Sickest swine flu patients require heroic measures | Health | Re. Nederlands Dagblad - Waar is de Mexicaanse griep gebleven? CDC: 28 pregnant women dead from H1N1. October 1, 2009 H1N1 flu has killed 28 pregnant women and sent 100 to intensive-care units in the United States since late August, health officials said Thursday. Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, urged pregnant women to get the seasonal flu vaccine and the H1N1 vaccine, which becomes available next week.
I just want to remind women and doctors and nurse midwives that antiviral medicine can be a very important treatment for pregnant women who have respiratory illness, Schuchat said at a briefing. The CDC has not tracked seasonal flu complications in pregnancy in the past, she said. But, she added, what we are seeing is quite striking. Schuchat said Friday’s CDC weekly update would show substantial H1N1 flu illness in most of the country. Source: upi. Flu Nightmare: In Severe Pandemic, Officials Ponder Disconnectin. The plans have been drawn up to give doctors specific guidelines for extreme circumstances, and they include procedures under which patients who weren’t improving would be removed from life support with or without permission of their families. The plans are designed to go into effect if the U.S. were struck by a severe flu pandemic comparable to the 1918 outbreak that killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. State and federal health officials have concluded that such a pandemic would sicken far more people needing ventilators than could be treated by the available supplies.
Many of the draft guidelines, including those drawn up by the Veterans Health Administration, are based in part on a draft plan New York officials posted on a state Web site two years ago and subsequently published in an academic journal. By every indication, state and federal officials expect to weather this year’s flu season without having to ration ventilators. Dr. Problems were immediately apparent. Dr. Get your own beer! Swine flu spreading on campus.
(AP) -- It's lurking in that awesome party just off the quad, hiding in the shot glasses passed from person to person and in the make-out sessions in the hallway. Swine flu is swirling through the nation's campuses, but despite all the warnings, flu kits and prominently displayed jugs of hand sanitizer, many students, like Georgia Tech freshman Elise Woodall, just aren't that worried. "I drink my orange juice," she said. "I figure I'll be OK. " College administrators around the country are faced with a nearly insurmountable challenge: trying to stem the spread of the highly contagious swine flu virus amid the almost round-the-clock microbe-swapping behaviors of college students - many of whom are not all that concerned about the impending bug. Since the first day of classes, colleges have asked students to isolate themselves once they begin coughing and sneezing, but the mild nature of this strain of flu has some students ignoring that advice, health center officials said.
On the Net: Griepvaccinaties: gedeponeerd bewijs bioterrorisme door WHO - Ee. H1N1 infected people continue to shed live virus days after the. Swine flu hid out in pigs for a decade, expert says | Health | R. Sólo el 1% de enfermos de gripe A necesitará ingreso hospitalari. Las previsiones de la Consejería de Sanidad apuntan a que apenas el 1% de las personas que se contagien de la gripe A necesitarán ser hospitalizadas. Esta predicción, elaborada a partir de informes del departamento de salud del Reino Unido y del Centro Europeo para la Prevención y Control de las Enfermedades (el ECDC, una agencia de la Unión Europea), representa unas 15.000 personas.
El ingreso no necesariamente implicaría una situación de gravedad. Las autoridades sanitarias creen que sólo uno de cada cuatro de los hospitalizados (unas 3.700 personas) necesitarán atención en unidades de cuidados intensivos. En todo caso, este patógeno es menos letal que el convencional y, de momento, sólo el 0,02% de los casos registrados en España han acabado en la muerte del paciente, una tasa inferior a la gripe estacional. Para la inmunización frente a la nueva gripe, habrá que esperar hasta noviembre, como pronto. Nederlandse zorgsector is klaar voor de Mexicaanse griep | Gezon. Nederlandse zorginstellingen zijn goed voorbereid op de grieppandemie. Dat concluderen de Inspecties voor de gezondheidszorg en jeugdzorg (IGZ en IJZ) na onderzoek onder 1115 instellingen, zoals ziekenhuizen, thuiszorg, gehandicaptenzorg, huisartsenposten, ambulancediensten en jeugdzorginstellingen. Afgelopen zomer riep Minister Klink van Volksgezondheid, mede namens minister Rouvoet van Jeugd en Gezin, de zorginstellingen op om met spoed plannen op te stellen waaruit blijkt hoe de zorg kan blijven doorgaan als de Mexicaanse griep komend najaar alsnog toeslaat.
