2,000 Washington State Students Report Signs of Swine Flu

The New York Times ^ | Monday, September 7, 2009 | William Yardley

[MinorityRepublican]

SEATTLE — At least 2,000 students at Washington State University have reported symptoms of the H1N1 flu virus, university and local health officials said, in what appeared to be one of the largest outbreaks of the virus on a college campus.

“It’s real,” Sally Redman, a registered nurse who works in student health services at Washington State, said Saturday. “We’ve had a constant stream of people.”

So far, the cases at the university have been relatively mild, although at least two people in the area who are not students were hospitalized. The university, based in Pullman, in eastern Washington near the Idaho border, has about 19,000 students at its main campus.

Ms. Redman said the outbreak appeared about Aug. 21, during fraternity and sorority rush but before classes started. After that, she said, “it was rampant.”

As many as 200 students a day have visited or called student health services, reporting sore throats, fevers as high as 104 degrees, muscle aches and coughs.

[TNdandelion]

I don't know that they are testing specifically for H1N1, however, seasonal flu doesn't normally start until much later.

I'm not a medical person but from what I've seen the last few weeks...some kind of flu is going around and it has shown up a heck of a lot sooner than it normally does. I normally wait and get my flu shot in Nov. Me and the kids got ours last week.

[Awestruck]

to get us used to this sort of thing...its already mandatory for the military...and there have been lawsuits because of it..

[cranked]

2,000? That is nearly the entire campus?

[spokeshave]

"Vitamin D, Benadryl, Zyrtec OTC, Ibuprofen, lots of water and fruit juice/ gatorade. Try to pee a lot to cycle fluids."

Is this what 0bambi was trying to tell us the other day....

when he said: all wee weed out?

[Old Forester]

“2,000? That is nearly the entire campus?”

There were around 11,000 when I went there during the ‘70s, now there are nearly 18,000.

[Brugmansian]

The origins of the flu was deadly in Mexico City but eventually it just seemed to tapered off?

The Crude H1N1 death rate has risen since the first of June. This is a not the regular seasonal flu. Most people shrug it off so many say its no big deal but it is. 10 year old in Alaska was sent home by the school nurse last Thursday around noon. Friday night he was dead. A 41 year old man from NZ who flew to Canada for Worldskills died of it. He was training for a marathon.

Helen Branswell of Canada's Globe and Mail is filing some of the best reports. She wrote on Sept 1st:

“I've never seen this,” says Dr. Paul Hebert, editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal and an intensive care physician in Ottawa who has treated several of these patients. “As an ICU doctor, it's very, very, very rare I can't deliver enough oxygen to someone to keep him alive. They die of other things, right? They die because their organs fail.” “In this case, we can barely oxygenate them.”

Some patients are being put on ECMO machines (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)--artificial lungs. Their lungs are so full of snot that putting them on mechanical ventilation causes their lungs to blow up. The death rate isn't a 1918 but it is approaching 1958. But what is really going to cause problems are not enough ECMO and other equipment. ICUs in New Zealand and Australia were beyond their max. And they don't have near the social pathologies which flood, on a daily basis, our emergency rooms.

[Brugmansian]

What’s the theory behind why the government would be looking for mandatory immunization?

Good question. I don't get why some claim it is a threat. Some reasons why I can't see it happening:

1. There isn't and won't be enough vaccine for all those who want it.
2.The logistics are daunting. American can't count who is even here. Where are the people going to come from to fan out from Nome to Key West to Bar Harbor and San Diego to give everyone a shot?
3. Influenza A travels so fast, everyone who is going to get it will have gotten it by the time mandatory vaccinations were set up.

[donna]

I just remembered this:

The First Bioterrorism Attack in America – Oregon 1984

To keep anti-Rajneesh voters from reaching the polls, sannyasins sprayed salmonella on the salad bars at several popular restaurants in The Dalles, sending 750 people to the hospital with severe food poisoning. It was “the only case of germ warfare against a whole American city,”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/566102/posts

Rise and Fall of Rajneeshpuram
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cDgOf2Om28

[wideminded]

The First Bioterrorism Attack in America – Oregon 1984

Ma Anand Sheela, Rajneesh's assistant, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the food poisoning and several other serious crimes including attempted murder. I just checked to see if she recently got out of jail. Not only is she out, but for some reason she was released after only 2 1/2 years!

"The Oregonian is a unique species of idiot." - Rajneesh

[BagCamAddict]

589 deaths in the US so far from H1N1, as of Aug 29th CDC reporting.

