H1N1 flu victim collapsed on way to hospital [Latest H1N1 updates downthread]

GuelphMercury.com ^ | June 24, 2009 | Raveena Aulakh

[metmom]

Within minutes, six-year-old Rubjit Thindal went from happily chatting in the back seat of the car to collapsing and dying in her father's arms.

"If we had known it was so serious, we would have called 911,'' Kuldip Thindal, Rubjit's distraught mother, said in Punjabi yesterday. "She just had a stomach ache -- she wasn't even crying.''

Rubjit was pronounced dead at hospital barely 24 hours after showing signs of a fever. Later, doctors told her parents she had the H1N1 influenza virus. She is believed to be the youngest person in Canada with the virus to have died.

[Larousse2]

I received a very important article from Dr. Joseph Mercola's newsletter this morning, not only warning that a German scientists says that the H1N1 vaccination contains ANIMAL CANCER CELLS, but also that many countries are reporting seasonal flu as swine flu. The numbers are over-stated.

Please read this important article: Another Shocking Warning About Swine Flu Vaccine

[DvdMom]

http://www.physorg.com/news160146203.html

[DvdMom]

Swine flu teen to have feet amputated

Glenis Green

September 09, 2009 12:00am

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,27574,26047259-3102,00.html

A SUNSHINE Coast teenager will have both feet amputated after suffering serious medical complications as a result of contracting swine flu.

Fiona Summersides ended up spending her 18th birthday in intensive care in hospital ahead of a long battle with the virus which almost killed her.

She had planned to attend a dance party in Sydney for her special day on July 30.

Ms Summersides’ single-parent father, Terry, said both he and his daughter were shattered to hear that collapsed lungs as a result of the flu’s complications had resulted in gangrene in her feet.

“She’s trying to be strong, but she’s very scared of course,” he said yesterday of his daughter, who is now trying to build up her strength.

[DvdMom]

Denham Springs Woman Latest Swine Flu Victim
POSTED: 7:44 am CDT September 8, 2009

http://www.wdsu.com/news/20789339/detail.html

DENHAM SPRINGS, La. — The fourth person to die as the result of swine flu has been identified as a 19-year-old Denham Springs woman.

Taylor Whitney Brian’s mother said her daughter died Saturday at a Baton Rouge hospital after testing negative three times for the swine flu virus. Ruthie Brian said her daughter first became sick on Aug. 20 and was diagnosed with strep throat.

Taylor Brian was a senior at Denham Springs High School.

The death was announced Sunday by the state health department,which did not identify the victim.

[DvdMom]

Have you read post 1,183 Swine flu teen to have feet amputated ?

That is the 1st case I heard of that happening ....

[FromLori]

omg no wll now thank you

[Gene Eric]

Thanks for the update. Very sad regarding the teen.

[Quix]

Thanks. Will check it out.

[WestCoastGal]

I’ve never heard of gangrene because of lung collapse - truly scary!!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[DvdMom]

Taylor Whitney Brian, 19, became the fourth person to die in Louisiana from swine flu or swine flu complications

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/57668737.html?showAll=y&c=y

Early tests were negative

Mother: Swine flu not diagnosed until 2 days before death
By SANDY DAVIS
Advocate staff writer
Published: Sep 8, 2009 - Page: 1A

The 19-year-old Denham Springs woman who died Saturday from swine flu had been tested three times for Type A influenza since she first became ill Aug. 20, her mother said.

Each time, the test came back negative.

It wasn’t until she was hospitalized that she was tested specifically for swine flu, which was confirmed Thursday.

Two days later, Taylor Whitney Brian, a senior at Denham Springs High School, became the fourth person to die in Louisiana from swine flu or swine flu complications.

She died at Baton Rouge General Medical Center-Bluebonnet, where she had been treated since Aug. 29, said Ruthie Brian, her mother.

“My daughter was a healthy, vibrant young girl. She did not have any underlying illness,” Brian said. “She went from being a healthy child one minute to this. It’s just so hard to believe.”

Bill Spear, superintendent of the Livingston Parish school system, said Monday that “School will be open on Tuesday and counselors will be on hand to help students deal with the death of our student.”

He also said the district is taking every precaution to try and prevent other students from becoming infected.

“We’re fortunate that no students have been on campus for three days because of the holiday weekend,” he said.

Spear said district employees were at the high school Monday “wiping down desks, doorknobs and other common areas where students frequent.”

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Web site, “swine flu is only contact viable for two to eight hours,” Spear said.

“But we’d rather err on the side of caution,” he said.

Ruthie Brian said that when her daughter first became sick on Aug. 20, she took her to the doctor and was told her daughter had strep throat. She was given antibiotics.

