ALERT CDC WEBSITE INFORMATION!!!

TIK

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http://www.cdc.gov/flu/swine/investigation.htm

Fair use--just making sure my TB2K family is up to date--please read...

Human Swine Influenza Investigation

April 24, 2009
Human cases of swine influenza A (H1N1) virus infection have been identified in the U.S. in San Diego County and Imperial County, California as well as in San Antonio, Texas. Internationally, human cases of swine influenza A (H1N1) virus infection have been identified in Mexico.
U.S. Human Cases of Swine Flu InfectionState# of laboratory
confirmed casesCalifornia6 casesTexas2 casesInternational Human Cases of Swine Flu InfectionCountry# of laboratory
confirmed casesMexico7 casesCases will be updated daily at 3 p.m. EST
NOTE: Only international human cases confirmed by CDC laboratories will be reported​
Investigations are ongoing to determine the source of the infection and whether additional people have been infected with similar swine influenza viruses.
CDC is working very closely with state and local officials in California, Texas, as well as with health officials in Mexico, Canada and the World Health Organization.
Topics on this page:
General Information

Swine Flu and You
What is swine flu? Are there human infections with swine flu in the U.S.? …
Key Facts about Swine Influenza (Swine Flu)
How does swine flu spread? Can people catch swine flu from eating pork? …
Swine Influenza in Pigs and People
Brochure
Information in Spanish
Datos importantes sobre la influenza porcina…
Guidance

CDC has provided the following interim guidance for this investigation.
Residents of California and Texas
CDC has identified human cases of swine influenza A (H1N1) virus infection in people in these areas. CDC is working with local and state health agencies to investigate these cases. We have determined that this virus is contagious and is spreading from human to human. However, at this time, we have not determined how easily the virus spreads between people. As with any infectious disease, we are recommending precautionary measures for people residing in these areas.
  • Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
  • Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hands cleaners are also effective.
  • Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
  • If you get sick, CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.
  • Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way.
There is no vaccine available at this time, so it is important for people living in these areas to take steps to prevent spreading the virus to others. If people are ill, they should attempt to stay at home and limit contact with others. Healthy residents living in these areas should take everyday preventive actions.
People who live in these areas who develop an illness with fever and respiratory symptoms, such as cough and runny nose, and possibly other symptoms, such as body aches, nausea, or vomiting or diarrhea, should contact their health care provider. Their health care provider will determine whether influenza testing is needed.

Clinicians
Clinicians should consider the possibility of swine influenza virus infections in patients presenting with febrile respiratory illness who:
  1. Live in San Diego County or Imperial County, California or San Antonio, Texas or
  2. Have traveled to San Diego and/or Imperial County, California or San Antonio, Texas or
  3. Have been in contact with ill persons from these areas in the 7 days prior to their illness onset.
If swine flu is suspected, clinicians should obtain a respiratory swab for swine influenza testing and place it in a refrigerator (not a freezer). Once collected, the clinician should contact their state or local health department to facilitate transport and timely diagnosis at a state public health laboratory.
State Public Health Laboratories
Laboratories should send all unsubtypable influenza A specimens as soon as possible to the Viral Surveillance and Diagnostic Branch of the CDC’s Influenza Division for further diagnostic testing.
Public Health /Animal Health Officials
Officials should conduct thorough case and contact investigations to determine the source of the swine influenza virus, extent of community illness and the need for timely control measures.
Interim Guidance on Infection Control and Antiviral Recommendations for Patients with Confirmed or Suspected Swine Influenza A Virus Infection, April 20, 2009
Guidance for health care workers and public health personnel…
 
45nut

45nut

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If this doesn't convince the fence-sitters to keep a couple weeks of food and water on hand nothing will.

Those daily-trip-to-the-grocery-store people will be very susceptable to infection and death when, not if, the next pandemic pops up.
 
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Old Gray Mare

TB Fanatic
45nut said:
If this doesn't convince the fence-sitters to keep a couple weeks of food and water on hand nothing will.

Those daily-trip-to-the-grocery-store people will be very susceptable to infection and death when, not if, the next pandemic pops up.
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Those who failed to prepare may become future Darwin Award contenders.
 
