Posted on 07/05/2009 6:11:02 PM PDT by TaraP
The UN's top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide is now unstoppable. World Health Organization head Margaret Chan added that the holding of the meeting in Cancun showed confidence in Mexico, which has been hard hit. The WHO says most H1N1 cases are mild, with many people recovering unaided. As the summit opened, the UK alone was projecting more than 100,000 new cases of H1N1 a day by the end of the summer. As the peak of the flu season approaches in South America, some areas have declared a public health emergency. El Salvador reported its first death from swine flu, a day after Paraguay reported its first fatality.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
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UK swine flu can no longer be containedGovernment moves to ‘treatment phase’ as health secretary says infection rate could reach 100,000 a day by end of August...
Swine flu is spreading so rapidly across Britain that there could be 100,000 new cases a day by the end of next month, the health secretary, Andy Burnham, said today.
The UK would immediately move to the “treatment phase” of its plan to combat swine flu, meaning doctors would no longer test for the H1N1 virus and urge anyone with symptoms to stay at home, Burnham told the House of Commons.
The first swine flu vaccine would be made available from August, with 60m doses available by the end of the year, he added.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/02/swine-flu-uk
I’m keeping my eye on this but I have noted that every death that I personally have read about indicates that the deceased succumbed to the flu but had some usually other severe health condition such as lung problem, etc. So right now I don’t think it’s a worry. The mutation is what we need to be watching...
I’m with you. Be aware but don’t panic.
**Be aware but don’t panic.**
as dangerous as the swine flu mid 70’s???
The swine flu “VACCINE” killed more people than the FLU DID!!!
***Any idea what Obammie the Commie is doing to protect the American public against this coming epidemic?***
Allow it to wipe out the “useless eaters”. Relieve financial stress on unemployment and Social Security benefits. Decrease the surplus population.
Hey! Wait! I resemble those! Oh Massa O! Save us with your elequence!
Ok, Sarc/off
There are cases of healthy people who died with no pre-exisiting health conditions . As stated below ...
Mexican swine flu victims were young, some healthy
Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:07pm EDT
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE55S6BS20090629
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Swine flu patients in Mexico were young and many were healthy before developing severe infections, doctors reported on Monday.
The first detailed studies of the outbreak of a new strain of H1N1 influenza show the epidemic in Mexico resembled the early stages of other pandemics, and showed there is no way yet to predict who will become severely ill from the virus.
The World Health Organization has confirmed 70,893 cases in the new H1N1 swine flu pandemic, with 311 deaths. However, U.S. health officials last week said there were likely at least a million cases there alone. Iraq, Lithuania, Monaco and Nepal all confirmed their first cases on Monday.
Dr. Rogelio Perez-Padilla of the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases in Mexico City and colleagues studied 18 H1N1 cases in March and April, more than half of them aged 13 to 47.
Only eight had pre-existing medical conditions that might worsen their flu infection, they wrote — including high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma and sleep apnea. Seven died — all of multiple organ failure.
The doctors said 90 percent of the seriously ill patients were under 50 — in contrast to seasonal influenza, which causes mostly mild illness in people under the age of 65.
“Most of our patients were young to middle-aged and had previously been healthy,” they wrote in their report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
“One contributing factor for death in our patients may have been delayed admission and delayed initiation of oseltamivir.”
Oseltamivir, sold by Roche AG under the brand name Tamiflu, can treat influenza, although Denmark reported the first case on Monday of swine flu resisting the drug’s effects.
“We did not find a factor that, before the onset of illness, predicted a worse outcome or death among our patients,” Perez-Padilla’s team wrote.
HEALTHCARE WORKERS
In addition, 22 of 190 healthcare workers who came close to the patients themselves got flu-like illness but were treated with Tamiflu and none got seriously ill.
Dr. Stefano Bertozzi of the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico and colleagues studied the cases of 2,155 people who developed severe pneumonia from H1N1 infection in March and April, 821 who had detailed hospital records and 100 who died.
They found that 87 percent of those who died were aged 5 to 59, and 71 percent of severe cases were among people 5 to 59, compared to a usual average of 32 percent for seasonal flu.
“This wave of pneumonia is reminiscent of the initial phase of pandemics from the last century,” they wrote.
Health experts have speculated that people over the age of 52 have some protection from the new virus because it may resemble a strain of H1N1 flu that circulated before 1957.
“Influenza A H1N1 abruptly disappeared from humans in 1957 and was replaced by a new reassortant virus that combined genes from the H1N1 strain and an avian virus,” Dr. Shanta Zimmer and Dr. Donald Burke of the University of Pittsburgh wrote in a second report in the same journal. Flu viruses frequently swap genes in a process called reassortment.
(Editing by Vicki Allen)
Swine flu hitting young, healthy adults hardest (Canada)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/swine-flu-hitting-young-healthy-adults-hardest/article1203826/
The young and healthy who feel invincible from the H1N1 “swine flu” influenza pandemic may not be as bulletproof as they think, warn public health experts.
Nearly two-thirds of Canadians hospitalized due to swine flu, and half of those who have died, had no underlying health conditions.
Experts do not yet understand why the new strain affects some healthy people so severely, ravaging their lungs with an aggressive pneumonia and forcing them to spend weeks in hospital, attached to breathing machines.
“They are ending up on ventilators and it can last from weeks to months,” said Michael Gardam, director of infectious diseases at the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion. “I would like people to be concerned about H1N1, without panicking. More concerned than they are about seasonal flu.”
A new study tracking the epidemic in Mexico also found the flu strain hits those between the ages of 20 and 50 the hardest, with a higher death rate than other age groups
That’s why the WHO wants panic. Panic means money to them and to Obama, panic means power.
The thing to remember that for every single case reported there are many many more who never even see a doctor so those cases don’t get reported. Those unreported cases are people who recover and get on with their lives with no problem.
The main epidemic here is the overuse of the terms epidemic and pandemic.
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Demonized ??? Just who forced them to come here illegally ???
What do you care about what Geraldo has said ???
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Socialized health care?
Who?
Praise Jesus we have a “community organizer” as our president!!!
Turning to the summit venue, the WHO chief added: "Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit."
These bureaucrats do love their junkets. No teleconferencing for them!
” the WHO chief added: “Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.””
Safe? lol! Yeah, if you like daily beheadings, kidnappings, murders, narcoterror...they are the capitol of all three in the world, arriving daily to the USA
See the reports from keyword “NAFBPO”
I don’t know ... who ?
Tell you to invest in Tylonol?
Which is why me and my family won’t be taking it.
Ok, that last part has me a wee bit worried. This sounds strangely like the Spanish Flu.
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