1st UK death from swine flu
Discussion
Stevenj214 said:
Doesn't say swine flu killed them...just says that they had it and also had underlying health issues....Stevenj214 said:
Only if you have 'Underlying health conditions'. At the moment.
FourWheelDrift said:
What happened to bird flu?
Bird flu was banned by the EU for gender discrimination, along with Man flu.All flu strains are currently being researched at vast public expense to develop a European flu which is non-gender specific and non-racist.
Hopefully this will allow the politically overcorrect to die with a clear conscience.
If we see millions of people fall ill with H1N1 over the coming months, is gives scope for mutation.
Why do people find this funny?
World Health Organization (WHO) reported that 31% of influenza A/H1N1 isolates from 16 countries that conducted recent tests carried the H274Y mutation, which confers resistance to oseltamivir. Resistance levels ranged from 100% (10 of 10 isolates) in Australia to 13% (4 of 32 isolates) in Chile.
Emergence of the oseltamivir-resistant H1N1 virus was first noted in Norway in January, and since then researchers have found the virus in 35 countries, including the United States and Canada.
The spread of the oseltamivir-resistant H1N1 virus has puzzled experts because it has not been clearly linked to treatment with the drug.
In the case report, authors from Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam wrote that a 67-year-old man who was on chemotherapy in a 3-year battle with chronic lymphocytic leukemia was hospitalized with shortness of breath, a dry cough, and fever. On his second hospital day, he experienced acute respiratory failure, and his physicians placed him on a ventilator and started empirical antibiotic treatment.
Computed tomography (CT) revealed that the patient had patchy lung infiltrates, and tests on samples from his respiratory tract showed he had influenza A/H1N1.
On the sixth hospital day the man received oseltamivir, but by day 13 physicians discontinued the drug because sequence analysis of the virus revealed the H274Y mutation and there was no decrease in the viral load.
The authors reported that the mutation was found in samples obtained before the patient began oseltamivir therapy. The man's family and the hospital record revealed that he had had no contact with patients who were taking oseltamivir.
On the 15th hospital day the man's doctors prescribed amantadine, and after a few days his neutrophil count increased, a sign of bone marrow recovery, the group reported.
On day 20 doctors took the patient off the ventilator and instituted zanamivir treatment. However, 2 days later the man had respiratory failure again, and his medical team put him back on the ventilator and discontinued zanamivir therapy. (Like osteltamivir, zanamivir is a neuramnidase inhibitor, but no increase in zanamivir resistance has been reported recently.)
By day 26 physicians detected no influenza virus, but did note that sequence analysis showed an amantadine-resistance mutation in the viral M2 protein (L26F). They wrote that recovery of the immune system was probably responsible for clearing the virus, because the patient had received only three doses of zanamivir.
A repeat CT scan taken on day 28 showed that pulmonary infiltrates had progressed. Because of the man's poor prognosis, the ventilator was removed on day 34, and he died 3 days later.
Why do people find this funny?
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World Health Organization (WHO) reported that 31% of influenza A/H1N1 isolates from 16 countries that conducted recent tests carried the H274Y mutation, which confers resistance to oseltamivir. Resistance levels ranged from 100% (10 of 10 isolates) in Australia to 13% (4 of 32 isolates) in Chile.
Emergence of the oseltamivir-resistant H1N1 virus was first noted in Norway in January, and since then researchers have found the virus in 35 countries, including the United States and Canada.
The spread of the oseltamivir-resistant H1N1 virus has puzzled experts because it has not been clearly linked to treatment with the drug.
In the case report, authors from Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam wrote that a 67-year-old man who was on chemotherapy in a 3-year battle with chronic lymphocytic leukemia was hospitalized with shortness of breath, a dry cough, and fever. On his second hospital day, he experienced acute respiratory failure, and his physicians placed him on a ventilator and started empirical antibiotic treatment.
Computed tomography (CT) revealed that the patient had patchy lung infiltrates, and tests on samples from his respiratory tract showed he had influenza A/H1N1.
On the sixth hospital day the man received oseltamivir, but by day 13 physicians discontinued the drug because sequence analysis of the virus revealed the H274Y mutation and there was no decrease in the viral load.
The authors reported that the mutation was found in samples obtained before the patient began oseltamivir therapy. The man's family and the hospital record revealed that he had had no contact with patients who were taking oseltamivir.
On the 15th hospital day the man's doctors prescribed amantadine, and after a few days his neutrophil count increased, a sign of bone marrow recovery, the group reported.
On day 20 doctors took the patient off the ventilator and instituted zanamivir treatment. However, 2 days later the man had respiratory failure again, and his medical team put him back on the ventilator and discontinued zanamivir therapy. (Like osteltamivir, zanamivir is a neuramnidase inhibitor, but no increase in zanamivir resistance has been reported recently.)
By day 26 physicians detected no influenza virus, but did note that sequence analysis showed an amantadine-resistance mutation in the viral M2 protein (L26F). They wrote that recovery of the immune system was probably responsible for clearing the virus, because the patient had received only three doses of zanamivir.
A repeat CT scan taken on day 28 showed that pulmonary infiltrates had progressed. Because of the man's poor prognosis, the ventilator was removed on day 34, and he died 3 days later.
'underlying health conditions' is not acceptable in terms of details. As I understand it she was pregnant, and caught the flu. If her 'underlying health conditions' were merely that she was pregnant then this is a cover up.
As I understand it apart from being pregnant she was otherwise healthy.
Shes dead. Now tell us what her underlying health conditions were.
Some of you joke about this now, but when the weather deteriorates and winter starts setting in, we certainly WONT be joking about it then. Things could well look pretty fekin awful come October/November. Pretty sure there wont be quite so many glib comments about this then.
As I understand it apart from being pregnant she was otherwise healthy.
Shes dead. Now tell us what her underlying health conditions were.
Some of you joke about this now, but when the weather deteriorates and winter starts setting in, we certainly WONT be joking about it then. Things could well look pretty fekin awful come October/November. Pretty sure there wont be quite so many glib comments about this then.
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