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Two Cases of Swine Flu in Kansas
KWCH ^ | April 25, 2009 | By Chris Durden

Posted on 04/25/2009 1:49:56 PM PDT by notes2005

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment confirms two cases of swine flu in Kansas.

A news conference is scheduled for 4:15 Saturday afternoon at the Curtis State Office Building in Topeka.

(Excerpt) Read more at kwch.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: flu; influenza; kansas; mexicanflu; mexico; swine; swineflu
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To: sissyjane
Do the paper masks keep viruses out?

They do a fair job of keeping the airborne droplets of mucus and saliva out.

61 posted on 04/25/2009 2:52:39 PM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: notes2005; All
This from Bloomberg.com...

The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn’t confirm if Solis had swine flu or not.

62 posted on 04/25/2009 2:54:05 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81
Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported.

In other news, President Barack Obama cancelled an afternoon meeting with the Young Communists League, saying that he was "coming down with something" and didn't want "the future leaders of our nation" exposed to it.

63 posted on 04/25/2009 2:59:21 PM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: notes2005; All

I am a physician. I am prescribing Tamiflu 75 mg 10 pills just to have in the house for my kids (aged 16 to 35). If this gets worse, there will be a run on Tamiflu...speak to your docs.


64 posted on 04/25/2009 2:59:25 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Who ever thought we would long for the days of the Clinton administration...)
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To: dawn53
Only those in Mexico have died, so what are we doing that they’re not doing in Mexico...Tamiflu? Respiratory support while the flu runs it’s course?

We have better nutrition and sanitation -- the two most critical factors in disease prevention. Those living in overcrowded, impoverished and polluted Mexico city are at a distinct disadvantage.
65 posted on 04/25/2009 3:07:12 PM PDT by Zechariah_8_13 ("If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else." - J. G. Machen)
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To: steve86; spectre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm


66 posted on 04/25/2009 3:08:00 PM PDT by Zechariah_8_13 ("If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else." - J. G. Machen)
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To: machogirl
It is odd (to me) that this flu is a combination of three flu types. Wondering if this could be some kind of laboratory- created flu?

You are correct, this is an engineered flu strain. This sort of strain doesn't exist naturally.
67 posted on 04/25/2009 3:10:00 PM PDT by Zechariah_8_13 ("If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else." - J. G. Machen)
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To: buccaneer81

LOL, that is A GREAT CALL!!


68 posted on 04/25/2009 3:12:22 PM PDT by peace with honor
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To: Zechariah_8_13
this is an engineered flu strain

Targeting -- let me guess! Right wing extremists?

69 posted on 04/25/2009 3:22:59 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( AR2, Overdue! = American Revolution II...Overdue.)
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To: Zechariah_8_13

I share close quarters with my dogs and cats, just like a lot of American families. My animals and I have never shared an upper respiratory infection.


70 posted on 04/25/2009 3:23:49 PM PDT by machogirl (not one of Rush's top-ten gal names)
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To: buccaneer81

I read earlier that the two first diagnosed cases were in California (near San Diego), where two children in separate counties went to the hospital on March 28 and 30th, respectively.


71 posted on 04/25/2009 3:25:13 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius
Just saw this...

March 30 Veratect reported that a 47-year-old city attorney for Cornwall (Ontario) was hospitalized in a coma at Ottawa General Hospital following a recent trip to Mexico. Family members reported the individual voluntarily reported to the hospital after gradually feeling ill upon returning from his trip on 22 March. The source stated that the hospital did not know the cause of illness. The case was reportedly on a respirator and awaiting a blood transfusion, but sources did not provide symptoms or a suggested cause of illness. This information was available in our web portal to all clients, including CDC and multiple US state and local public health authorities, however no one had connected this man’s illness with a potential crisis in Mexico.

72 posted on 04/25/2009 3:31:39 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81; TornadoAlley3

In England now.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE53O2SQ20090425

LONDON (Reuters) - A British Airways cabin crew member was taken to a London hospital as a precaution after developing flu-like symptoms on a flight from Mexico City, the airline said Saturday.


73 posted on 04/25/2009 3:34:17 PM PDT by txhurl (ralph...history books will read: Lincoln freed the slaves & Obama enslaved the free.)
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To: txhurl

Well, that’s it.../s


74 posted on 04/25/2009 3:35:25 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81; 668 - Neighbor of the Beast; riri
Cytokine storm.

Cheers!

75 posted on 04/25/2009 3:36:09 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers
Cheers!

A votre sante! ;-)

76 posted on 04/25/2009 3:39:31 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Zechariah_8_13; All
So wrt Cytokine storm...why then did the healthy ones survive THIS flu? Shouldn't it be the opposite?

In the Swine flu of 1918 the Flu kept mutating, growing in strength till it became more lethal.

We're just at the beginning of the cycle. What's to prevent THAT from happening this time?

sw

77 posted on 04/25/2009 3:43:54 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: Zechariah_8_13

What quals do you have to say it is an “engineered strain?” (My husband will be asking me WHO is saying THAT? Some no-name on the internet?)


78 posted on 04/25/2009 3:44:42 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Free Speech for THEE, but NOT for ME????)
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To: buccaneer81

March 22...I think this flu has probably been circulating for some time (at least a couple of months), but obviously it was necessary for a certain number of cases to appear in a cluster to give it an identifying characteristic that would be noticed by people who track this kind of thing.


79 posted on 04/25/2009 3:47:59 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius
I think this flu has probably been circulating for some time (at least a couple of months), but obviously it was necessary for a certain number of cases to appear in a cluster to give it an identifying characteristic that would be noticed by people who track this kind of thing.

I agree. And in Mexico, they'd blow you off anyway.

80 posted on 04/25/2009 3:51:08 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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