The doctor also tested the teen to see if she had the flu, Brian said.

The test came back negative, Brian said.

The rapid flu test is generally performed in a doctor’s office to determine whether a patient has Type A flu, Type B flu or does not have the flu.

Swine flu, or novel H1N1 as it is also known, is one of several strains of Type A flu. State health officials have said they assume anyone who tests positive for Type A flu has swine flu.

The state Department of Health and Hospitals is no longer testing for swine flu unless a patient with flu symptoms is hospitalized or the patient’s doctor is one of the state’s sentinel physicians, a group of doctor’s across the state asked by DHH to help monitor the outbreak.

In recent months, private laboratories have been certified by the state to conduct the tests, and some doctors are using these laboratories.

Taylor Brian went back to school Aug. 24 and 25.

By Aug. 26, she told her mother she didn’t feel well and stayed home from school.

Over the next few days, Ruthie Brian took her daughter back to the doctor two more times and each time the doctor tested her for Type A flu.

“And each time the tests came back negative,” Ruthie Brian said.

Taylor Brian became so sick on Aug. 29, her doctor sent her to the hospital.

“She didn’t feel good during the first few days she was in the hospital, but she was still talking and sending text messages to her friends and watching TV,” Ruthie Brian said.

In her first few days at the hospital, doctors tested Taylor Brian twice for swine flu, but the samples had to be sent to out-of-town laboratories and the results weren’t going to be back for five to 14 days, Ruthie Brian said.

“It was frustrating,” Brian said. “We thought all along she had swine flu.”

By Monday night, doctors decided to begin treating the teenager for swine flu, Brian said.

“They started giving her Tamiflu,” Brian said of the anti-viral drug used to treat the symptoms of swine flu.

State health officials, however, have said Tamiflu works only if it is given within the first 24 to 48 hours of the onset of flu symptoms.

In the middle of the night on Sept. 1, Taylor Brian started having trouble breathing and she was taken to the intensive care unit, her mother said.

Doctors decided to take a third swine flu sample, and this time they found a laboratory in Baton Rouge that could perform the test and return the results within a few days.

“On Thursday, we were told Taylor tested positive for swine flu,” Brian said. “We were relieved because we knew she was being treated for swine flu and this also explained why there was this horrendous attack on her lungs. We thought she would be all right.”

Brian said doctors said at first her daughter would recover, but it might take awhile. “I just told them that my baby needed to be all right by prom,” Brian said. “She lived and breathed her senior year. It was the highlight of this child’s life.”

But early Saturday morning, Taylor Brian died.

“She died from pneumonia,” Ruthie Brian said. “If you get swine flu, you can get the complication of pneumonia.”

Brian said she does not blame the doctors.

“They did everything they could,” Brian said. “The flu tests kept coming back negative. What else could they have done?”

Public information from DHH over individual deaths from swine flu has been minimal. Even Spear said he had not been contacted by DHH over Taylor Brian’s death.

Ruthie Brian said she has a warning for other parents.

“When your child first has flu symptoms, don’t get them tested for the regular flu,” she said. “Get them tested specifically for swine flu.

“I don’t want to see another child suffer like Taylor did,” she said.

[DvdMom]

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:39 pm Post subject:

BULLETB

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=126579

OYS Drummer Diagnosed With Severe Case Of Pneumonia - Sep. 8, 2009
BULLETBOYS drummer Ryche Green was rushed to the ER upon returning home from the band’s recently completed “Summer Rockfest” tour with FASTER PUSSYCAT, BANG TANGO and SISTER SIN. Ryche became very ill while on tour and has since been diagnosed with a severe case of pneumonia. Ryche has been confined to ICU in a breathing tent. According to a press release, Ryche carried on playing night after night while ill until he could no longer function. Consequently, the BULLETBOYS show originally set for September 5 at Club Skye in Arizona was cancelled and rescheduled for Halloween (October 31).

[DvdMom]

Penny Arcade Expo swine flu cases revealed

US show could have spread illness

Sep 9, 2009
http://play.tm/news/26579/penny-arcade-expo-swine-flu-cases-revealed/

A new Twitter update from those behind last week’s Penny Arcade Expo has admitted that they have received reports of a number of swine flu cases from the big US games event.

Apparently, 15 flights to and from Seattle contained PAX attendees who it is later believed were diagnosed with the illness.

The list of flights is available on the Penny Arcade website.

This from PA’s Robert Khoo, speaking to Kotaku: “This is the real thing. If you get this number of people together in this close a proximity it is the perfect storm for these kind of wild fire virus spreads. We just want to make sure everyone is informed.”

[WestCoastGal]

So they have gone all around the country now spreading this more.

