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Originally posted by Cameoii
Don't know how long I'll be on, but I am trying to do my part:
A hospital official says a school assistant principal has become the first New York City death linked to the swine flu virus.
Houston Chronicle
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Pulaski County's coroner says investigators are probing whether a 28-year-old offshore oil worker's death may have been caused by the swine flu.
Coroner Garland Camper tells The Associated Press that the man died Saturday morning at a Little Rock hospital after suffering from flulike symptoms for six weeks. Camper says samples taken from the man tested positive for several strains of flu, requiring his office to explore the possibility swine flu played a part in the death.
Pulaski County Coroner Garland Camper said the 28-year-old went to the hospital Friday night for treatment and died early Saturday morning. Camper said tests came back positive for more than one strain of the flu, requiring his office to explore whether swine flu played a part in the death.
In Bangkok, a medical expert revealed the influenza typeA (H1N1) virus was changing its structure rapidly.
"This means there's a risk of it mutating and becoming resistant to available drugs," said Prof Dr Thiravat Hemachudha.
He heads the World Health Organisation's Collaborating Centre for Research and Training on Viral Zoonoses at Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Medicine.
He said structural change in other strains has taken years, not months like with this virus.
"So relevant authorities must be fully prepared regarding drugs and vaccines against type A (H1N1)," he said.
17 May 2009 -- As of 06:00 GMT, 17 May 2009, 39 countries have officially reported 8480 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection.
TORONTO -- Spread of H1N1 flu in North America may not dampen down in coming weeks as was first expected, some health officials and flu experts are now suggesting.
Some are now planning for the possibility the new virus may continue to trigger infections into the summer, not petering out in the way seasonal flu strains typically do as temperatures rise in the Northern Hemisphere.
"This is what worries me," says Dr. Arnold Monto, an influenza expert at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health.
"We are seeing a fair amount of circulation of the swine flu virus. And I'm not yet convinced that it's going to go away completely."
"It may dampen down a bit as schools close. But I think we're still seeing increasing transmission in the U.S. And I think in addition you have far more transmission in Canada than some people are saying -- it's not just imported cases and circles around imported cases."
Monto's concern is echoed by Dr. Allison McGeer, an influenza expert at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital.
Worse, there is no centralized regulatory body that oversees bio-labs or their work — 17 federal agencies are involved in biological research in some way, but no single agency is tasked with tracking and managing the risks.
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Lack of oversight means lack of policing, which often leads to underreporting of potentially fatal accidents. Labs are required by law to report mishaps with select agents immediately to the CDC, but that doesn't always happen.
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The CDC then dispatched investigators who uncovered a host of other violations, including unauthorized experiments, failure to report three other infections of Q fever, failure to have all technicians vetted by the FBI, and missing pathogens and infected animals. "Unfortunately, the CDC's August investigation revealed not only shortcomings on Texas A&M's part, but also shortcomings on the part of CDC's own oversight," said Bart Stupak, chairman of the House Oversight and Investigations Committee. "It turns out that the CDC had inspected the very same Texas A&M lab prior to the disclosure of these incidents and found only minor problems."
Originally posted by Cameoii
A little more information about the death in AR. Still no confirmation of swine flu:
Pulaski County Coroner Garland Camper said the 28-year-old went to the hospital Friday night for treatment and died early Saturday morning. Camper said tests came back positive for more than one strain of the flu, requiring his office to explore whether swine flu played a part in the death.
Swine Flu link probed in Ark. man's death
**Personal note: I went to memorial services for my Grandfather today. My cousin is a preacher. He told us that he had been in the hospital every day this week to provide comfort to those in his congregation that were hospitalized with the flu. The lady he saw before the services today has had COPD for years but coped with it well until she cought the flu this week. Her family has now been told she may not make it through tonight.
TOKYO (Kyodo)-- The number of cases of new flu infections in Japan reached 129 as 33 more infections were confirmed, according to Kyodo News calculations.
Prime Minister Taro Aso called for calm Monday amid the rapid spread of a new influenza in Japan. As of the time he made the comments, 92 infections had been confirmed in the government's official tally.
Aso said the Japanese government has no plans to ask citizens to refrain from holding meetings or scale down corporate activity.
He made the remarks at a meeting of the government task force on the H1N1 influenza epidemic.
Originally posted by antmar
reply to post by Aeons
I can put it even more simply. MSM report only what they're told to report - they're just propoganda puppets with TPTB pulling all the strings.
More at Link...
Osaka governor asks health minister to relax measures against swine flu
mdn.mainichi.jp...
Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto called Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe to request that guidelines to relax measures against swine flu be issued, citing the possibility that current steps could bring city functions to a halt, Hashimoto revealed at a press conference on Sunday.