Archive for May 9th, 2009
Thank God they’ve brought in a Swine Flu Tsar, Ian Dalton, to deal with this ever-deepening threat to all of humanity:”The appointment came as the number of UK cases of the H1N1 virus reached 28. … for Disease Control and Prevention reported 109 confirmed cases of the virus in 11 states on Thursday (April 30), and the World Health Organization raised its alert level on swine flu to Phase 5. The highest alert level, Phase 6, indicates that a pandemic is in progress. …
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Swine Flu, Virus, Mexico, Pandemic, Health
Thank God they’ve brought in a Swine Flu Tsar, Ian Dalton, to deal with this ever-deepening threat to all of humanity:”The appointment came as the number of UK cases of the H1N1 virus reached 28. … for Disease Control and Prevention reported 109 confirmed cases of the virus in 11 states on Thursday (April 30), and the World Health Organization raised its alert level on swine flu to Phase 5. The highest alert level, Phase 6, indicates that a pandemic is in progress. …
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Swine Flu, Virus, Mexico, Pandemic, Health
This may become a pandemic , and it may become 1 fast. So stay cautious and alert . Check in with ur local news at least once a day and see if theres some updates about the flu and if anyone in ur state has become at risk. … There’s no CF rate for the H1N1 ( swine flu ) yet. The fear is a low rate like the Spanish flu in 1918 (2.5%). It actually kills more people since the virus can be spread from 1 person to another. About 100 million people were killed in 1918 & 1919. …
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How bad is swine flu and is it anything to do with bird flu?
Regular swine flu is a contagious respiratory disease, caused by a type-A influenza virus that affects pigs. The current strain, A( H1N1 ), is a new variation of an H1N1 virus — which causes seasonal flu outbreaks in humans — that also …
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Critical Alert: The Swine Flu Pandemic – Fact or Fiction? « iseekTruth
Those toying with the idea of self-infection with the current H1N1 swine flu strain now circling the globe doubt there will be enough effective vaccine to stop the virus if it returns in the fall, especially if it swaps genetic material with … Michael Olesen, chief of infection control at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis and an expert on flu pandemics , said he was not planning to seek out infection but now was “taking a passive approach to getting infected. …
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covertress: Debating the Wisdom of ‘Swine Flu Parties'
The targeting of previously healthy young adults repeats data from 1918, as does the movement of swine H1N1 into a human population (as seen in the list below). Concerns that the virus will recombine with seasonal flu and acquire key changes …. One must not give H1N1 the opportunity to mix with other viruses. That is why we are on alert ,” “We have to be very careful. No one can predict what is going to happen when countries in the south have flu peaks and this new one …
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Pandemic Information News: Swine H1N1 Fatalities in Mexico
Mittal and collaborators at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will use a method he developed for dealing with the H5N1 bird flu to accelerate work on the H1N1 swine flu . They will use a common cold virus to carry a …
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Pandemic Information News: Swine flu will devastate Africa
” Flu viruses are very unpredictable, very deceptive…We should not be overconfident. One must not give H1N1 the opportunity to mix with other viruses. That is why we are on alert ,” “We have to be very careful. …
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Pandemic Information News: Swine Flu Virus Lacks Killer Traits of …
In the United States, the total number of confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus , as swine flu is officially called, nearly doubled to 1639 from the day before, with reports coming from 43 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. … Dr. Sylvie Briand, acting director of the Global Influenza Program for the World Health Organization, stated that the agency will remain at pandemic alert level 5. This is still one step away from its highest level. …
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Swine Flu UPDATE:WHO Reports 2500 H1N1 Cases In 25 Countries With …
One must not give H1N1 the opportunity to mix with other viruses. That is why we are on alert ,” “We have to be very careful. No one can predict what is going to happen when countries in the south have flu peaks and this new one arrives … who have not been to Mexico) is small but because of that I would say that we have not seen the full situation or the whole picture of what is happening. The situation is evolving and the virus is changing” Dr. Niman’s Map of H1N1 Cases …
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Pandemic Information News: Canadian farm culls 500 swine flu …