Hanoi detects first combinations of dengue fever and swine flu, page 1

Vietnam has recorded its first cases of people testing positive for influenza A (H1N1) virus and having dengue fever symptoms at the same time, a Hanoi-based infectious diseases institute said on Wednesday.

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Also at the meeting the Ministry of Health cited the World Health Organization (WHO) to note that Barbados in the Caribbean has recorded seven cases with both dengue fever and swine flu with one death.

A different mix. Gee what's next? Hopefully, not bird flu & swine flu.

What's going to happen next can be quite scary IMO.

reply to post by searching_for_truth

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This makes no sense, Dengue can only be transmitted by infected mosquitoes during the hot season.

The seasonal flu is none existent in hot weathers, the swine flu can survive hot weather, unless a dengue fever carrier mosquito happens to take blood from a swine flu infected person and then in a merry go around infect another human it could be possible to transmit with the blood both swine and dengue, but this could be very rare cases, my mother in the 80s got the new mutate version of dengue the hemorrhagic kind and it was just few people that got infected with that, she got quarantine for over a month.

Now I can imagine a combination of hemorrhagic dengue fever and swine flu all in one, but the cases will be extremely rare.

reply to post by Finalized

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But then again, dengue mosquito is not found in cold weathers is a hot weather insect.

While swine flu survive both cold and hot, so if its a new combination that can only be carried by dengue mosquito is will only be during the hot months and it will go away during the cold weather.

Now in southern parts of Florida is been know to be dengue mosquitoes found but just in very rare occasions.

So that means here in the US it could be a combination of swine and dengue together during extreme hot weather.

This is very interesting, also mosquitoes can bite animals too and birds.

Interesting.

BTW I had the dengue fever when I was 14, in PR, is worst than the seasonal flu because it attacks the nervous system while the flu attacks the respiratory system, no a good combination.



[edit on 6-11-2009 by marg6043]

[edit on 6-11-2009 by marg6043]

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