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H1N1

H1N1 Possible ResurgenceThis Fall

October 5, 2010

A recent visit to the ER of a local Minnesota hospital was a déja vu of  last year as a young boy came in with flu-like symptoms spewing blood from his mouth and masked staff started assisting him.  This past summer, the H1N1 was going the rounds  in India and other countries.  The vaccine that [...]

Tagged as: Fall 2010 Flu Prediction, H1N1, H5N1, Resurgence of H1N1

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While CDC Projects That The Peak of H1N1 Is Over, Reports Of Person-to-PersonTamiflu Resistance Found In The U.S.

November 21, 2009

In  the midst of CDC reporting in a decline in the number of H1N1 patients, what would seem like good news, is being kept in check by new cases that are resistant to the current  popular antiviral Tamiflu. By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY Epidemic experts say they are investigating the apparent spread of Tamiflu-resistant swine [...]

Tagged as: Antiviral resistance, CDC, Duke University, H1N1, North Carolina, Pandemic, Person-to-Person Transmission, swine flu, Virus reassortment

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Distribution of H1N1 Vaccine: A Real Test Of Government’s Access To Health Care?

October 16, 2009

As Congress is moving toward reforming the current health care system, the H1N1 pandemic offers a real time test of the efficacy of a government run system. For example, the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus has an enrolled student body of approximately 10,000+ students . Primarily a commuter campus, students health care coverage is [...]

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Severe Swine Flu Could Lead to Blood Clots in Lungs

October 14, 2009

Researchers say CT scans may be needed to spot the risk by Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) — People who are severely ill with the H1N1 swine flu run the risk of blood clots in the lungs, University of Michigan researchers say. And because standard chest X-rays may not be able [...]

Tagged as: H1N1, Medical effects from swine flu, Pandemic, swine flu

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Severe H1N1 infection in females ‘striking’: study

October 14, 2009

Many of the Canadians who died or were sent to hospital earlier this year with H1N1 virus were young adults, female and aboriginal, a new study suggests. Read More…

Tagged as: Females and Flu, Flu Deaths, H1N1, Native Americans and Flu, Pandemic, swine flu

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Flu patients are younger, need fast critical care

October 14, 2009

Canadians hospitalized with swine flu are younger and sicker than expected, a new study finds. The report, Critically Ill Patients With 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Infection in Canada, showed people in their 30s are most vulnerable to catching swine flu.  Read More…

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Study: Swine flu deadliest to healthy, relatively young adults

October 14, 2009

Doctors learn they don’t entirely understand the H1N1 flu virus. New studies say it hits otherwise-healthy relatively young adults the hardest.  Read More… // Photos Related Content Read the study BY FRED TASKER ftasker@MiamiHerald.com The H1N1 influenza virus is so new it’s not entirely understood, South Florida doctors say. It can be as mild as [...]

Tagged as: H1N1, Pandemic, swine flu, Young Adults Flu

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Without high-tech care, H1N1 death toll could soar, studies suggest

October 14, 2009

TORONTO — Developing countries with limited access to advanced health-care facilities may be in for a rough ride with swine flu and even countries with high-tech ICUs may find themselves pushed to the limit as their hospitals struggle to save gravely ill H1N1 patients, new studies suggest.

Tagged as: H1N1, Pandemic Death Toll, pandemic preparedness, swine flu

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Mild Cases Of H1N1 Raising Havoc!

October 13, 2009

As one who has experience firsthand the ravages of the flu this season, all I can say is that there is no way to adequately prepare your family against an outbreak of this size, notwithstanding a pandemic. Not to be critical of the local public health officials and medical personnel, the current situation on many [...]

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“There Is No Cause For Alarm If Proper Precautions Are Observed.” Rupert Blue, U.S. Surgeon General 1918. Threat of [H1N1] “Cause for Concern, But Not Alarm.” Barack Obama, U.S. President, 2009.

September 24, 2009

J.M. Barry, (2009) writing in Nature [459: 324-5] on Pandemics: Avoiding The Mistakes of 1918 lists as a major mistake  by the government in addressing the 1918 pandemic was the communication strategy of reassurance.  J.M. Barry points out that in 1918  “This communication strategy of either reassurance or silence had its effect. Its effect was [...]

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