Posted on 05/01/2009 10:16:31 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
Much more detailed Google map of the progress of the H1N1 virus in the US:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=109496610648025582911.0004686892fbefe515012&ll=33.72434,-51.679687&spn=94.133822,172.265625&z=2&source=embed
Original link: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/147716.php
Yep you are correct :((
Yes it has
Freeper Pete posted this ...
Looks like it is now in Russia:
Two Russian women have been hospitalized in Moscow as suspected of influenza A/H1N1 after returning from the United States, the Interfax news agency reported Friday, citing Russia’s chief sanitary official. “They are in satisfactory condition,” said Gennady Onishchenko.” Both women are citizens of the Russian Federation. One of them arrived in Russia from New York yesterday, the other today. They had a high body temperature, and in compliance with our requirements, they were hospitalized,” said Onishchenko. The women had been sent to an infectious diseases hospital, and had taken influenza A/H1N1, formerly known as swine flu, tests, he added. “Since they are running temperatures, they are receiving necessary treatment. Both are in satisfactory condition,” Onishchenko said.
More details on Hong Kong case. (Bold is mine for emphasis)
Hong Kong confirmed Asia’s first case of the new H1N1 flu virus in a Mexican traveller on Friday, prompting authorities to seal off the hotel where the 25-year old man had been staying. Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang told reporters the man arrived on a China Eastern flight on Thursday afternoon after a stopover in Shanghai. He had a fever and went to Ruttonjee Hospital for help on Thursday evening, Tsang said. The Mexican is now in hospital in a stable condition. The confirmation of the H1N1 infection was made by a laboratory at the University of Hong Kong.
“He didn’t leave the hotel (except to go to hospital) because he was feeling sick,” Health Minister York Chow told a news conference.
Two companions of the Mexican and a friend he met in Hong Kong were now in isolation wards at another hospital, he said. Tsang said he had accepted the recommendation of government health experts to seal off the Metropark hotel in Wanchai district where the Mexican was staying. Dozens of police wearing surgical masks stood guard both inside and outside the hotel late on Friday. Hotel guests were prevented from leaving while outsiders could not get in.
“I assure you the Hong Kong government will try its best to conquer the virus,” Tsang said. “At the present moment, I would prefer to do it more stringently instead of missing the opportunity to control the spread of the virus.”
Chow said the hotel had about 200 guests and over 100 staff and they would be quarantined for seven days. He urged those who were not in the hotel as well as taxi drivers who took the Mexican to the hotel and to hospital to report to authorities. The drastic action left some visitors distressed.
Cinmei Sinaga from Indonesia was left standing for hours on the pavement with her eight-month-old daughter. “I don’t feel that they are doing anything to help me. I just need my passport but we cannot go to another hotel and my baby needs to sleep. I feel scared,” she told Reuters.
The affluent financial hub on the south coast of China is widely seen as one of the best-prepared Asian cities to deal with the new H1N1 flu virus, given its experience in handling sporadic outbreaks of H5N1 avian flu, as well as SARS in 2003 which killed 299 people. The order to seal off the Metropark hotel brought back memories of how SARS started in Hong Kong in February 2003. A doctor from mainland China who knew he had been infected with SARS had travelled to Hong Kong to try to seek medical help. But before he could get admitted to hospital, he infected eight people in a lift lobby of the Metropole hotel where he was staying. Some of them then went on to spread the disease in Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada and Vietnam.
To tackle the H1N1 flu virus, Hong Kong authorities have beefed up surveillance at airports and hospitals, improved public health response systems and stockpiled over 20 million doses of the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu.
and Denmark...
Denmark has confirmed its first case of H1N1 flu, a person infected in New York city, Jesper Fisker, head of Denmark”s Board of Health, said on Friday. Fisker told a news conference the person had been tested after complaining of flu-like symptoms during a Continental Airlines flight back to Denmark on April 29. He said the person had now nearly recovered but would remain in isolation until May 6. He said the person was receiving no treatment. Danish authorities say they are well prepared to handle any outbreak of the new strain of flu virus.
Israel has more confirmed case too ...
I talked to the health dept yesterday for a story, and they sent 25 samples for testing....just in this one area with no confirmed cases yet.
I can’t imagine how overwhelmed the testing facilities are.
A relative of mine was previously the head of Public Health for a fairly large state. This person still has contacts in the CDC.
They called us on Sunday and STRONGLY urged us to go ahead and contact our doctor and get a prescription for Tamiflu filled for everyone in the family. They said that by the time you need it, it will not be available
They also recommended that we stock up on food.
This relative is a skeptical, hard-nosed, unflappable sort and not given to sensationalism.
thanks for the info, please post that info to freeper Pete too :)
I thought they had switched to relenza, since the virus is resistant to tamiflu.
Any info on what they have heard? Some other reports on here have been that people are hearing it is worth than reported, including an email circulating that the doctor who wrote it now says is being taken out of context etc...
On the other hand, other signs point to this being a very mild situation, so it is hard to tell.
IOW, I don’t want to be a nut by asking my doctor for a prescription, but should I? Would they even give one for a precaution????
“I thought they had switched to relenza, since the virus is resistant to tamiflu.”
I think that is nor correct. It is the normal flu this year that is resistant to tamiflu.
“thanks for the info, please post that info to freeper Pete too :)”
Pete: Pinging you to post #29
“Any info on what they have heard? “
That’s pretty much all they told us. But they were very concerned and urged us to follow their advise.
It depends on the doctor. It is not to unusual for frequent travelers to be prescribed antiviral medication to keep with them as a precaution. However, doctors may be less apt to want to prescribe it because of the impending shortage.
I think most doctors are aware of this threat even more than we are. He or she probably won’t think you are nutty at all, just cautious. I would call.
Thanks very much for the ping. I already have the food (had that anyway). I might look into getting Tamiflu but I got 7 in my house so that could be tough.
Did you say the person passing this along to you was your relative?
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