[Thunder 6]

No wonder they are feeling sick...Has anyone ever BEEN to Pullman? Yikes!

Go Huskies!

Regards,

[devolve]

ObamaCare CRISIS Setup?

593 - TOTAL Swine Flu deaths Jan 1 - Sept 3 2009 - CDC

36,000-55,000 - TOTAL all Flu-Related deaths/yr
1990s - CDC

Hmmmmmmmm.

[Borax Queen]

And the “national emergency” begins.

Rahm and the others sure are hoping, aren't they?!!!

[torchthemummy]

At least 2,000 students at Washington State University have reported symptoms of the H1N1 flu virus, university and local health officials said, in what appeared to be one of the largest outbreaks of the virus on a college campus.

....As many as 200 students a day have visited or called student health services, reporting sore throats, fevers as high as 104 degrees, muscle aches and coughs.

I have no doubt there is some flu strains out there. Still, having flu-like symptoms does not an H1V1 outbreak make.

But what I am really getting tired of is the constant barrage of nice, easy-to-digest numbers like 2,000 and 200. Just a week or so ago it was reported that at 10% of NYC residents had had the H1V1 flu. Not 8% or 11% but a nice easy number like 10 that even high school graduates could understand ("Out of every 10 people 1 got the H1V1 flu"). About three weeks ago it was the head of WHO saying 1/3 of the world population would possibly get the virus. This is BS until we have some real numbers that can be backed up.

[torchthemummy]

At least 2,000 students at Washington State University have reported symptoms of the H1N1 flu virus, university and local health officials said, in what appeared to be one of the largest outbreaks of the virus on a college campus.

....As many as 200 students a day have visited or called student health services, reporting sore throats, fevers as high as 104 degrees, muscle aches and coughs.

I have no doubt there is some flu strains out there. Still, having flu-like symptoms does not an H1V1 outbreak make.

But what I am really getting tired of is the constant barrage of nice, easy-to-digest numbers like 2,000 and 200. Just a week or so ago it was reported that at 10% of NYC residents had had the H1V1 flu. Not 8% or 11% but a nice easy number like 10 that even high school graduates could understand ("Out of every 10 people 1 got the H1V1 flu"). About three weeks ago it was the head of WHO saying 1/3 of the world population would possibly get the virus. This is BS until we have some real numbers that can be backed up.

[torchthemummy]

At least 2,000 students at Washington State University have reported symptoms of the H1N1 flu virus, university and local health officials said, in what appeared to be one of the largest outbreaks of the virus on a college campus.

....As many as 200 students a day have visited or called student health services, reporting sore throats, fevers as high as 104 degrees, muscle aches and coughs.

I have no doubt there is some flu strains out there. Still, having flu-like symptoms does not an H1V1 outbreak make.

But what I am really getting tired of is the constant barrage of nice, easy-to-digest numbers like 2,000 and 200. Just a week or so ago it was reported that at 10% of NYC residents had had the H1V1 flu. Not 8% or 11% but a nice easy number like 10 that even high school graduates could understand ("Out of every 10 people 1 got the H1V1 flu"). About three weeks ago it was the head of WHO saying 1/3 of the world population would possibly get the virus. This is BS until we have some real numbers that can be backed up.

[torchthemummy]

At least 2,000 students at Washington State University have reported symptoms of the H1N1 flu virus, university and local health officials said, in what appeared to be one of the largest outbreaks of the virus on a college campus.

....As many as 200 students a day have visited or called student health services, reporting sore throats, fevers as high as 104 degrees, muscle aches and coughs.

I have no doubt there is some flu strains out there. Still, having flu-like symptoms does not an H1V1 outbreak make.

But what I am really getting tired of is the constant barrage of nice, easy-to-digest numbers like 2,000 and 200. Just a week or so ago it was reported that at 10% of NYC residents had had the H1V1 flu. Not 8% or 11% but a nice easy number like 10 that even high school graduates could understand ("Out of every 10 people 1 got the H1V1 flu"). About three weeks ago it was the head of WHO saying 1/3 of the world population would possibly get the virus. This is BS until we have some real numbers that can be backed up.

[torchthemummy]

Sorry about the triple post - had connection issues.

[Stayingawayfromthedarkside]

Sorry,I didn’t realize that. Forgive me for being so cynical, especially with the Democrats in charge these days. They like to make a crisis out of everything.