Posted on 04/27/2009 10:02:54 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Avian flu and SARS rudely awoke the world to the possibility of a new pandemic. Could a seemingly more mundane bug now put the world to the test?
The swine flu virus that may have killed more than 80 people in Mexico and appears to have sickened hundreds more is still a mystery contagion. But this much is known: The virus is unusually made up of genetic material from avian, pig and human viruses; it can transmit from person to person; and in many people, it only triggers mild symptoms seen in garden-variety influenza.
The current virus is mainly sickening the young and the healthy, yet such bugs are notorious for their ability to evolve. "We are too early in our investigations to be able to address the lethality of the virus," said Keiji Fukuda, interim assistant director-general at the World Health Organization, said Sunday. "Properties of flu viruses can change -- they can go from mild to being more severe and can move from being more severe to less."
The WHO, a United Nations agency based in Geneva, said it may have been harder to detect the initial cases in Mexico because the outbreak started during flu season. But when Mexican officials noticed an increase in cases of pneumonia, including serious pneumonia, they launched an investigation and had the virus tested in labs in order to determine the actual strain.
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That’s the most concise explanation so far.
The stuff on the cytokine storms is interesting.
I have teenagers and wonder the same thing.
Further up in the thread, or maybe on another one, 2,000 units of Vitamin D are thought to be effective with the symptoms.
Ha, ha, very good! :-)
Will be sharing them at home and at work.
Cheers!
Thanks for the ping!
You asked:
http://jollyrogerrevolution.blogspot.com/2009/04/if-you-sell-crack-join-gang-or-rob-mob.html
“Scientists” sometimes make strange things.
And the virus was detected in 1998 and part of the sequence was submitted 2003
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/29539579?report=genbank
If you protein BLAST http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov the protein sequence of FJ966080 i.e. the PB1 for one of the present Mexican viruses the highest score, 1575, is for the Wisconsin man virus above.
You may be thinking of these two references to Vitamin D from a thread a few days ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237216/posts?page=67#67
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237216/posts?page=51#51
Negative: It seems to be very contagious
Positive: It does not seem to be attacking the respiratory tract
Positive: It is probably very mild at present, I guess that many patients in Mexico died from secondary infections
One thing to do is to have everyone of adult size (including older teenagers) take a Vitamin D supplement of about 2000 units a day. Alternatively they could stay in the bright sunlight 20 mins a day (or more if the skin is dark) with a lot of skin exposed (legs, arms, head). The latter is perfectly fine for little kids too. No sunscreen.
There is evidence that people with enough Vitamin D in their systems don’t get the flu. You can google it for more info.
If that is correct then there might be a massive reduction of Islamic fundamentalist: Burkas
A Pakistani, among those killed by flu
Sunday, April 26, 2009
The INER reported 15 deaths from the epidemic in National Institute of Respiratory Diseases
A Pakistani was the first foreigner to have died in Mexico, the victim of swine influenza. To his family, a group of about eight people, samples were taken for analysis and were given treatment with the antiviral oseltamivir. Sources from the Ministry of Health confirmed the death of Pakistan, which is part of the 20 deceased persons to whom it was found that the contracted swine influenza.
According to data collected by El Universal, Pakistani, which is not provided the name, joined the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) on April 16.
The Health Department detected its first case of swine influenza and released three days before the April 17 first epidemiological alert for an outbreak of atypical seasonal influenza. The alien died on Sunday April 19. His relatives were summoned to proportional one days after the medication and prevent the spread of the virus. INER in the 15 patients died, one at 11:30 am yesterday by a virus whose name did not clarify the institute’s director, Edgar Mondragon Armijo.
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http://pandemicinformationnews.blogspot.com/2009/04/pakistani-among-those-killed-by-flu.html
Swine Flu Article Ping ...
Thank you
AdmSmith posted this link with very good 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
The search engine did all the work.
I am ok on some computer advice ....medical is out of my league...you might look at #59.
Thanks AdmSmith.
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