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DVDMom is doing most of the work at this point.

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.

Updated June 28, 2009 | 12:32 a.m.

Former Bradford pitching star dies after 10-day illness

KENOSHA NEWS STAFF

Sam Schissel, who carried the Bradford baseball team to the WIAA Division-1 State championship in 2008, died at his Somers home Saturday morning after a 10-day illness.

He would have been 19 today.

Somers Rescue personnel responded to the home where he lived with his mother after she called about 9:36 a.m. and said he wasn’t breathing. Emergency personnel tried but couldn’t revive him. He was taken to Kenosha Hospital.

Kenosha Sheriff’s officials said reports were that Schissel had been suffering from flu- or pneumonia-like symptoms. The teen’s father, Jim Schissel, said his son had had a fever, had seen a doctor and had taken antibiotics. Jim Schissel said he didn’t know whether an autopsy was scheduled.

He also is survived by his mother, Nicolet Derose; a sister Talia Derose and a brother Michael Derose.

“This is just horrible,” Bradford baseball coach Matt LaBuda said. “I thought Sam was a super kid, a great team player. Anybody that played with him, got along with him. Sam had an infectious smile and personality. He was a guy that everybody wanted to be around.”

http://www.kenoshanews.com/news/former_bradford_pitching_star_dies_after_10day_illness_5488411.html

This article is very disturbing H1N1 victims can be shedding the virus before becoming symptomatic ...

And The Peel Board Of Health not telling parent’s when there is a case in the schools anymore :((

http://www.northpeel.com/news/article/71775
..”According to reports, Rubjit was pronounced dead at hospital barely 24 hours after showing signs of a fever. Afterwards, doctors told her parents she had the H1N1 influenza virus”...

..”In a letter that was sent home to parents, Peel Health officials noted Rubjit did not attend school symptomatic. ( SURE :((( )

“As such, the risk of transmission in H1N1 flu virus from this student to others in the school is very low,” Peel Health stated.

Dr. Eileen de Villa, Peel’s Associate Medical Officer of Health, would not provide an estimation of how many swine flu cases have been confirmed in Peel schools and suggested those kind of statistics are not collected by the health department.

“We don’t keep things by school boards, that’s not how you track things,” said de Villa.

The number of cases are constantly changing, she added.” No reason not to inform the public; the weather data changes, constantly” too!
“According to information, now updated on the region’s Web site weekly, there have been 559 confirmed cases of H1N1 flu virus in Peel.

On June 8, Peel Health stopped notifying school board when individual flu cases were discovered in local schools and the boards subsequently stopped sending letters to parents making them aware of such instances.
“This is something that was undertaken with a lot of consultation, it’s not something that was done as a quick decision,” said de Villa.”...

Very informative H1N1 article

Critics say ‘mild’ a misleading term for H1N1

Updated Sun. Jun. 28 2009 12:37 PM ET

The Canadian Press

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090628/mild_h1n1_090628/20090628?hub=Health

TORONTO — Officialdom’s mantra about H1N1 — “it is overwhelmingly mild” — might seem incongruous if we knew the number of children, teens and young adults in ICU beds right now alive only because a breathing machine has taken over for their ravaged lungs.

The heavy reliance on the word “mild “ could be creating a false impression of what is actually going on and what the world may face in coming months, some experts worry.

NC- Week at Camp Dixie canceled after campers, staff become ill

A Bladen County camp has suspended the summer season while campers and staff recover from flu-like symptoms, a spokeswoman said.

About 60 people showed signs of illness at Camp Dixie Friday, camp Director of Ministry Lana Jernigan said.

As a precaution, campers were sent home and the county Health Department was notified. The camp session that would have begun Monday was canceled so that workers can get well and facilities can be cleaned and disinfected, she said. Camp was to resume July 5.

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/5464793/

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.”

This is just not rocket science..

Canada:

With school out, flu cases drop

July 4, 2009
Theresa Boyle
HEALTH REPORTER
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/660830

Canada has seen a drop in swine flu cases, good news that’s being largely attributed to the fact school is out.

The Public Health Agency of Canada is undertaking surveillance of the H1N1 influenza virus by gathering information from several hundred “sentinel practitioners” across the country. They report weekly on the number of patients they see with influenza-like illness and this serves as an indicator for the number of new H1N1 cases countrywide.

For the week ending June 27, sentinel practitioners reported 34 consultations with patients for influenza-like illness for every 1,000 patients visits, down from 42 the week before, for a drop of 19 per cent. “This is good news. It happened the week that schools closed and I would guess that there is probably a reasonable link there,” Dr. Michael Gardam, director of infectious diseases prevention for the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, said yesterday.