TIK

TIK

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Me too...texted my wife while she was out to stop by CVS to pick up some Semburcol or however you spell it. She got 4 bottles. good to go.
 
jed turtle

jed turtle

a brother in the Lord
interesting. somehow the Universe brought the movie "V for Vendetta" to my tv tonight. strange when reality starts to mirror fiction...
 
Zulu Cowboy

Zulu Cowboy

Keep It Real...
SassyinAZ said:
It's a potluck, Mike -- 1 part avian, 2 parts swine, 1 part human
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"It is genetically different from the fully human H1N1 seasonal influenza virus that has been circulating globally for the past few years. The new flu virus contains DNA typical to avian, swine and human viruses, including elements from European and Asian swine viruses." - http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE53N4ZC20090424

'Potluck'...seems to be an apt description.

What he hell is European and Asian swine DNA, doing in Mexican hogs?

Zulu Cowboy
 
WildDaisy

WildDaisy

God has a plan, Trust it!
Did anyone catch the "NOTE" at the top of the report?

NOTE: Only international human cases confirmed by CDC laboratories will be reported
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We'll never know how many hit the US because they don't plan to report them?
 
Hansa44

Hansa44

Justine Case
bethshaya said:
Did anyone catch the "NOTE" at the top of the report?




We'll never know how many hit the US because they don't plan to report them?
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The thing that concerns me is how many people in Mexico and the US have this Flu and believe it's just the ordinary flu bug? They don't go to doctors. I never go to a doctor when I have the flu until it develops into a bronchial infection.
Even here in the states they are calling the 8 Swine flu cases as mild. So many sick people don't know how sick they may really be.
Look how many people on TB talk about coming down with some horrible flu virus.
Guess we'll know more pretty soon.:eek:
 
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Plowboy

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That site doesn't tell us a thing.
7 cases in Mexico as of 24 April? What good are those numbers.

CDC = Center for Disinformation Control...

If you have Digital Television, tune into Mexicanal Station,
they are showing up to date information on what is going on in Mexico... Over 1000 cases, 68 dead at last report.

(Mexicanal is in Spanish, but easy to figure out just from the video content ).

:popcorn1:
 
Kent

Kent

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Zulu Cowboy said:
"It is genetically different from the fully human H1N1 seasonal influenza virus that has been circulating globally for the past few years. The new flu virus contains DNA typical to avian, swine and human viruses, including elements from European and Asian swine viruses." - http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE53N4ZC20090424

'Potluck'...seems to be an apt description.

What he hell is European and Asian swine DNA, doing in Mexican hogs?

Zulu Cowboy
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Good question. While mexico imports about 20% of it's hogs, almost all are from the The US and Canada.
 
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night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
Uhm, it's the VIRI that are from Europe and Asia, which ONLY means that some European or Asian ducks had close contact with pigs before they migrated....
 
Surprise

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Last night right before went to bed, I saw a blurb at the bottom of Fox's screen that said a British Airways pilot was in ICU in England after having travelled to Mexico.
I have not heard anymore about this today.
 
45nut

45nut

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From the bit regarding how California got hit:

That Great Pandemic also touched California.

The first few cases were reported in Belvedere and San Gabriel in Los Angeles County in the last days of September 1918. The next week, more than 500 cases were reported.

In Los Angeles, local health officials were optimistic. They said, "If ordinary precautions are observed, there is no cause for alarm."

They could not have been more wrong. The disease was exploding around the state.

Within two days of issuing that statement, schools and churches were shut down to prevent the spread of the disease. Theaters were closed—sometimes for good—as they could not withstand the loss of revenue.

By the first week of November, more than 115,000 cases and hundreds of deaths across the state had been reported.

Makeshift hospitals were hastily opened to deal with the surge of patients that were overwhelming the health care system.

In San Francisco and elsewhere, mandates compelled the wearing of masks in public on penalty of fines or even imprisonment.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported, "The man who wears no mask will likely become isolated, suspected, and regarded as a slacker. Like a man of means without a Liberty Loan button, he'll be shy of friends."

A rhyme was used to help people remember the ordinance:

Obey the laws
And wear the gauze
Protect your jaws
From septic paws

Though the pandemic began to subside in November, residents still felt its effects through the holiday season. Citizens were still asked to do their Christmas shopping by phone rather than to travel to stores in person. Shopkeepers were even asked not to hold holiday sales, as they might draw crowds.
 
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