Posted on 06/24/2009 8:04:24 AM PDT by metmom
Within minutes, six-year-old Rubjit Thindal went from happily chatting in the back seat of the car to collapsing and dying in her father's arms.
"If we had known it was so serious, we would have called 911,'' Kuldip Thindal, Rubjit's distraught mother, said in Punjabi yesterday. "She just had a stomach ache -- she wasn't even crying.''
Rubjit was pronounced dead at hospital barely 24 hours after showing signs of a fever. Later, doctors told her parents she had the H1N1 influenza virus. She is believed to be the youngest person in Canada with the virus to have died.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.guelphmercury.com ...
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.”...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organisation
http://www.isria.com/pages/28_June_2009_27.htm
Transcript of the meeting’s beginning:
Vladimir Putin: Ms Chan, colleagues. We are happy to welcome you in Moscow.
Our relations with the World Health Organisation have been developing for a long time and very successfully. We support all of the WHO initiatives and efforts in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other socially dangerous diseases. We consider it extremely important to jointly combat alcoholism, smoking, and other habits that have a direct negative effect on people’s health.
We welcome your efforts in the struggle against infectious diseases threatening the lives of millions, such as the effort against the A(H1N1) flu type. We take into consideration your warnings and analysis, and take requisite measures at the national level.
[snip]
We intend to continue to expand these efforts. The Russian Government is drafting a concept for long-term healthcare development until 2020, to be based on state guarantees of free medical assistance. We highly value our cooperation with the World Health Organisation, and I am confident that your visit will boost relations between Russia and the WHO.
Margaret Chan (as translated): Mr Putin, it is a great honour for me to be in Russia.
I would like to remind you about our first meeting, during the G8 summit in St Petersburg in 2006. Our next meeting took place in Davos in January 2009. I have been waiting for this meeting impatiently, seeking to promote cooperation between Russia and the World Health Organisation.
I would like to thank you personally for your efforts in healthcare. I have listened to your speeches and watched your progress in the implementation of the national healthcare programme. I can tell you that what we see in Russia is called return on investment, or investment profitability, in the financial world.
[snip]
I would like to highlight Russia’s role in global healthcare. I know that Russia is working to create an A(H1N1) vaccine. Despite the global downturn, I believe that Russia has the research capability and requisite potential to create vaccines and other antiviral substances.
Moreover, I would like to praise your efforts not just in Russia but also in the CIS. As far as I know, you are helping your neighbours with healthcare, which is highly commendable.
I would also like to speak about the importance of global efforts in helping some African and Asian countries. I believe that the World Health Organisation can support these efforts, and we can discuss Russia’s contribution to this work. I hope we will continue our fruitful cooperation.
And one more thing I would like to mention: I worked with the staff of the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development, and I can tell you that you have a wonderful gender balance. You appoint women to the right posts.
Mr Putin, in concluding this opening address I would like to thank you personally for your assistance and support. I think the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding, which you have approved, will help us to determine potential venues of cooperation between the WHO and Russia.
I would like to point out two things in this respect. First, this memorandum would facilitate the implementation of Russia’s development concept until 2020. And second, it would promote cooperation at the regional and international levels.
After we sign the Memorandum of Understanding, we can hold technical discussions on relevant issues.
I would like to say again that it is a great honour for me to meet with you in Moscow and to discuss issues of mutual interest.
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.
Interesting H1N1 Swine flu article Ping :))
Not good.
Here is a Sports Illustrated article about ball players who are presumed to be ill with influenza:
http://m.si.com/news/tr/tr/detail/1701867;jsessionid=3474C5BEFD4EF74336174DB0BFF4D93A.cnnsilive10i
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:16 am Post subject:
Roche says 1st case of H1N1 resistance to Tamiflu
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSWEA879220090629?rpc=401&;
Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:54am EDT
ZURICH, June 29 (Reuters) - A patient with H1N1 influenza in Denmark showed resistance to Roche Holding AG’s (ROG.VX) antiviral Tamiflu, a company executive said on Monday.
“This is the first case we have of it in H1N1,” David Reddy, Roche’s pandemic taskforce leader, told reporters on a conference call. (Reporting by Sam Cage)
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That didn't take long. I wonder if the patient survived.
