Thanks for the link.
Please refer to the proper name of this flu, not the Orwellian substitute. SWINE FLU.
Interesting observation that it hasn’t hit the Middle East or Russia.
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Swine Flu: Ill woman is in ICU in West GA hospital
http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=10279275
Thursday, the head of Georgia’s Division of Public Health says the CDC has confirmed the first case in the state, a 30-year-old woman from Kentucky who was hospitalized in the town of LaGrange while visiting west Georgia.
She’d been in Cancun, Mexico, earlier this month.
The woman is in the ICU at West GA Medical in LaGrange, GA showing modest signs and considered seriously ill.
Timeline:
She traveled from Kentucky to Georgia with her 5-year-old daughter by way of car.
Prior to her trip to Georgia she took a leisure trip to Cancun, Mexico with a travel companion from April 17- April 21.
She began to fell ill on April 18th, but she thought it was due to the sun.
April 23: She arrived in Atlanta, GA by way of car.
April 24: She went shopping in Atlanta, GA.
April 25: She went to a wedding rehearsal dinner in LaGrange, GA.
April 26: She attended a wedding and later that day went to the ER voluntarily with family to West Georgia Medical in LaGrange, GA. She was immediately isolated. Officials performed a rapid specimen test , which the CDC received on April 28.
The family and those in her close circle were given anti-viral medications as a precaution.
The CDC and the Georgia Division of Public Health are working together to notify those that were in contact with her at the wedding.
April 30: Confirmed 30 year-old woman who has swine flu is from Warren County, Kentucky.
Notice that in the case above the woman was ambulatory for 8 days, with symptoms, before she went to the hospital. She is now in an ICU. She is 30 years old.
This is the same pattern as reported in Mexico.
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 ...
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.
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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)
All Laredo primary and secondary schools will suspend classes for the next two weeks because of an increase in respiratory infections, none of which are confirmed cases of H1N1, the new strain of swine flu, city officials said Friday.
http://www.lmtonline.com/articles/2009/05/02/news/doc49fbf7fd2ea06786082058.txt
Iowa has first confirmed case
http://www.kcci.com/news/19351349/detail.html
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DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Department of Public Health has confirmed Iowa’s first case of the H1N1 flu on Saturday morning.
The first confirmed case involves a southeast Iowa adult female who became ill last week after returning from Mexico. She traveled through Johnson, Des Moines and Muscatine counties.
Gov. Chet Culver declared a statewide public heath disaster.
“As I’ve have said all along, it was only a matter of time before Iowa saw its first case of this flu, and today (Saturday) the CDC has confirmed that an individual in eastern Iowa does in fact have an H1N1 infection,” Culver said in a news release.
The release said the results of a second case of suspected H1N1 came back negative.
There are seven outstanding tests of probable H1N1 flu cases; six are located in Marshall County and one in Tama County. The release did not say when those test results would come available.
Two ‘probable’ cases of Swine Flu reported at Stroger Hospital . One in stable condition ...
CHICAGO — Two patients at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County were discovered with “probable cases” of Swine Flu, officials announced.
According to a release from the hospital, a 37-year-old Chicago woman arrived at Stroger Wednesday night with a fever, cough and body aches. Like most flu patients, she was placed in isolation and given anti-viral medicine.
Since her symptoms were “not severe,” she was released and advised to wear a mask, complete flu medication and limit contact with others, the release said.
“During her triage and registration, hospital staff learned that she had a relative who recently returned from Mexico,” hospital spokesman Marcel Bright said in a statement.
The woman’s family was being interviewed Friday night to determine whether they should be treated.
Also on Wednesday, a 53-year-old Chicago man went to Stroger with pneumonia and chronic lung disease. He is listed in “stable” condition at the hospital with a “probable” swine flu case.
The hospital sent the information to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for analysis.
Three cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Illinois and the number of probable cases of the virus has risen to at least 51 Friday morning. Officials could not confirm Friday night whether the Stroger cases were included in that number.
As of 10 a.m. Friday, there were three confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus in the state, two in the city of Chicago and one in DuPage County, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.
“The confirmation of these cases was expected and we do anticipate more. There is no need to be alarmed,” said Dr. Damon T. Arnold, Illinois Department of Public Health Director said in a release.
“We have pre-positioned antiviral medications and medical supplies at hospitals and local health departments across the state so if and when they are needed, they will be readily available.”
Of the 51 probable cases reported in Illinois as of Friday morning, 17 were in Chicago and 11 were in suburban Cook County, according to IDPH. DuPage County has 12 suspected cases, Kane County eight, and Will County three, while Lake, Kendall and McHenry counties have one each.
IDPH spokeswoman Melaney Arnold said Thursday that information on the number of cases of the virus is changing quickly.
A “probable” case means lab testing done by the state has found a 99 percent certainty that a person has swine flu, Arnold said. All cases are sent to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for confirmation.
According to the CDC, 109 human cases of swine flu have been confirmed nationwide, with one of those resulting in death.
As of Friday, at least 16 schools in the Chicago area have closed as a preventative measure after probable cases of the flu were detected.
In Chicago, Chicago Public Schools officials announced that Joyce Kilmer School in Rogers Park will remain closed until further notice. The school was closed Wednesday when a 12-year-old student was determined to be a probable case of swine flu, and officials noticed lower than normal attendance.
CPS is monitoring attendance at all schools to determine whether more will close.
A hotline allowing Illinois residents to access information about the swine flu will be open starting Saturday morning, according to a release from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. The line will operate from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily, and will be staffed by volunteers.
The operators will answer basic, non-medical questions released to the outbreak.. The number, (866) 848-2094, will be operating as of 6 a.m. Saturday. The IEMA also has an updated website residents can check at Ready.Illinois.gov.
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Are these confirmed cases?
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‘They wanted to send me home so I threatened to chain myself to the bed’: British swine flu victim’s hospital ordeal
2:09 AM on 03rd May 2009
“A British victim of swine flu had to beg doctors to keep him in hospital while he was still suffering from the virus. Student Stefano Boccino, 22, was taken to hospital on Wednesday after falling ill while travelling back from the Mexican resort of Cancun.”
Sort of like a score card?