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Originally posted by shadowmantn
I was told by a medical professional who has treated eight confirmed cases of H1N1 that they all had mild tachycardia.
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I get irregular heart beats often. While I've been sick I can't say that the number of mine have increased or not. Just before symptoms showed, I was getting then more frequently and stronger for 3 or 4 days. That could be during an incubation period ....
Originally posted by winotka
reply to post by ecoparity
Hmm...ducks and geese. I was just checking Alaska's dept. of health and it was asking people to let them know if they find 5 or more dead birds. That reminded me of when the West Nile virus got to TN and the health dept. didn't even bother testing the dead bird by our house. They just went ahead and counted it positive.
I noticed on WV's dept. of health site there is a probable case. I also saw a scroll that Iceland confirmed its first case.
Originally posted by xoxo stacie
reply to post by FlyersFan
Originally posted by shadowmantn
I was told by a medical professional who has treated eight confirmed cases of H1N1 that they all had mild tachycardia.
reply:
I get irregular heart beats often. While I've been sick I can't say that the number of mine have increased or not. Just before symptoms showed, I was getting then more frequently and stronger for 3 or 4 days. That could be during an incubation period ....
A few weeks ago when I had a terrible asthma attack from the flu giving me bacterial bronchitis I went to the ER because frankly I couldn't hardly get any air in my lungs. While there the place was packed back into the over flow rooms and the waiting room was full. After being quarantined away from the severely sick people;I was listening to the doctors talking about a few of the patients who where having heart problems along the lines of murmurs etc.
They where trying to figure out what to do with them because first of all they where really sick and dehydrated; so giving them any kind of super strong heart medication could cause an even bigger problem. I am not sure what they decided to do about it because I told the doctor he needed my bed for someone else and I would rather leave than catch something else on top of what I already had. Luckily for me he understood my situation and agreed it would be best for me to take my medication home and use it there. He made my husband agree to bring me back fast if anything happened and off I went as fast as I could.(he used to drive a race car lol so they knew he could beat the ambulance)
I myself had some of those weird heart murmurs. But at first had chalked it up to the steroids as they can "hype" you up when combined with other asthma medicine. So hearing of people having a heart related problem with this flu does not surprise me at all. The person is already in a seriously weakened state. It isn't a stretch to think they could have a resulting heart murmur etc from it.
It is reported the true infected number is 30,000 in the United Kingdom. Not sure if any member has posted the article from The Independent today, but a leading scientists has confirmed the above figure
Originally posted by Cloudsinthesky
Originally posted by winotka
reply to post by ecoparity
Hmm...ducks and geese. I was just checking Alaska's dept. of health and it was asking people to let them know if they find 5 or more dead birds. That reminded me of when the West Nile virus got to TN and the health dept. didn't even bother testing the dead bird by our house. They just went ahead and counted it positive.
I noticed on WV's dept. of health site there is a probable case. I also saw a scroll that Iceland confirmed its first case.
Dead birds have been something I have been following since last fall before I had even bacame a member here on ATS............
My personal belief (that is until this noval virus hit the stage) was that somehow H5N1 would be released here in the states forcing a manditory vaccination by the government......not to bring up the whole Baxter H5N1 vaccination issue..........
Just over the past 8 months there have been many cases or events of birds dying by the masses in the US...........Washington DC 2/09, NJ 1/09, NC 08, California and the entire west coast.......
I know the CDC was actively involved and I was told to be very skeptical of the media reports...................
Just this past March a poultry farm in KY was detected of having H5N1...........All the birds on the farm were killed and no other farms were infected.........The media reports released stated it was a lessor strain of the virus unlike the deadly strains found in other countries..............
Just two days ago a member on one of the Dead Bird threads posted that he was seeing dead birds in KS.........
Speaking of China..............Just a couple months ago a very desturbing event took place that was not allowed to be covered by the media........In two seperate events......inbound flights that originated from China.......Two pasengers where detained/arrested for carrying in their suitcases live small birds.......It was around 100 birds........I believe they were canaries.......I just know the birds were not exotic birds that had any real value...........What makes this event more important is how these birds were packed.....Each bird was packed in very little individual containers to insure they would survive the trip..........
I was not privledged to any further information to the event........but made aware of the threat.....
I bring this information into this thread because I have a gut feeling that seeing dead birds by the masses, H5N1 and Noval H1N1 or what ever mutated strain will all be linked as time unfolds.........
I asked Hx3 the other day to add "dead birds" in his news feeds..........
[edit on 24-5-2009 by Cloudsinthesky]
Eleven more people in the UK have been confirmed with the swine flu virus, taking the total to 133.
Originally posted by Citycruiser
reply to post by ecoparity
Hi ecoparity,
The point to my questions is that preparing for such a thing is a major pain, since most of the stuff one needs to collect have expiration dates. So what good is it to buy months worth of food and medication if it expires, even the thought of managing a pantry or medication and disinfection supplies etc. gives me the chills. I have already read some of the manuals and understand the basics of a lockdown. But being a single student without a car and living in a relatively small apartment without having huge space for a pantry in an apartment complex with many other people makes this very difficult.