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Swine Flu

Pandemic still threat to young, expert says

- The H1N1 flu pandemic is as severe as influenza pandemics in 1957 and 1968 and remains a threat, especially to healthy young adults, a leading health expert said Wednesday. John Mackenzie, the Australian who heads the World Health Organization's independent but secretive Emergency Committee, also said he was not aware of any of its [...]

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Both H5N1 Bird Flu and H1N1 Swine Flu To Get Worse Claim Flu Forecasters

LONDON, April 9 /PRNewswire/ — The most recent BioRadar™ (FluForecast™) analysis of the virus genomes of both H5N1, known for high lethality, and H1N1, known for high infectivity, indicates that the Replikin Counts™ of both strains are rising. Such Count increases in a specific strain have been invariably associated with clinical outbreaks of that strain. [...]

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Severe H1N1-Associated acute respiratory distress – case studies

RESULTS: Between June 1 and July 31, 2009, 7 patients (age range: 25-66 years; 4 patients under the age of 40 years; 6 male; 1 pregnant) were diagnosed with H1N1, with 5 of 6 (83%) having initial false-negative rapid testing. All developed respiratory failure complicated by acute respiratory distress syndrome, with 4 additionally developing multiorgan [...]

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The false pandemic myth

The idea that governments over reacted to the Swine Flu threat is given short shrift in several articles – her’s an extract from one The British Medical Association is in complete accord. Its pandemic flu chief, Peter Holden, is adamant there were no vested interests anywhere near this – and furthermore puts it in context: [...]

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CIDRAP report reminds us that H1N1 was/is worse than we thought

“Based on US mortality surveillance data, we conclude that the YLL burden of the 2009 pandemic may in fact be as high as for the 1968 pandemic-but that at this time the assessment is still tentative,” the report states. More waves of H1N1 cases are likely to come over the next few flu seasons, and [...]

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Swine flu still evolving

The available data, though sparse, requires the simple evaluation that this pandemic reservoir is not approaching stasis. The background continues to widen within the existing clades adding polymorphisms from H5N1 and 1918 strains demonstrating that ΣPF11 is far from reaching Omega status. Movement onto this cross-linked background has accelerated recently, now encompassing 2% of all [...]

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Seasonal flu resurfacing in some nations

Clinical consultation rates for influenza-like illness (ILI) and acute respiratory infection (ARI) remain at low levels throughout the Region. Belarus, England (United Kingdom), Italy and Spain tested 20 or more sentinel specimens, but only Italy reported an influenza positivity rate over 20% (31%), of which all were influenza B viruses. England and Spain reported influenza [...]

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Flu Virus in Waterfowl – a factor in human flu?

The mode of transmission of swine-origin virus to waterfowl is not clear. In previously published cases, where swine influenza viruses have been identified in turkeys, the flocks were in close proximity to swine herds (2). Similarly, we identified a swine herd in north-central South Dakota where all 4 waterfowl were sampled. Respiratory secretions from the [...]

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Elderly’s protection from H1N1 studied

Reporting in the March issue of the Journal of Virology, James Crowe Jr., M.D., Jens Krause, M.D., and their colleagues report that antibodies isolated from elderly survivors of the 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic also bound to and inhibited the 2009 H1N1 virus in laboratory and animal experiments. via Elderly’s protection from H1N1 studied (04/2/10).

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Which Health Care Workers Were Most Affected During the Spring 2009 H1N1 Pandemic?

Results: Records of 123 confirmed reports of laboratory-confirmed influenza A or novel H1N1 infections in hospital employees were also analyzed. Two thirds of the H1N1 cases occurred during June (infection rates in parentheses): 34 in physicians and medical personnel (6.7%), 36 in nurses and clinical technicians (2.2%), 39 in Administrative & Support Personnel (infection rate [...]

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