He expects the numbers to continue to go down over the summer because students won’t be infecting each other in school and because influenza viruses tend not to like humid weather. Still, he said, it’s difficult to accurately predict where this virus is going.

“It’s reasonable to say that the dropping trend might continue if you believe the idea the schools have an important role to play in this. But I’m not putting any money down on it. ... It’s a pandemic virus and they do weird things,” he said.

Canada orders more ventilators for flu
Published: July 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM

TORONTO, July 6 (UPI) — Warnings that this fall’s swine flu season will be severe has prompted the Canadian government to order critical ventilators, officials say.

A spokesman for the Public Health Agency of Canada told Monday’s Toronto Globe and Mail the department is “currently in negotiations to purchase additional ventilators to increase its stockpile to 500.”

The pandemic has shown that Canadian swine flu victims are younger and sicker than elsewhere, and while the reasons for that are unknown, the government is moving to head off shortages of ventilators when the fall flu season hits, the newspaper said.

Medical experts said the first wave of the H1N1 virus that killed 29 people in Canada and forced the hospitalizations of 663 others exposed a shortage of ventilators for young victims.

“It appears that there is a sub-population of relatively young people who very rapidly develop severe illness with this virus,” Allison McGeer, an expert in infectious disease at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, told the Globe and Mail. “And they are not a large number, but they require very intensive ventilatory support with new advanced ventilators.”

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/07/06/Canada-orders-more-ventilators-for-flu/UPI-45311246892445/

deaths: 186 in the United States, 119 in Mexico, 60 Argentina, 36 in Canada, 21 Chile, 11 in Australia, 7 in Great Britain, 7 in Thailand, 5 in Uruguay, 3 in Costa Rica, 3 in New Zealand, 2 in Colombia, 2 in the Dominican Republic, 2 in Guatemala, 2 in Paraguay, 1 in Brazil, 1 in Brunei, 1 in El Salvador, 1 in Honduras, 1 in the Philippines and 1 in Spain.

> “Australian health authorities say a 57-year-old man who contracted swine flu is the country’s 11th death related to the virus.”
> “Northern Territory Health authorities today announced the first H1N1 Influenza 09-related death has occurred in the NT. A male patient in his early 50s died at the Royal Darwin Hospital earlier today [...] The man’s death brings the national toll of H1N1Influenza 09-related deaths to 12.” (Australian Government)
> 2 people in Dewsbury (UK) have died after catching swine flu.

>> More than 95,000 cases in 119 countries (over 33,000 in the USA).

> 1st case of of influenza A H1N1 confirmed in Libya.
> 1st case of of influenza A H1N1 confirmed in Reunion (one of the overseas départements of France located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar).
> 1st case of of influenza A H1N1 confirmed in Turks and Caicos Islands (a British Overseas Territory, situated about 600 miles southeast of Miami).

> 2,485 cases of influenza A H1N1 confirmed in Argentina.
> 2,272 cases of influenza A H1N1 confirmed in Thailand.
> 1,111 cases of influenza A H1N1 confirmed in Singapore.
> 1,059 cases of influenza A H1N1 confirmed in New Zealand.
> 371 cases of influenza A H1N1 confirmed in France.
> 359 cases of influenza A H1N1 confirmed in Malaysia.
> 145 cases of influenza A H1N1 confirmed in India.

>> http://flu-h1n1.over-blog.com/article-33494306.html
>> French version : http://grippe-a-h1n1.over-blog.com/article-33493658.html
>> Sources : http://grippe-a-h1n1.over-blog.com/article-33493709.html

Thirty-Four More Cases Of Swine Flu Confirmed In Central Texas

(July 7, 2009)—The Bell County Public Health District said it has confirmed 34 more cases of swine flu in Bell County, pushing the total number of cases in the county to 172 and the total number in Central Texas to more than 250.

The McLennan County Health District confirmed ten cases of swine flu Tuesday.

The most recent state data show 39 confirmed cases in Brazos County, two in Coryell County, one in Falls County, three in Milam County, 34 in Williamson County and two in Hamilton County.

Statewide, about 3,800 cases have been confirmed.

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http://www.kwtx.com/medicaldirectory/headlines/50148722.html

Stanislaus County’s first swine flu victim mourned by her family
H1N1 claims big sister helping to raise 4 siblings
By Ken Carlson
kcarlson@modbee.com

http://www.modbee.com/local/story/774011.html

After her mother’s death five years ago, Rosario Rivera took on the burden of watching her four younger siblings, making sure they ate breakfast and got to school.

The 21-year-old Ceres resident was attending school to become a medical assistant and better her life, proudly wearing the uniform the school gave her.