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reply posted on 1-7-2009 @ 05:03 PM by novacs4me
Your lungs on swine flu Time to get right with God! Sure, the odds are that it won't be you. But you don't know that, do you?



reply posted on 1-7-2009 @ 10:17 PM by JBA2848
White House plans flu summit next week

From CNN Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry

WASHINGTON (CNN) – CNN has learned that the Obama administration is planning to convene a "flu summit" next week to make preparations for the fall, as officials in Argentina declare a health emergency because 35 people have died in the Latin American nation from swine flu.

Senior Obama administration officials stressed the summit, which will be convened July 9 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is being held strictly as a precautionary measure to make sure the U.S. is prepared for any potential swine flu outbreak, and not because of any specific fear of a crisis.

President Obama will be traveling next week to Russia, Italy and Ghana on a foreign trip, so the summit will be chaired by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, according to the officials.


The summit follows Obama's meeting this past Tuesday with several former federal officials who dealt with America's 1976 H1N1 flu outbreak and offered perspective from that crisis for current administration officials. Sebelius and White House Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan joined Obama at that meeting.

In a prepared statement after the meeting, Obama said it was valuable to hear from "a select group of individuals who could speak knowledgeably about the lessons learned from the 1976 influenza so that we can further prepare this nation for the possibility of a more severe outbreak of H1N1 flu."

Among the people who attended were William Howard Taft IV, the former general counsel at the Department of Health Education and Welfare, and Dr. Harvey Fineberg, co-author of "The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease."



So after having his meeting with the 1976 Paralization And Vaccination Officals Obama decides to have a flu summit meeting next week. Hopefully he will get advice from someone who hasn't already screwed up a flu pandemic this time.

If you don't know what I mean by 1976 Paralization And Vaccination Officals watch this video. 60 Minutes Special


reply posted on 2-7-2009 @ 06:58 AM by Maya00a
Originally posted by infinite
Andy Burnham, in a statement to the House of Commons, said that swine flu cases could increase by as many as 100,000 per day by the end of August, and added that a treatment phase would now be entered

Politicshome.com


WOW! 100,000 per day by August is quite an alarming number of expected new cases. I seriously hope this doesn't turn more deadly with those kind of numbers. So far deaths have been minimal so I hope it stays that way.


reply posted on 2-7-2009 @ 07:37 AM by infinite
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UK government will be providing general estimates and not confirmations because the spread of the virus is too great in the population.


reply posted on 3-7-2009 @ 03:43 AM by apacheman
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Doesn't make a lot of sense on the surface: why would it be inefficient in one location, and as efficient as hell in another? Somehow I think these guys are wrong: they either screwed up their experiments and got misleading results, or it's misinformation


reply posted on 3-7-2009 @ 07:33 AM by nanbei
Two more detahs in Uruguay: death toll up to 3.

AOL

A 56 year old woman from Punta del Este and a 60 year old man who was under police custody.
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