Swine Flu news and updates thread, page 479

Argentina on verge of declaring swine flu emergency. Here is some more info on Argentina, and perhaps will help answer the question about what the WHO is watching in the southern hemisphere.

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reply to post by Trayen11

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There is such a thing called a cyst. It's sometimes non-urgent so a procedure to get it removed can be delayed.

There are several postings scattered throughout this and a few other threads that can possibly treat the symptons. Please keep in mind what your food allergies may be.

Hope you feel better soon.

Here's my local version of an update-

www.wsmv.com...

It is such a non article. Slowing down? We had 30 more caases in one week. We'd been having 4 new cases confirmed a week.

Originally posted by novacs4me
Argentina on verge of declaring swine flu emergency. Here is some more info on Argentina, and perhaps will help answer the question about what the WHO is watching in the southern hemisphere.

[edit on 28-6-2009 by novacs4me]

[edit on 28-6-2009 by novacs4me]

With 26 dead out of 1597, no wonder the doctors want to declare an emergency...that means the mortality rate has gone from a little over 1.4% to 1.64% in a matter of days. As I noted earlier, the Cali-Utah variety seems to have an official mortality of 1.1%, while the New York strain is 1.55% lethal, those according to the officially reported numbers. If they are under-reported as we suspect, the true mortality rate is, has to be nearer 2% or above. That would mean that the CDC's estimate of casualties during the regular flu season are about three to four times under-estimated: closer to two million dead in the US. That's a lot of bodies.

This bug is already extremely bad news as is....if it gets more lethal, holy crap we're in trouble.

[edit on 28-6-2009 by apacheman]

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reply to post by Nventual

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Here is a timely article from the New Zealand ministry of health on what symptoms to watch out for. Most people get the mild form of the flu, but some have a severe course.

Originally posted by fleabit

No one is scared of H1N1 in it's current state, the fear is if it mutates. Then you won't be laughing, you'll be dying.

Actually it probably will mutate, perhaps several times. The fear isn't that it will mutate. The fear is that it will mutate into something that is more deadly, yet not TOO deadly, that can spread easily, and that we won't have any cure for come flu season.

The odds of *that* happening are indeed, rather low, as stated by many influenza experts. Possible? Sure. Likely? Not at all.

Speak for yourself, a current mortality rate above 1.5% scares the crap out of me. The 1918 flu had a mortality of over 2.5%, so we're not that far from it as is, especially if you factor in under-reporting.

Here's a good link to the 1918 stats:

www.cdc.gov...

From the Canadian Press, Toronto: Critics say 'mild' a misleading term

reply to post by JBA2848

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It looks like someone translated that Spanish article you found: lungs that burn in hours

reply to post by novacs4me

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When I seen them speak of the burning lungs I thought back to this article where the 1918 spainish flu did that same thing.


Experimental Infection of Pigs with the Human 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus

FIG. 2. Extent of gross lung lesions in the infected piglets. Lung lesions at 5 and 7 dpi in the 1930/rec and 1918/rec virus-infected animals and in the 1918/rec virus-inoculated pigs also at 12 (pig 106) and 17 (pigs 107 and 108) dpi. Total extent of the lung lesions (white columns) and the extent of the lesions in the diaphragmatic lobes (black columns) are given as the total lung surface percentage for individual animals. While the macroscopic lesions in the lungs of the 1930/rec virus-infected animals did not appear to be spreading, the lung lesions in the 1918/rec virus-infected animals were more extensive later times postinfection (after 7 dpi).

Graph for above quote.

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Click here for more information.

I found a summary of hospitalized cases of patients with H1N1 in California from April to May, 2009. This summary will tell you about the 30 patients who were hospitalized, giving details about their underlying conditions, age, length of stay, diagnosis upon admission, etc.

Toward the bottom of the page, there are some really easy to read tables that let you see a lot of this information at a glance. All this information is from the CDC. Here's the link so you can see this information for yourselves.


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Insect cells used to incubate swine flu vaccine in Australia.

Originally posted by novacs4me
It looks like someone translated that Spanish article you found: lungs that burn in hours

This article needs to be posted everytime someone here posts things like 'seasonal flu kills 36,000 a year and that isn't happening with swine flu' or 'it's all hype'.

That was an amazing article! This swine flu is VERY different from other flus.

reply to post by tarifa37

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Nearly 400 cases in the South East.

Predicted we will be the next area to declare the virus out of control. My friends father has contracted Swine Flu, Ramsgate has a significant outbreak occurring.

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