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Posted on 02/09/2009 3:41:05 PM PST by Velveeta
20 suspected swine flu cases reported in Brazil
Suspected swine flu cases in Central Massachusetts
30 Suspected Swine Flu Cases In Wisconsin, Await Test Results
BreakingNewsAir Canada and Air Canada Vacations will suspend all operations to Cancun, Cozumel and Puerto Vallarta until June 1, 2009.
We should be doing this too.
Patient Zero Identified in Mexican Flu Outbreak?
...Until now, the first flu death confirmed by Mexican authorities had been a woman in the southern state of Oaxaca, who died on April 13. But Health Secretary Cordova on Monday “suggested an earlier timeline for documented swine flu cases,” the Associated Press is reporting.
“Cordova said tests now show that a 4-year-old boy contracted the disease at least two weeks earlier neighboring Veracruz state, where a community has been protesting pollution from a large pig farm,” the AP says. “The farm is run by Granjas Carroll de Mexico, a joint venture 50 percent owned by Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, Inc.”
Company officials said there were no “clinical signs or symptoms” swine influenza in the vast herds anywhere in Mexico, “But local residents are convinced they were sickened by air and water contamination from pig waste,” AP says. “There was a widespread outbreak of a particularly powerful respiratory disease in the area early April, and some people reported being sick as early as February. Local health workers intervened in early April, sealing off the town of La Gloria and spraying to kill off flies they said were swarming through their homes.”
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Felon James Ujaama is expected to be the star witness in a terrorism-related trial in U.S. District Court in New York. Ujaama will testify for the first time about a small group of militant Muslims in Seattle who went from commandeering a small mosque in the Central District to becoming entangled in an alleged international terrorism plot.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009127495_ujaama27m.html
Per Fox, 2 more cases in Connecticut and 2 in South Carolina.
Chertoff says if Mexico had been able to surround the ill cases right in the beginning they would have been able to stop this. Not able to secure the border. High cost to the economy blah blah blah.
I believe I heard today that there are 50 million antiviral doses available = since there are 300 million people I wonder who will be left out if this goes ‘viral’
“Thirteen fourth grade students from a Pittsburg elementary school were either sent home or called in sick Tuesday with flu-like symptoms, prompting the district to alert county health officials due to swine flu concerns, the superintendent said.
“The students — one who had a relative from Mexico visiting — all attended the same class at Highlands Elementary School, 4141 Harbor St. No cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Contra Costa County, but health officials predict it will happen.”
http://www.mercurynews.com/twitter/ci_12248023?source=rss
“A 16-year-old San Jose girl was diagnosed with Santa Clara County’s first likely case of swine flu on Tuesday, as the Bay Area added a total of three potential cases to the growing epidemic that has stricken people in at least nine countries.
“The girl, who is believed to have become infected while traveling in Southern California, suffered only mild symptoms and is recovering at home, in voluntary isolation.”
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12245969
“Marin became the first Bay Area County to report documented cases of swine flu infection after two San Rafael residents became sick, county health officials reported Tuesday morning. Dr. Fred Schwartz, the county’s public health officer, said that a 60-year-old woman and her 20-month-old granddaughter both got the flu after a trip to Mexico.
“The two were members of two families who traveled together for a family affair in Mexico that included a brief stop at the Mexico City airport.” http://www.mercurynews.com/twitter/ci_12246291?source=rss
KIRKLAND, Wash. -- A Washington state company is being credited with being the first to sound the alarm about the swine flu epidemic. "We're sort of like the fire tower where they're looking for the few wisps of smoke so you send people in when it's a smoldering fire instead of waiting until it's got half the Cascades," said Veratect CEO Bob Hart.
Veratect Corp. tracks global unrest and relays early detection warnings to its clients, ranging from terrorist activity to 200 different diseases. The company uses information from tens of thousands of sources, including local health departments, aid workers and media reports. "This is like a weather system for infectious diseases around the world," explained Dr. James M. Wilson, the CTO for Veratect.