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/
first mutation of tamiflu resistance in Denmark
Dansker den første med H1N1-mutation
http://www.bt.dk/danmark/dansker-den-foerste-med-h1n1-mutation
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06290903/H274Y_Swine_Roche.html
Roche Comments on Tamiflu Resistant H1N1 Raise Concerns
Recombinomics Commentary 16:11
June 29, 2009
While receiving the drug, the patient appeared to develop resistance to it,” David Reddy, Roche’s pandemic taskforce leader, told reporters on a conference call on the Danish case. “This is the first report we have of it in H1N1.”
The Danish patient, who has since recovered, was taking the drug as a prevention to avoid the contraction of swine flu, Reddy said. He was probably already infected with the virus, and resistance to the drug emerged because he was given the lower prevention dose
The above comments in media reports following the Roche conference call raise serious doubts about the claim that the osletamivir (Tamiflu) resistance arose in the Danish female patient because if prophylactic treatment. The patient had been exposed to an H1N1 positive contact outside of Denmark and was given a prophylactic dose of Tamiflu as a precaution. She subsequently developed symptoms and recovered when treated with Relenza.
However, there has been no data presented to show that wild type H1N1 infected the Danish patient or the patient who infected the Danish patient. Moreover, the use of the qualifiers “appear” and “probably” suggests that no such data exists.
Patients have been know to develop resistance in response to treatment. In Vietnam, a contact (sister) of a patient developed resistance at two NA positions (H274Y and N294S), which are two changes known to confer resistance and which were not detected in H5N1 from her brother, supporting development of resistance in response to treatment of his sister.
However, in the Danish case, no such evidence was presented. If resistance was present in the contact that infected the Danish case, the result would have been as described, The prophylactic treatment would have had little effect, and the resistant H1N1 would still have been sensitive to Relenza.
Therefore, the report of Tamiflu resistance (which was probably H274Y) raises concerns that resistance will spread via recombination, as happened fro H274Y in seasonal flu. Initially, the polymorphism was rare. It was first in clade 2C in China, followed by clade 1 in the US and UK, followed by clade 2B. In each sub-clade the polymorphism appeared on multiple genetic backgrounds in the absence of Tamiflu treatment.
The hitch hiking led to an expansion of H274Y, and when it paired up with HA A193T, the subclade expanded and both acquistions became fixed.
The large reservoir of H274Y in seasonal flu provides donor sequences for H274Y acquisition in swine H1N1. The report of resistance in the Danish patient raises concerns that the resistance can rapidly spread under the section pressure of Tamiflu treatment.
Information on the contact location for the Danish patient, as well as sequence data on samples collected before and after treatment would be useful. However, since some media reports suggest she was on prophylactic Tamiflu for five days prior to symptoms, there probably is no isolate collected prior to treatment. However, H1N1 from her contact would be useful, although the existence of such material is doubtful, based on the qualifiers in the Roche statements, as well as the failure to provide any hard data supporting the contention that the resistance developed in response to treatment in Denmark.
Absent such evidence, the resistance is likely to have developed prior to treatment, and represents an evolutionarily fit H1N1.
Sequence data from the patient will help trace this sub-clade to provide additional evidence on the likelihood that the resistance emerged in Denmark, which, at this point, appears to be doubtful.
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06290903/H274Y_Swine_Roche.html
I was telling my family about this type of thing when we went to the store a couple of months ago and no hand sanitizer was left on the shelves. Went to 4 stores - same results.
It is one thing when the available hand sanitizer runs out. It is another thing entirely when the available respirators/ hospital beds run out.
I agree with you 100 %
Thanks for the update.
It’s beginning to look like this is the one stop shopping thread for information on swine flu.
DVDMom is doing a great job of posting the updates and it keeps there from being a bazillion swine flu threads.
Thanks for the links.
Ignorant bastards. If it were my family member they just sentenced to death I'd be suing the hell out of them. Those morons will fit in well with Obama's new healthcare system.
Your article says to stock up on prescription meds. Are they talking about Tamaflu? How would I get that without a doctor’s prescription?
Your article says to stock up on prescription meds. Are they talking about Tamaflu? How would I get that without a doctor’s prescription?
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