1 flu at this point, but that it was clear there was widespread illness and that closing was the best option.
School would have normally concluded on Wednesday, June 24.
Heat infections can happen even in seasonal flu:
http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/60/3/887
“Heart disease is a recognised complication of Influenza.
We report a unique case in which myopericarditis and collapse due to acute influenza A infection was associated with pericardial effusion and tamponade. In addition, the patient had myositis and pleurisy. Emergency pericardiocentesis and inotropic drugs were needed”...
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/flu-shots/HB00086
..”If you have heart disease, flu season can be a dangerous time. Death from influenza (flu) is more common among people with heart disease than among people with any other chronic condition”...
“”But ... I would argue that the 30-year-old with mild asthma — how big of an underlying illness is that compared to again the 80-year-old person with bad lung disease from smoking who’s got heart disease?...””
I know I’ve been on the flu ping list for sometime even though I don’t why, yet it is getting distressingly more difficult to believe that a non-existent pandemic can be talked into existence and energized by the exercise.
Have we lost all sense of proportion? Have we been inured to the point we no longer think for ourselves — we can’t count past 100 or 1000 without help?
If I’m supposed to be convinced that an 80 year old smoker with a history of lung disease is suddenly now less likely to be at risk of succumbing to the flu than an otherwise presumed healthy 30 year old, couldn’t they at least recognize that their 80 year old poster boy should be congratulated for having escaped their clutches this long?