Dr. Wilson said Veratect first traced what looked like the swine flu to Mexico at the end of March. Then, on April 6th, the team alerted the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization. On April 16th, Veratect issued a second alert. And by April 20th, with the disease spreading, the company called the CDC directly. "I am very concerned. The indicators are very similar to a lot of other major influenza events of the past like the 1968 pandemic," Dr. Wilson said.
"We literally got on the phone to the CDC and said to their emergency operations center, ‘we see this happening, you really need to look at it,’" Hart added. “At that point they started looking at it." Eighteen days after Veratect’s initial report, the CDC and WHO issued their first warnings. The company’s database is now deluged with suspected swine flu cases from all over the world.
Dr. Wilson said there was one on common denominator: "What this proves to is we need a global early warning system. This could be unpredictable in its effects."
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_042809_news_swine_flu_detection.11c3eb86d.html
Just heard on the local news that a toddler has died here in Texas from the H1N1 flu.
Swine flu: toddler in United States becomes first death outside Mexico
A 23-month-old child has died of swine flu in Texas, in the United States, the first death outside Mexico caused by the virus.
29 Apr 2009
A US government official confirmed that the toddler died from the H1N1 strain.
The death was disclosed as it was revealed that three more people in Britain are suffering from swine flu - a 12-year-old girl from Torbay and two adults, from London and Birmingham.
Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, told the Commons at Prime Minister’s Questions, that they were suffering from “mild symptoms”.
Meanwhile, the results of tests on 23 other British people showing symptoms of the flu were being awaited, and holidaymakers arriving home from Mexico described the panic from they had fled.
The results of the swine flu tests on 23 people in Scotland are expected later on Wednesday. A honeymooning couple from Falkirk who had recently returned from Mexico, have been confirmed as the country’s first cases.
Dozens of holidaymakers returning from Mexico, where the disease has killed about 160 people, continue to be tested for swine flu, with potential cases in Scotland, Wales, Wiltshire, Derbyshire and Essex.
Other tourists have spoken of their rush to leave the country. Karen Whitehouse, 22, and her boyfriend Alex Henney, 31, were so worried about contracting swine flu that they paid £1,300 each for a flight back from Mexico City to Heathrow, landing yesterday afternoon having cut short their two-week holiday after just five days.
Mr Hennney, a stockbroker from Clapham, said: “The people in Mexico were panic stricken. There was a woman whose neighbour had died of swine flu on the news, she was terrified but no doctor would go to see her and got no medicine. People were getting sick but ambulance crews were too terrified to take them to hospital.”
There are unconfirmed reports that three Mexican doctors have died after treating infected patients. More than 80 cases have been confirmed in other countries.
The first reported death in the United States from the swine flu outbreak was that of a 23-month-old Mexican toddler who fell ill in Brownsville and was transported for treatment in Houston, where the child died Monday, city officials said.
Dr. David Persse, director of the city's emergency medical services, said the child was taken to a Brownsville hospital on April 13 and quickly got sicker, prompting transport to a Houston hospital. He said that hospital has asked not to be identified immediately, but that it would separately make a statement later today.
He learned of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmation of the virus before dawn this morning. Other people accompanying the child have shown no signs of illness, Persse said. "This doesn't really change the landscape here in Houston," he said. "We know it's in the U.S., it's in Texas and we need to take our own personal precautions."
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Gov Perry was just on HLN and said there are two more children in critical condition in Texas.
Ping to post 691 (Thanks, Oorang!)
So sad and terrible when a child is seriously ill no matter where or the circumstances. *sigh*
Swine flu confirmed in Lowell, Mass.
Federal officials have confirmed that Arizona has recorded its first case of the new swine flu
Italy flags up four new suspected cases of swine flu
More than 70 people quarantined as suspected cases of swine flu spread across Britain
Ping for update links at post 695.. (Thanks, Oorang!)
BreakingNewsURGENT — BNO News confirms the WHO will hold a 2000 GMT news conference to announce “new developments” regarding swine flu.
FYI
I heard about Elderberry extract when SARS and the Bird Flu were on the horizon. I do know it helps avoid colds. Read the literature attached.
http://www.altcancer.com/phyto/elderberry.htm#caution
schwarzeneggerWe’ve confirmed 14 cases of swine flu, 17 more probable.
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