H1N1 Pandemic

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 [...]

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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.

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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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