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Topic started on 19-6-2009 @ 03:34 AM by dallas18

First swine flu death in Australia


news.ninemsn.com.au
Australia has suffered its first swine flu death.

A 26-year-old man from Western Australia was admitted to a hospital in Adelaide suffering symptoms consistent with the virus.

But his condition declined and he was declared dead earlier this evening.

More soon...
(visit the link for the full news article)


reply posted on 19-6-2009 @ 03:52 AM by zetabeam
reply to post by dallas18


Are you aware that the the Dept of Health issued the following statement a few days ago ?

Health Minister Nicola Roxon said ... that the strain of new influenza H1N1 is not as severe as previously thought.




reply posted on 19-6-2009 @ 04:00 AM by zetabeam
Originally posted by LenGXV6
Indigenous man dies after contracting swine flu



A man from a remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia has died after testing positive to swine flu.


ABC


Now that's really unusual ... here I am in Adelaide and yet to see a single case of Swine Flu and yet this person in an isolated and remote area contracts it and dies ! And of course there's no mention in the report as to how this may have happened ...


reply posted on 19-6-2009 @ 04:41 AM by dallas18
some more information

A WEST Australian man suffering from swine flu has died in an Adelaide hospital, in the first death of a person with the virus in Australia.
However South Australian health authorities have not yet confirmed that the man died from swine flu, as he had a number of serious health conditions.

The 26-year-old had been diagnosed with swine flu yesterday, SA Health said.

SA Health said the man had been suffering from a number of serious health conditions and had been transferred from Alice Springs Hospital to the Royal Adelaide Hospital intensive care unit on Monday.

SA Health chief medical officer Paddy Phillips said the man had swine flu but said he was unable to confirm the cause of death at this stage.

"Although the patient was diagnosed as positive for swine flu yesterday, his other medical conditions had dramatically deteriorated by the time he got to Adelaide,'' Professor Phillips said.

The Royal Adelaide Hospital had taken all appropriate infection control procedures to limit the spread of the virus to other people, he said.

"Tragic though this case is, it is important to note that in the great majority of cases, swine flu causes a mild illness which people recover from without any medical intervention,'' he said.

Prof Phillips said the man's death would not yet be added to the list of casualties from swine flu.

SA Health had alerted national health authorities and the matter would be investigated further by SA Health, he said.

Prof Phillips said the Aboriginal man's family had been informed of his death.

www.news.com.au...


reply posted on 19-6-2009 @ 05:42 AM by Kaytagg
reply to post by LenGXV6


I'm just making sure there is a little perspective here.

I think most of our ATSers forget how to divide when they see infection/death statistics for the swine flu.

Currently in the US it appears that for every 1000 people who get infected, about one person dies.

www.crikey.com.au...

What's 1/1000?
*gets out his t-1billion calculator and a cup of coffee to crunch these numbers.*

(4 hours later)

Ok, the magic number machine told me 0.001, or .1% (the actual mortality rate has dropped even lower since the publication of this article).

So it's not that bad. Not even news worthy, really. Although I still appreciate the article being posted here. It's just nothing terribly important or interesting, unless you're a biologist.


reply posted on 24-6-2009 @ 05:10 AM by CultureD
reply to post by CINY8


I recall reading in "The Great Influenza" by John Barry that 90% of North American Inuit and Indiginous peoples died from the flu in 1918.

One can imagine the dangers in the Australian and New Zealand Indiginous peoples.

How is it different from the Conquistadores giving measles and smallpox and syphilis to the native people of Meso- and South America? If one has had NO contact with microbes outside of their own group, how can they be expected to withstand something with such virulence as flu (any flu?).

We can all hope that our god diets and healthy lifestyles prevent our catching this, but I'm beginning to think it's going to be a matter of luck- and who survives it will be based on genetics, med support- and luck. I don't think we become complacent, no matter the mortality rate.


reply posted on 24-6-2009 @ 05:14 AM by CultureD
reply to post by Kaytagg


So, if the mortality rate (on a planet of just under 7 billions) turns out to be 0.1% and everyone catches this flu, we could be looking at 7 million deaths or so. I don't really see that as trivial.

A 1% mortality rate puts us at around 70M.

That is a very high number of deaths in a very short period of time, and I think that it will have quite an impact on society, economy, etc., not to mention the loss of such a large number of people. Even if half of 0.1% die, it's still 35 million people or so- that's a number that is rather chilling, I think- at least from a humanistic standpoint.
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