Posted on 05/01/2009 10:16:31 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
Amen, backhoe. Just like the fact that there should be some teachers who have taken gun safety courses and gotten their CCW licenses, but the liberal whiners think guns are bad. Well, guns aren’t bad. People are bad.
Well I heard about a person who planned to visit her mother in Mexico this week was called by relatives in Mexico to stay here and NOT come it was bad. IT was NOT a time for this person to come for a visit. I do not know where exactly in Mexico this is. I do not know if the person went.
Does one need a prescription for Tamiflu?
Yes.
“Does one need a prescription for Tamiflu?”
Yes.
Now I do not care who you are, that is funny!!!!!
I was occupied when the news broke. So trying to wade back in the various reports to find out the facts has not been an easy track. None of what has been or continues to be reported makes this specific flu the swine flu. So whomever labeled it that is initially is still a mystery to me.
I am a physician and I’m not prescribing Tamiflu to anyone who isn’t sick and confirmed to have influenza A. If things really do go into the toilet with this (highly unlikely), there isn’t enough Tamiflu in the country to treat everyone. It should be reserved for the very ill...and of course the government elite. /sarc
Thank you. That answers my question in regards to bothering with calling my doctor's office. He is very well insulated with a huge staff through to which to actually get a call to him is nigh on to impossible. But I do not begrudge him that as I do not necessarily need or desire to see or speak to him unless necessary. But he is well protected.
Must read ping !!!
Here is an interesting website with detailed information on the clinical side of the flu virus.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/FLU/SwineFlu.html
This link allows a search. Just choose “Human” for host and 2009 for the year and it will show all submitted cases to National Center for Biotechnology Information.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/FLU/Database/select.cgi?go=1
I would be interested here from someone from a clinical background who can make sense of some of the technical stuff.
This link shows the details of one particular sample from CA from a 9 year old girl.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/FJ966955
Look at the collection date. March 30, 2009. This means this strain has been in the United States for at least a month. Note, chances are we didn’t know it until later than that.
Thank you.
Thank you. Excellent.
Ping
Thanks for the ping.
Thanks for the ping. Looks like they don’t want to put the blue markers up yet. Why have the blue key if they are not going to bother with it....LOL.
LOL!
Must Read !
interesting read freeper thread
interesting freeper thread :)
Briton says he caught new flu during brief meeting
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L2468577.htm
Source: Reuters
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LONDON, May 2 (Reuters) - One of the two people in Britain to have contracted the new deadly flu strain without having recently visited Mexico said on Saturday he believed he caught the virus during a brief meeting with a work colleague.
Barry Greatorex, 42, is one of 13 people in Britain to have tested positive for the new strain of Influenza A (H1N1).
He said he caught the disease last week during a half-hour meeting with a colleague who had recently returned from Mexico but had herself so far tested negative.
“She had a cough then and that’s seemingly where I got it,” he told Sky News. “I wasn’t there too long but it was obviously enough.”
Greatorex and Graeme Pacitti, 24, from Falkirk on Friday became the first confirmed cases where the infection had been spread by person to person within Britain.
Previous sufferers had caught the virus while in Mexico and Pacitti became ill after spending time with Iain and Dawn Askham, Britain’s first confirmed swine flu cases who returned from their Mexican honeymoon with the virus.
“The first non-imported cases of swine flu have been confirmed in England and Scotland,” said Chief Medical Advisor Liam Donaldson late on Friday.
“Until now cases were confined to people who had themselves recently come back from Mexico.”
Tests are now being carried out on a further 642 suspected cases across Britain.
Health officials said so far the majority of patients with the flu had suffered mild symptoms and had responded well to antiviral treatment.
Greatorex said he had been feeling “pretty bad” all week until he received the Tamiflu drug on Friday.
“The first few days this week, I’ve never experienced anything like it and wouldn’t wish it on anybody,” he said.
The government has been stockpiling anti-viral doses and has launched “Catch it, Bin it, Kill it!” adverts, urging people to cover coughs and sneezes with tissues, throw them away and then wash their hands. (Reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Sophie Hares)
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