De instellingen moeten in dat geval rekening houden met een grotere zorgvraag. Ze zullen wellicht meer patiënten moeten opvangen en tegelijkertijd te maken krijgen met ziek personeel. Uit het onderzoek blijkt dat op dit moment 82% van de zorginstellingen de plannen klaar heeft. Op 15 oktober zal dat 97% zijn, hebben ze aangegeven. Het zijn vooral de kleinere zorginstellingen die nog niet over een plan beschikken. Bron: IGZ. De Standaard Online - Waar blijft Mexicaanse griepepidemie? Twee weken na de heropening van de scholen blijft de gevreesde grieppiek voorlopig uit. ‘Dankzij de combinatie van onze inspanningen en een beetje geluk', verklaart griepcommissaris Marc Van Ranst. Van onze medewerker Volgens Van Ranst zijn er drie factoren die de piek afremmen: de intensieve controles tot halverwege juli, de bewustmaking rond hygiënische maatregelen bij de bevolking en een simpele portie geluk.
‘Een factor die altijd meespeelt in dergelijke situaties', meent Van Ranst. De meest recente cijfers over de Mexicaanse griep van het Commissariaat Influenza dateren van vorige week donderdag. ‘Om het effect van de heropening van de scholen te kunnen zien, is het nu nog te vroeg', weet Marc Van Ranst. Swine Flu Is Not Becoming More Serious. Despite the fact that the pandemic flu virus continues to infect many parts of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) says it is not becoming more serious. The death toll has hit 2,837 across the world, but the WHO says they are not counting every case anymore. The strain known as swine flu is being watched carefully by the United Nations agency, but it said no mutations have been found that could indicate that it is any more deadly than before. “It is not causing more severe illness than before, there have been no changes in the behavior of the virus,” WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl stated in a news briefing.
“We are continuing to see increased number of deaths because we are seeing many, many more cases.” Though approximately one-quarter of a million cases have been laboratory-confirmed across the globe, the WHO says that the number is considered to be modest compared to the actual number, which they no longer require its 193 member states to report. On the Net: Pulse - DH revises swine flu worst case scenario. Here's 10 things that you should know about H1N1 swine flu. ATLANTA — Since it first emerged in April, the global swine flu epidemic has sickened more than 1 million Americans and killed about 500. It's also spread around the world, infecting tens of thousands and killing nearly 2,000. This summer, the virus has been surprisingly tenacious in the United States, refusing to fade away as flu viruses usually do.
And health officials predict a surge of cases this fall, perhaps very soon as schools reopen. A White House report from an expert panel suggests that from 30 percent to half the population could catch swine flu during the course of this pandemic and that from 30,000 to 90,000 could die. So how worried should you be and how do you prepare? The Associated Press has tried to boil down the mass of information into 10 things you should know to be flu-savvy. 1.
So far, swine flu isn't much more threatening than regular seasonal flu. 2. Ordinary, seasonal flu hits older people the hardest, but not swine flu. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Source: U.S. TP: Schweinegrippe breitet sich mit "unglaublicher Geschwin. Nach der WHO-Direktorin Margaret Chan breitet sich die Schweinegrippe A(H1N1) vier Mal schneller als andere Viren aus. Der französischen Zeitung Le Monde gegenüber sagte sie, dass sich das Virus "mit einer unglaublichen, fast unerhörten Geschwindigkeit" ausbreite. Alarmierend sei, dass 40 Prozent der Todesfälle junge Erwachsene in guter Gesundheit betreffen, die innerhalb von 5-7 Tagen sterben. Bei den restlichen 60 Prozent liegen bereits Gesundheitsprobleme vor. "Das ist die beunruhigendste Tatsache", sagte sie. Der Virus führt bei den jungen Menschen direkt, so die WHO, zu Lungenkrankheiten, die auf Intensivstationen behandelt werden müssen.
Bislang sind seit April nach Chan mindestens 2.185 Menschen an der neuen Grippe gestorben und über 200.000 in 177 Ländern erkrankt. Die Deutschen sind jedenfalls noch nicht beunruhigt. Ab Oktober soll geimpft werden. In Deutschland gibt es bislang über 15.000 Infektionsfälle, aber noch keinen Todesfall. Swine flu hit 10 percent of New Yorkers - Swine flu. La OMS advierte de que la gripe puede desbordar los hospitales · Cuanto más frío hace, más sobrevive el virus H1N1. Más se propaga y más se contagia. La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) alertó ayer a los países del hemisferio norte de que se preparen para la llegada de una segunda oleada de contagios por la nueva gripe.
Un segundo pico que podría tener además "consecuencias más graves" que los de la primera (la de primavera), cuando empezaron a detectarse los primeros infectados por el virus. Sobre todo, porque el gran número de afectados que puede provocar esta enfermedad podría "desbordar" a los servicios de salud, advierten. Muchos de esos afectados serán, además, casos graves. De momento, la nueva gripe se ha cobrado ya 2.185 vidas, 21 de ellas en España. Este ejemplo debe cundir en el hemisferio norte.
