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Pandemic

Mad Science? (Update)

December 21, 2011

Development of  A[H5N1] (Bird Flu) in order to study the evolution of a pandemic pathogen was funded by the U.S.Government.  Now when the researchers want to publish their findings in a professional journal, government officials disclaim knowledge of the scope and dangerous implications of the research.  The reality is that applying for research monies to [...]

Tagged as: bird flu, deadly flu virus, Ethics, H5N1, NIH, Pandemic, ron fouchier, science and censorship

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Breaking News: New SuperBug Makes Its’ Appearance

August 12, 2010

Just when the W.H.O. declares H1N1 Pandemic officially over, a new gene that allows any bacteria to become a superbug, labed NDM-1, has made  its’ appearance in India, Pakistan, and  now United Kingdom.  Spread of the virus has been linked to patients undergoing cosmetic surgery in India.  Doctors fear that the superbug gene that allows bacteria to [...]

Tagged as: Bacteria, Bacteria Transfer Drug Resistance, Drug Resistant Gene, E-Coli, Global Transfer of NDM-1, India, NDM-1, Pakistan, Pandemic, Superbug Alert, The Lancet Journal of Infectios Diseases, United Kingdom, W.H.O., W.H.O. Declares H1N1 Pandemic Over As Superbug Appears

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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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If H1N1 joins with the bird flu, pandemic may be much worse*

November 18, 2009

[Commentary printed by The China Post* ref. post Playing Chicken With A Nightmare Flu by Alan Sipress The Washington Post] When swine flu erupted this spring in the southwestern United States and Mexico, it had been 40 years since the last flu pandemic. The outbreak has dispelled any illusion that pandemic influenza belonged to a bygone [...]

Tagged as: Africa and flu, Asia and Flu, CDC, Egypt, Keiji Fikuda, Margaret Chan, Mexico, Pandemic, swine flu, Swine Flu and Avian Flu, U.S., Virus reassortment, W.H.O.

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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…

Tagged as: Flu and Young Adults, H1N1, Pandemic, Pandemic Critical Ill Patients, swine flu

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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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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 [...]

Tagged as: 1918 Swine Flu, butasforme.com, College campuses, Flu Overloads Health Care System, H1N1, Health Care, Journal of American Medicine, Obama Adminstration, Pandemic, pandemic preparedness, Reformed Liberal, Seasonal flu, Severity of H1N1 Flu, swine flu

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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 [...]

Tagged as: 1918 pandemic, antiviral supplies for pandemic, business and swine flu, butasforme.com, CIDRAP, Global pandemic preparednessw, H1N1, Influenza, internet probs and swine flu, J.M.Barry, Michael Osterholm, Nature Journal, Obama, Pandemic, Reformed Liberal, swine flu

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