The story of the high school girl dying after being mis-diagnosed is truly heart breaking. This may become typical as many cities, Dr’s and hospitals are ill equipped to test for this even after having months to prepare.

This was posted on twitter today - typical wrong information being spread by Ron Paul of all people. He says no one has died yet?? Wondering when he taped that. He’s right about the vaccine though.

swine flu “vaccine” if it wasn’t deadly? 6 of 10 tested lab animals died. http://bit.ly/PZs0x

[DvdMom]

WV:

50 students may have swine flu in Marion

September 09, 2009 8:46 AM
FAIRMONT, W.Va.
http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/wv/news4.shtml

Marion County health officials suspect a third of students at Fairview Middle School have swine flu.

Though only two cases of the virus have been confirmed at the school, public health emergency response coordinator Jamie Moore said more than 50 students are displaying symptoms of swine flu: sore throat, fever and cough.

As a precaution, Principal Steve Rodriguez says janitors are wiping down doorknobs, railings and other hard surfaces every 45 minutes. Buses are also being disinfected and students are being encouraged to wash their hands.

Marion County Schools Assistant Superintendent Gary Price said 64 students at Fairview Middle were absent Tuesday.

Parents were notified of the situation on Friday and given information about caring for sick children.

[Palladin]

That proves that Ron Paul is a liar.

[Palladin]

This is awful. Another perfectly healthy child taken from her family.

I think if I had a child come down with a high fever, I’d go straight to the ER and forget about the GP doctor.

[WestCoastGal]

Dr on local news in Texas says the only flu circulating is H1N1 so if you have flu symptoms you have the swine flu.

[bethybabes69]

Hi DVDMom.
What a terrible outcome, my prayers and best wishes to Her & Her family.

It certainly is an interesting story from a pathogenic point of view, have you come across anything similar elsewhere?

These are the extreme cytokine responses, I think, that many younger people/adults will need to be observed for.
This response is well documented in the excellent article you posted me earlier in the week. Also, from reading tons of documents about this on the web, and from medical journal feeds, it's sounding plausible that these aggressive cytokine responses in some people when exposed, is going to be the most important factor in serious complications during this whole outbreak.

This could also go some way at the moment, to explain some of the drastic differences in symptoms across patients, some people are simply designed to succumb, maybe genetically to this virus, whilst others have little issues with it.

The other issue that's relative here is the response from vaccinations boosted with squalene adjuvants, which can trigger these responses also, when immature and/or susceptible body defences are exposed to a virus, and chemicals, that characteristically trigger an aggressive reaction to the presence in the host body.

This virus is proving to be an enigma for many reasons, notwithstanding it's dubious origins, but simply explaining, say this Girls' reaction, and someone who didn't even have days off work when infected.

I think Smokers should be very cautious, this could hit Smokers hard, seeing the way this affected my Friends Hubby in his lungs, and the difference in how it affected Her was drastic, and smoking was the only obvious variable between 2 healthy, twenty-somethings. That is one statistic they should quantify, how many serious affected patients are smokers.

[bethybabes69]

THE EMEA PROVIDES DISCLOSURE

Over the weekend, a gentleman in Belgium sent a very interesting e-mail. He had finally succeeded in getting a document from the European Medicines Agency (EMEA -the European Union's equivalent of America's FDA) that listed the basic ingredients in the primary "pandemic flu" vaccine being purchased for Europe ­ GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) PANDEMRIX vaccine. This EMEA Document is very, very revealing.

The vaccine consists of:

Active Substance: Pandemic influenza vaccine (H5N1) (split virion, inactivated, adjuvanted) A/VietNam/1194/2004 NIBRG-14.

Clearly, this is BIRD FLU vaccine, with the isolated antigen being the VietNam killer bird flu virus that has exhibited such a high mortality rate amongst victims in that country. The problem is, according to the WHO, the pandemic flu threatening Europe and the world is not a BIRD FLU (H5N1) virus at all, but is a "Novel" Swine Flu (H1N1) virus. How is it possible that such a specific BIRD FLU VACCINE would give any immune protection to a "Novel" Swine Flu "pandemic" virus?

It would seem that GSK is trying to unload stockpiles of its "Avian Pandemic Flu" vaccine by disguising it as a generic "Pandemic" vaccine under the name "PANDEMRIX"!! Why is the EMEA allowing this to happen? Will the FDA follow the EMEA's lead and allow "Pandemrix" bird flu viruses to be shot into millions of school children in America? Or will it be only Novartis or Novavax vaccines allowed in America? When will Americans be given FULL DISCLOSURE OF THE LABELING, and the COMPANIES UNDER CONTRACT?? More here