La organización que dirige Margaret Chan difundió ayer un documento en el que recomienda a los países que adopten medidas de preparación para hacer frente a esa segunda oleada de contagios. Las previsiones de la OMS no son aisladas. WHO warns of severe form of swine flu | Health. Americans are getting serious about swine flu. By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY Americans are taking swine flu more seriously now than they did last spring, when the emerging pandemic began causing widespread illness and shuttering schools in several states, the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows. The poll of 1,007 adults Wednesday found that one in three people believe they or a family member probably will contract H1NI flu, up from one in five in May.
Seventeen percent say they worried yesterday that they would get flu, up from 8% in June. Sixty-one percent now accept the government's reckoning of swine flu's risks, up 5% since May. A majority of people, 55%, say for the first time that they will get vaccinated, up 9%. The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
"I'm not surprised to see that worry is increasing," says Kristine Sheedy, who heads the H1N1 vaccine communication task force for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The margin of error of the Red Cross poll is 3.1 percentage points. Swine Flu Leaves Children Vulnerable - Health Blog. One of the unusual things about the swine flu is that it often strikes young, healthy people, while skipping over the elderly. The most recent evidence comes today from the Chicago Department of Public health, which reports that kids between 5 and 14 were 14 times more likely than the those over 60 to come down with with the H1N1 pandemic flu. The overall rate of kids with confirmed cases was quite low — 147 per 100,000 — but officials say that is likely an underestimate, because many people who got the flu were never tested and not included in confirmed case counts.
The report, published today in the MMWR, summarized laboratory-confirmed cases of infection between April 24 — when it first began “enhanced surveillance” for the virus — and July 25, and provided clinical data for some of those cases. The majority of diagnosed patients experienced fever and cough; far fewer reported sore throat or shortness of breath. Image of H1N1 swine flu by C. How bad will swine flu be, really? | ZDNet Healthcare | ZDNet.co. The pendulum between panic and dismissal regarding H1N1 "swine" flu has swung back to panic. Harold Varmus, who co-chairs the President's Council of Advisers on science and technology, turned the panic back on Monday, pushing a report that 90,000 Americans may die of the disease this coming winter.
Almost immediately the CDC called the figure overblown, but the estimate may be low if people won't take precautions or decide, as many have, that the vaccine is worse than the disease. Normal, old-fashioned, run-of-the-mill seasonal flu kills 36,000 Americans each year, and people don't take that very seriously. Why worry about this one? Especially since famous people like Landon Donovan (pictured) are apparently contracting, and recovering from this flu quite nicely? Because if you don't, that 90,000 number will look low.
How many people will do that? Another factor that could raise the toll exponentially is the over-use of anti-virals like Tamiflu. Good luck. Opposition to swine flu vaccine seems to be growing worldwide -- Zosia Kmietowicz Author Affiliations As governments gear up to launch national vaccination programmes against swine flu, questions are beginning to emerge about how many people will be prepared to take up the offer of the vaccine. A survey published online this week in the BMJ found that just over half of 8500 healthcare workers in Hong Kong said they would not be vaccinated against swine flu because of fears of side effects and doubts about the vaccine’s effectiveness (BMJ 2009;339:b3391, doi:10.1136/bmj.b3391). Evidence from 11 focus groups conducted in Canada before the current pandemic also indicates that parents and healthcare workers may refuse to be vaccinated or to vaccinate their children if they believe that the risks outweigh the benefits (Emerging Health Threats Journal 2009;2:e8, www.eht-forum.org/ehtj/journal/v2/pdf/ehtj09008a.pdf).
Last week England’s chief medical officer, Liam Donaldson, shrugged off suggestions that NHS staff might turn down the vaccine … Profile of swine flu begins to emerge: study on Yahoo! Health. Health News of 51 Health News Main Filter News By: 3D Body Maps Use 3D controls to rotate and explore 10 body areas and 40+ body systems. View 3D Maps » With new leader for Obamacare, White House shifts to election mode By Steve Holland, Roberta Rampton and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kathleen Sebelius' departure as President Barack Obama's health secretary signals a new chapter in the White House's efforts to defend Obama's signature healthcare law and help Senate Democrats who face tough battles for re-election in conservative states this fall.
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H1N1 and seasonal flu: Multiple doses, many questions - USATODAY. Overuse of antivirals could make H1N1 pandemic even worse -- lat. La OMS predice una "explosión" de contagios de nueva g. Healthy people with swine flu do not need Tamiflu, says WHO | Wo. WHO predicts ‘explosion’ of swine flu - Swine flu. H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Delayed. Grippe A : la climatisation présente-t-elle un risque ? - Planèt. Tamiflu stroke 'risk' for some patients. Looming Threat: H1N1 Outbreak in the Fall. Un científico canadiense advierte sobre el peligro de la vacunac.
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