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 ...
Sad times indeed, that we have to worry about this cr@p :(
Awww, thanks.
(blush)
This is a thread where we post new swine flu article .
It’s interesting to read the articles to see what has changed .
Nasal Vaccine Holds Promise Against Swine Flu
By ANDREW POLLACK
Published: July 30, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/business/31flumist.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Posted on Sat, Aug. 01, 2009
JASON EBERHART-PHILLIPS: PREPARE FOR MORE H1N1 VIRUS THIS FALL
As the H1N1 flu epidemic enters its fourth month in Kansas, the lurid headlines and cable news frenzy that marked the early stages of the outbreak are over. It may seem that the threat is gone. But the virus never left.
Here and around the world, the H1N1 pandemic is gaining momentum. We need to get ourselves prepared.
For a completely new organism, the novel H1N1 flu virus has a remarkable capacity to transmit itself among human hosts. In only 100 days, it spread from two countries on one continent to 160 countries on every continent of the world.
Most disease has been mild, or without any noteworthy symptoms. But for a significant minority of hosts, the disease has been severe. Already the pandemic strain has claimed about 800 lives worldwide, three times the number lost to the “bird flu” since 2003.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in the next two years, 20 to 40 percent of the U.S. population will be stricken, with many of the cases compressed into “waves” of infection lasting eight to 12 weeks. The number of pandemic-related deaths could range from 90,000 to several hundred thousand.
In Kansas, as many as 10,000 cases already have occurred, with confirmed disease now reported in 35 counties throughout the state. Ordinarily flu is not seen during summer months, but more counties were newly confirmed with H1N1 disease during July than in any previous month.
The pattern of cases here, as in other states, points to a distinctly higher risk for the young. The average age for confirmed cases in Kansas is just 17 years, with about 80 percent of cases occurring before the age of 35 years. Although the elderly would comprise a majority of severe cases in a normal flu season, cases of H1N1 flu are relatively rare in people over 65.
Our objectives are to reduce illness and death from the pandemic while minimizing social disruption. Together we will monitor the spread of the disease, advise health care providers on treatment and prevention, educate the public on “social distancing” and other techniques to slow down transmission, and, if necessary, release publicly held stockpiles of antiviral drugs that can speed recovery in cases of severe disease and reduce the risk of fatal complications.
At the same time this fall, we will work with local public health departments to administer the largest single vaccination campaign our state has ever seen, if federal health authorities decide to make an H1N1 vaccine available for use in the whole population.
Hospitals and other health care providers are now making sure they are ready for a surge in demand for their services in the months ahead. Businesses around the state are preparing for continuity of operations in the event of high levels of absenteeism. Schools are preparing teachers and parents for heightened vigilance, strict exclusion of ill students, and possible schoolwide dismissals.
If you have gotten out of the habit of careful handwashing, covering your coughs and staying in when you’re ill, it’s time to take such precautions again. For information on H1N1 flu activity, go to the Web site www.kdheks.gov.
In a pandemic, neither alarm nor complacency is helpful. But by understanding the risks, taking reasonable steps to prevent transmission, and working together on solutions, we will get through this and keep one another safe.
Jason Eberhart-Phillips is Kansas state health officer.
http://www.kansas.com/950/story/913603.html
TB2
Calif. H1N1 flu more virulent than Mexican
Posted on: Friday, 31 July 2009, 14:38 CDT
The California isolate of the pandemic H1N1 virus is more virulent than the Mexico isolate and both are more virulent than seasonal flu, U.S. researchers say.
Juergen Richt of Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine and colleagues say establishing animal models for pandemic H1N1 is important because physicians have two types of antiviral medications to treat influenza. One type, adamantine-like drugs, targets the M2 protein; the other type includes drugs like Tamiflu that target the neuraminidase protein.
Richt says that this pandemic H1N1 is already resistant to the M2 inhibitors but still is sensitive to Tamiflu.
Some pandemic flu isolates from humans have now shown resistance to the Tamiflu, Richt says in a statement.
So the big issue now is if these Tamiflu-resistant strains take over, we have no drug to treat infected patients. And because we don’t have a vaccine yet in the United States, this might be a problem.
Source: United Press International
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This is a thread where new articles are posted . Alot of information in this thread .
A list of the state websites can be found here:
http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/states.htm
CDC tally here: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/update.htm
Spreadsheet here: http://tinyurl.com/h1n1USdeaths
More info ...
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What the heck?
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Good GRIEF!
OMG! Isn’t it true what goes up the nose, goes immediately to THE BRAIN?
Larousse2 Thanks for posting on this thread :) Any swine flu article posted on this thread are appreciated !
Calif. H1N1 flu more virulent than Mexican isolate and both are more virulent than seasonal flu
Flu strains circulate for years before becoming a pandemic
Study-The way H1N1 multiplies in the respiratory system is more severe than seasonal flu.
Laboratory-Acquired Vaccinia Virus Infection - Virginia, 2008
University Of Alabama Implements Mandatory H1N1Vaccination Program
Health Officials Admit Fast Tracked H1N1 Vaccines Will Not Be Tested for Safety
metmom posted this awhile ago . So I’ve been just posting articles to this thread . Do you think we need a new thread ?
However, I could start a swine flu ping list and post threads I find. I think DVDMom adding all these links in one thread like this is a great idea.
Kind of like one stop shopping. That way no one has to go looking for a bazillion threads.
Maybe we should just keep adding to this one instead.
You’re welcome! Please check out my Thread for updates as well.
It would certainly save bandwidth.
If you’re going to start a new thread with that label, then please put a link to this one in it.
If you think that we should see if the mods could relabel this one, that would work too, since we’ve got so much ground covered already.
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