Posted on 06/24/2009 8:04:24 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.guelphmercury.com ...
There is our August and September. I am keeping my youngest home from school this fall. We have already talked about it.
I feel the same way you do ...
Here ia a link to another site with good info on the flu
Comprehensive Flu Thread, Latest reports, States, Countries, Closings.
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=330395&page=59
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.
You can’t get Tamiflu without a doctor’s prescription .
It is really hard to get Tamiflu know :((
Argentina on Verge of Declaring Swine Flu “Emergency”
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=338056&CategoryId=14093
Argentine health authorities said Saturday that a “health emergency” could be declared nationwide after elections on Sunday because of the progress of the AH1N1 flu virus, which up to now has taken 26 lives and has infected 1,587 people. Meanwhile, health organizations said that the number of people infected in the country “is substantially greater” that the official toll and that hospitals are “verging on collapse.”
Cluster of 5 Pregnant Swine Flu victims in ICU’s in the Bay Area —
an updated and expanded video from tonight’s local news CBS 5 station in the SF Bay Area
There is new information and expanded discussion of how this is happening ...
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=
Great observtion! Just what the Dems need - another "crisis" to support their cause!
D.C. Area Health Officials See Rise in Summertime Flu Cases
Many of those being treated are school-age children, officials said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/29/AR2009062903925.html
thanks :)
More info on the US resident who died while in Canada:
Derzon, former health care official, succumbed to swine flu
Richard Halstead
Posted: 06/29/2009 06:34:07 PM PDT
http://www.marinij.com/ci_12717050?source=rss
The recent death of Robert Derzon, a Mill Valley resident and retired U.S. health official, was due to swine flu, his son said Monday.
[snip]
It was soon after Derzon arrived in Orangeville, where he was staying with a longtime friend in early June, that he began to feel ill, his son said. But Derzon resisted going to the hospital.
“My dad hated the emergency room,” Mike Derzon said.
When Robert Derzon went to the hospital, on June 8 or 9, he was diagnosed as having pneumonia and congestive heart failure. An initial test for swine flu was negative but a second more definitive test came back positive on June 15 or 16, his son said.
[snip]
Seems ironic, or perhaps telling, that a retired health care official would avoid the hospital.
Sent you a PM.
California continues to have widespread flu activity, a rare occurrence as July approaches
By Sandy Kleffman
Contra Costa Times
Posted: 06/29/2009 04:37:32 PM PDT
Updated: 06/30/2009 06:57:09 AM PDT
http://www.contracostatimes.com/heal...237?source=rss
With July just around the corner, now is the time to focus on ice-cream cones, barbecues and dips in a cool pool.
But health experts warn that one other thing should remain uppermost in people’s minds — the flu.
California is one of 12 states that continue to report widespread influenza activity, a rare occurrence for this time of year.
Experts believe the regular seasonal flu has faded away, as it typically does during the summer, and most cases now involve the swine flu, otherwise known as the novel H1N1 virus.
“It’s almost like we’re in the middle of a new flu season,” said Dr. Stephen Parodi, chief of infectious disease for Kaiser Permanente in Northern California.
“Looking at the amount of influenza we’re currently seeing,” Parodi said, “it would not surprise me if we have continued activity through at least the next several weeks, if not months.”
For that reason, Parodi and others advise people to remain vigilant by covering coughs, washing hands frequently and staying home when sick for at least seven days after the onset of symptoms.
Some experts worry people will let down their guards because summer is not usually the time to be concerned about flu-related illnesses.
“People need to know that we are continuing to see H1N1 activity pretty much parallel to what we were seeing in April, May and even June,” said Dr. Gil Chavez, deputy director of the Center for Infectious Disease at the California Department of Public Health.
Scientists detected the first U.S. cases of the H1N1 virus in California in April. Because this is a novel virus that no one has been exposed to before, people have little or no immunity to it. That could be one of the reasons the virus is continuing to circulate during the summer months.
Swine flu symptoms are similar to the standard flu, including a fever, coughing, shortness of breath, fatigue and chills. Some people also report vomiting and diarrhea.
