[serious] Docfeelgood's General Swine Flu Thread

[Theben]

Me care! Me care long time!

[SlowwHand]

Here you dollah.

[Docfeelgood]

Spread of swine flu far from over, officials warn

CANCUN, Mexico — World health experts warned Thursday that the global swine flu outbreak that so far has sickened nearly 4,000 Texans and killed 17 is all but certain to worsen in the coming months.

“We are really at the start of a global phenomenon,” said Keiji Fukuda, assistant director general of the World Health Organization. “This is a very humbling virus.”

Hundreds of specialists from 40 countries meeting at a posh beach side resort in this tourist mecca were plotting strategies for what many dread could become an outbreak rivaling a 1918 flu pandemic that killed tens of millions of people.

Health officials in the United States, Mexico and Canada fear that a strengthened virus will return north with the winter cold. And the United Kingdom’s health minister warned this week that the flu could strike as many as 100,000 Britons a day by the end of August.

“We need to plan for the most extreme scenarios as well as for the likely scenarios,” said Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Influenza is perhaps the most unpredictable of infectious diseases.”

This swine flu strain — which scientists call A-H1N1 — was first noticed in late April in Mexico City. The virus was later traced to cases in early March, one of them fatal, in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Oaxaca as well as two near San Diego, Calif.

In just three months the virus has zipped around the world, sickening at least 80,000 and killing 327 in 121 countries. It now stalks the southern hemisphere, where winter flu season rages.

“Watching how quickly H1N1 spread globally was quite disconcerting,” said Canada’s Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq. “It is so important for countries to have a plan in place to be able to respond.”

The WHO declared a pandemic last month. Vaccines are being developed, and it is being effectively treated with anti-viral medicines.

“It really makes sense that the origin was Mexico,” said Nancy Cox, the CDC’s leading flu expert. “We don’t know how long it circulated in humans before it was detected.”

Unlike seasonal flu, which kills tens of thousands of toddlers and the elderly each year, H1N1 has mostly sickened young adults and been deadliest in older children and teens. Experts worry that it could mutate into strains for which most people have no immunity.

[SlowwHand]

So take that!

[Docfeelgood]

they really don't know or care.

[SlowwHand]

When they get hit with a case of the rigors, they'll know.

[Docfeelgood]

When they get hit with a case of the rigors, they'll know.

I think they are just scared and cannot face up to there own immortality.

[Docfeelgood]

Tamiflu-resistant swine flu patient found in Japan: govt

13 hours ago

TOKYO (AFP) — A genetic mutation of swine flu that is resistant to the anti-viral Tamiflu has been discovered in Japan, the first such case in the country, the health ministry said.

It was the second reported case of Tamiflu resistance linked to swine flu in less than a week.

The latest case was found in a patient who had been given the drug since first being diagnosed with A(H1N1) around two weeks ago, Kyodo news agency reported Thursday, citing the Health, Welfare and Labour Ministry.

The patient -- a woman in Osaka prefecture -- was recovering after having been given Relenza, an alternative anti-flu medication, the report said.

A spokeswoman for Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Roche, which makes Tamiflu, said the company had been informed of the case and called it "normal."

"It is absolutely normal," she said, adding that "0.4 percent of adults develop resistance" to Tamiflu.

She said the case does not indicate Tamiflu has become less effective against swine flu.

Danish authorities announced earlier this week they had discovered resistance to Tamiflu in a female patient. Relenza was also used successfully to treat her.

According to the latest World Health Organization figures, Japan has 1,266 reported cases of swine flu, but has so far recorded no fatalities.

[Docfeelgood]

News Britain predicts 100,000 new swine flu cases

Published: 07.02.09, 16:53 / Israel News

Britain is to change the way it deals with the H1N1 flu outbreak after projections that over 100,000 new cases a day could be emerging by the end of August.


Faced with such huge numbers, the focus will switch to treating the disease rather than trying to contain it. (Reuters)

[Barnabas]

Over 100.000 thousand people have the flu in Argentina but only 44 died.

They say that the number of people with the flu will increase for 2 or 3 more weeks.

The flu is worse for pregnant women, people with aids, people with asthma, and morbid fat people.

[DaShi]

Great googly moogly:

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Um. . .swine flu is bad. Mmmk.

[Theben]

I too have difficulty facing my immortality.

[Lorizael]

Dashi, Theben, Oerdin: Stay out of this thread. If you want to argue about whether or not you should stay out of the thread, PM me.

[DaShi]

I'd just ask for consistency is all.

[SlowwHand]

Dork