RI:
Fund created to defray funeral costs for swine-flu victim
9:20 AM Wed, Nov 04, 2009 | Permalink
Kate Bramson
http://newsblog.projo.com/2009/11/fund-created-to-defray-funeral.html
LINCOLN, R.I. — Melissa Gabriele knows funerals are expensive, and she was worried about how a friend she has known since junior high would pay for her daughter’s funeral after the girl died over the weekend.
The friend’s daughter — Skyla J. Reposa-Alves, a seventh-grader at Lincoln Middle School — had swine flu and was the second Rhode Island child to succumb to the virus within a week. Her funeral is set for Friday, which would have been Skyla’s 13th birthday. It will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the Bellows-Falso Funeral Chapel, 160 River Rd., Lincoln.
Gabriele has worked to set up a memorial fund to help defray the family’s costs for the funeral, she said. The Lincoln resident attended Lincoln Junior-Senior High School with Reposa-Alves’ mother, Carla Alves.
Gabriele asks people to contribute to the Skyla J. Reposa-Alves Memorial Fund at the Pawtucket Credit Union, 571 Smithfield Ave., Pawtucket, RI 02860.
Ukraine
Expert: improper use of Tamiflu more harm than help
04/Nov/09
The drug “Tamiflu” should be used only after consultation with the doctor, since its improper use can be very dangerous for human organism.
This belief in an interview to UNIAN made deputy chief state sanitary inspector of Poland Jan ORGELBRAND.
He noted that this drug can be used within 48 hours after virus infection, noting that one can not “abuse” with its use.
“Too frequent use leads to the fact that the virus ceases to react to it, which is very dangerous. After all, if the virus gets used to the drug, you have nothing left to treat influenza ...», - he said.
Ya ORGELBRAND also stressed that there is no sense to take the medicine after two days of the onset of the virus in the body.
“Moreover, the application after 48 hours only leads to the fact that the virus develops to the drug” immunity “”, - he said.
Director, Department of medicine and pharmacy of the Ministry of Health of Poland Artur Peleg told UNIAN that Tamiflu - is today the strongest drugs influenza infection, noting that they can treat not only the so-called “California” flu.
According to him, the drug was used in Poland for the treatment of patients as A/H1N1, and ordinary flu.
A. Peleg also noted that inappropriate use of Tamiflu could do more harm than help the patient. He called for a drug only after consultation with the doctor.
“If we want to preserve the effectiveness of this treatment, it is not necessary for them to abuse, it must be under medical supervision”, - he said.
http://www.unian.net/rus/news/news-345033.html