At least 142 Californians have been hospitalized because of swine flu, and many more have been sickened at home and recovered. Most cases are mild, but 17 Californians have died.
Children are among those who have been hit the hardest. Experts note that schools provide prime opportunities for transmission of the virus because so many people gather there.
Now that schools are out, children have another place where they can easily become infected — summer camps.
The Muscular Dystrophy Association announced on June 19 that it would cancel its remaining 47 summer camp programs, involving 2,500 children, because of the H1N1 virus. It took the action after several swine flu cases were reported at its camps.
The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is advising camp operators to quickly identify and isolate sick children and to encourage both campers and staff members to remain home when ill.
In an unusual twist, unlike the seasonal flu, the H1N1 virus has typically not prompted severe illnesses among the elderly. One possible explanation is that people older than 65 were exposed to a similar virus many years ago and thus have some immunity, Chavez said.
Ten of the 17 Californians who died from swine flu had pre-existing health conditions, including chronic respiratory problems such as asthma and emphysema.
But others were seemingly healthy before they were stricken, including a middle-aged Contra Costa County man who died June 12.
Two middle-aged Alameda County men who died had pre-existing conditions, as did a middle-aged San Mateo County woman.
No vaccine exists for the swine flu, but the CDC is working with manufacturers on the initial steps toward development.
As the summer progresses, state and federal health officials will watch the virus closely here and in the Southern Hemisphere, which has its flu season during our summer.
State officials are monitoring the virus to see if its makeup changes, a development that could make it become more virulent, Chavez said. They also hope to learn more about the severest cases to understand who is most at risk.
The World Health Organization, which has declared the swine flu to be a global pandemic, reports confirmed cases in at least 88 countries.
The big question will be what happens in the fall when the U.S. flu season returns. Will several flu viruses circulate at once? Will the swine flu take over, squeezing out the others? Will the relatively mild swine flu virus suddenly become more virulent?
“Watching what occurs in the Southern Hemisphere will give us a good preview,” Parodi said.
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hmmm is correct :(
thanks for the info !
Prayers for the family.
Swine flu so prevalent hospitals will no longer admit all sufferers
Paggie Leung
Jun 28, 2009
Health officials have decided to change their strategies for treating swine flu given that the virus has become the most prevalent flu strain in Hong Kong.
From tomorrow, hospitals will no longer admit every swine flu patient and only some patients will be offered the antiviral Tamiflu.
Centre for Health Protection controller Thomas Tsang Ho-fai yesterday said the A(H1N1) flu had become the dominant strain of flu virus in Hong Kong, accounting for more than 70 per cent of flu samples tested at the centre last week compared with 20 per cent in the first week of June. In addition, one in eight outpatients attending the Hospital Authority’s designated flu clinics had tested positive for the virus, he said.
Hong Kong confirmed at least 33 new swine flu cases yesterday, bringing the total to 629, the Department of Health said. “The number of confirmed cases is just the tip of the iceberg,” Dr Tsang said. “There are many other cases that have not been detected. The human swine flu virus is now widely circulating in Hong Kong, just like any seasonal influenza virus. Because of this fact, we need to ... adjust our mitigation strategy so as to concentrate more on disease surveillance as well as helping those people who have more severe diseases [to protect themselves].”
He said methods such as isolating patients and tracing people they had been in contact with were no longer efficient ways to reduce transmission of the virus.
Hospital Authority director Leung Pak-yin said admitting every swine flu patient to hospital would affect services for other patients.
“The admission and discharge of swine flu patients will depend on their clinical conditions,” he said. “For example, if the patients have respiratory problems, low oxygen-carrying levels or pneumonia, then they need to be admitted to hospital.”
Patients with severe conditions would be admitted to hospitals, he said, and pregnant women and children aged two or under would be sent to hospital once when they had tested positive for the virus.
Dr Leung said the eight designated flu clinics would continue to treat patients with fever and flu symptoms, but Tamiflu would only be given to those with chronic diseases or weak immune systems.
SCMP
The above article is from South China Morning Post
I thought the link was in the article sorry ...
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