11/24/2009 05:22:16 PM EST

*Breaking News* New H1n1 virus has made it to North America *Breaking News*

posted by ObamaMustNukeFoxnews

There are cases now that the new h1n1 virus has made it to north america.

 Here's a link I found about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=1Rkk9eSZ_ps

(look carefully at the link it should be watch?v not watc h?v)

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*Breaking News* New H1n1 virus has made it to North America *Breaking News* | 7 comments (7 topical, 0 hidden)
wow... (none / 1)
That report was so filled with crap science that I don't know where to start.
"many people are concerned"?
What "other type" of swine flu are they talking about?
Wayne Madsen quoting polls? Top notch science there!

Isn't he a Birther and conspiracy nutcase

Classic scare tactics. Next!

by designs on 11/24/2009 05:37:34 PM EST

NY Times Article (none / 0)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009 /11/14/world/europe/14flu.h tml?_r=1

 

LVIV, Ukraine — When patients began arriving in Vyacheslav Bonder’s intensive care unit two weeks ago, their lungs so saturated with blood that they could barely gasp, the only thing he could compare it to was a field hospital in wartime. As soon as he hooked one patient up to a ventilator, a second and third would appear in the doorway.

 By that time, hospitals were clearing wards to make room for a wave of pneumonia cases, and people were crowding into drugstores to buy whatever they could get their hands on. Rumors were circulating that the government had ordered the city aerially sprayed with chemicals, to cure Lviv (pronounced luh-VEEVE) of disease or, in a grimmer version, to exterminate its carriers.

 The panic lifted almost as quickly as it had arrived, and the World Health Organization announced Friday that the swine flu illnesses and deaths so far in Ukraine — 265 fatalities nationwide, with 87 in the Lviv region — were statistically no worse than those in other countries. But what happened here has drawn rapt attention from experts bracing for the epidemic to hit Europe, and especially the fragile health care systems of countries of the former Soviet Union...

 

by Scorpio on 11/24/2009 06:26:02 PM EST

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you decide what you want to do (none / 0)

Governments worry about more cases of drug-resistant H1N1

Published 23 November 2009

Health officials in the United Kingdom and the United States report the likely person-to-person spread of a drug-resistant strain of H1N1; most patients thus far infected with the strain have already been immune-deficient

British health officials are investigating the likely person-to-person spread of a drug-resistant strain of H1N1, the Health Protection Agency said on Friday. There have been five confirmed cases in Wales of patients infected with H1N1 resistant to oseltamivir -- the generic name of Roche AG and Gilead Sciences Inc's antiviral drug Tamiflu, the agency said.

Four other patients are infected with H1N1 with the same genetic mutation but one was helped by Tamiflu and the status of three others is not clear. Another antiviral, GlaxoSmithKline and Biota Inc's Relenza, was effective in the patients, the HPA said

AFP reports that the patients had serious conditions that suppressed their immune systems, which can give the virus a better than usual opportunity to develop resistance, the HPA added."Although further epidemiological investigation is underway, it would seem likely that transmission of oseltamivir-resistant H1N1 virus has taken place," it said in a statement. "At present we believe the risk to the general healthy population is low."

John McCauley of the Medical Research Council said the patients involved were in an at-risk group.

"It is well established that patients with immunodeficiency do have problems with eliminating virus, giving it a greater chance to acquire resistance," he said in a statement.

The World Health Organization has reported 57 cases of Tamiflu resistance worldwide. There have not yet been any confirmed cases of person-to-person transmission, although a possible case in the United States is under investigation.

by gatekeeper50 on 11/24/2009 06:09:12 PM EST

not sure what the point is (none / 0)
as far as i've read the vaccine for h1n1 is a little over twice as effective against h1n1 as the regular flu vaccine is against regular flu. i haven't read much on the new mutation to the h1n1 but i think the current swine flu vaccine is still effective against it. also i haven't read much about the new strain being any more deadly or anything either.

by kingbane on 11/24/2009 11:26:57 PM EST

the swine flu hysteria is unjustified...for now (none / 0)
folks. let's get some of the facts straight that have accumulated about a/h1n1 by now: the pathology is somewhat milder compared to seasonal flu and most importantly the mortality is significantly lower than it is for seasonal flu. on the other side the infection rate of h1n1 is considerably higher when compared to this fall's seasonal flu and it even looks like that the swine flu is 'eradicating' the seasonal flu cos it deprives it of its hosts. IMO the media jumps on the swine flu for two reasons: 1. there was a justified concern in the beginning that this new virus could develop into a serious pandemic due to its grade of genetic homology to the spanish flu which killed >50 million people in 1918. 2. the media loved the swine flu and the WHO's early raise of the threat level cos they finally had their shocking disease story, something SARS and the bird flu - although it was close there - didn't persist and spread as much thanks to pretty efficient measures taken by officials. the one thing that could still turn this story ugly would be a kind of mutation that would increase the virus' lethality..


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by EauDeCologne on 11/25/2009 01:04:12 PM EST

uh (none / 0)
you're wrong... the mortality for swine flu is SIGNIFICANTLY higher. you've confused mortality rate and number of dead. number of dead from h1n1 is ALOT lower then seasonal flu. but that is because seasonal flu hits WAAAAAAY more people then h1n1. the mortality rate however is much higher then seasonal flu. ie, if you get h1n1 you have a higher chance of dying (mortality rate). but the overall dead from swine flu is much less because swine flu has inflicted less people then seasonal flu.

by kingbane on 12/02/2009 10:51:50 AM EST

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H1N1? Stick this in your favorites and click it (none / 0)
For solid, reliable, non-hysterical, up-to-date information on H1N1 and H5N1:

http://crofsblogs.typepad.c om/h5n1/

This blog pulls together all the latest reports, commenting where appropriate. It also provides all the links you could possibly want. If a mutant virus is about to eat N. America, it will be on there.

The blogger is intelligent, rational, humane, sensible, thorough - and Canadian.

by Landbeyond on 12/02/2009 02:12:48 PM EST

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