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Originally posted by xoxo stacie
Another thing to note is that when this thing was spreading in the start it was in the 80's-90's where I am for a week the week before it was the mid 70"s-low 80's! From what all of these doc's on the new's have been saying it is supposed to stop in Summer....kinda funny we had summer conditions for close to 3 weeks before we got a 4 day long cold front, we are now going to start heating up again. I just hope they are right because it is spread here alot worse than what they are saying.
Originally posted by pluckynoonez
Alex Jones' channel on youtube has been suspended if no one knew. I just found out today.
Originally posted by severdsoul
reply to post by xoxo stacie
If cold weather will trigger it, thats not good, we have had snow on the 4th of july before. Nothing unusual for here.
One easter we got snowed in.
[edit on 4-5-2009 by severdsoul]
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Canada records first serious H1N1 flu case
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 4 (Reuters) - An Alberta girl has been hospitalized in Canada's first serious case of the H1N1 flu, as the country's confirmed cases climbed to 140, health officials said on Monday.
Officials had expected to discover people suffering more serious effects from the virus as the disease progresses, even though all other cases in Canada have involved only mild symptoms.
"The news of this first more severe case, although disconcerting, is not surprising, and it does not change the course of action were are taking," said Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canada's chief public health officer.
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Permanent watch on pigs may be needed for flu: WHO expert
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CRUCIAL global surveillance of animal disease could be revised to include swine influenza in pigs because of its potential risk to human health, a World Health Organisation expert says.
Unlike bird flu, swine flu is not among animal diseases that have to be notified to international authorities. Quite a common illness in pigs, it has simply been treated as a purely farming issue.
Swine flu had "dropped below the radar of animal health authorities" because it was regarded as "benign", WHO food safety scientist Peter Ben Embarek said.
But he warned that the appearance of a new influenza A(H1N1) virus among humans in Mexico and the United States over the past month had highlighted the public health side of the equation.
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WHO uncertain about declaring flu pandemic
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Mon May 4, 2009 5:26pm EDT
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization is keeping a close eye on the spread of the H1N1 virus outside North America as it tries to decide whether to declare a pandemic, a top official said on Monday.
Keiji Fukuda, WHO acting assistant director-general, said most of the people infected in Europe and Asia to date had been to Mexico, the outbreak epicenter, and had not caught the virus from the community-at-large.
It remains unclear when, or whether, the United Nations agency will raise its pandemic alert to the top of its 6-point scale and activate emergency response plans to fight the virus known popularly as "swine flu."