Pandemic Information News: Indonesian case of H1N1 in pigs

Pandemic Information News: Indonesian case of H1N1 in pigs

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Indonesian case of H1N1 in pigs

We heard back in April that H5N1 was adapting to pigs in Indonesia. We know it is endemic in their poultry. From April:

H5N1 Avian Virus Adapting to Pigs, Closer to Human Variation
Apr 4, 2009

The deadly H5N1 virus, a scourge among avian species in Asia, appears to have adapted to operate in swine populations, a report in the Archives of Virology finds.
The H5N1 virus - a headline-producing species that regularly ravages avian populations throughout Asia - appears to have successfully mutated toward residence in pigs. While the pig variety may be less virulent than its avian-oriented cousins, it is acknowledged among virologists that the transference to the swine environment is a precursor to human infection.
The H5N1 viruses were isolated from pigs in Indonesia and were tested on mice. The pig-oriented variation was considerably less devastating to the exposed mice than the avian H5N1 species.
"The finding suggests that in growing in pigs, the virus may have become less harmful to mammals in general, the authors report. That sounds reassuring, but the authors say it may mean the virus is one step closer to turning into a human pandemic strain," writes Robert Roos in a report for the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy.

And now we have H1N1 also in pigs....

27 Nov 2009
The Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture has officially declared that on 23 November 2009 an outbreak of pandemic influenza A/H1N1 in pigs occurred.

An outbreak investigation has been conducted by the Disease Investigation Center, Region II, Bukittinggi. 180 nasal swabs and serum samples were collected in pigs in the breeder, weaner and farrow/finishing units.

33 samples were positive for influenza A and divided on 11 pool samples, which were sent to the Indonesian Research Center for Veterinary Sciences and to the Australian Animal Health Laboratory for advanced tests. 6 samples were positive for pandemic influenza A/H1N1.

POSTED BY COMMONGROUND AT 8:43 AM

1.2.3.

Ukraine Flu Outbreak: Virus Is a Mixture of H1N1 and Parainfluenza, Causes Cardiopulmonary Failure
Interview with Dr. Victor Bachinsky 13.11.2009

Based on autopsies, we have come to the conclusion: it’s not pneumonia, but cardiopulmonary insufficiency and cardiogenic shock... The virus enters directly into the lungs, there is bleeding... Antibiotics should not be used...

Why do we have such a high mortality rate in the country?

Because people are going to pharmacies to get medicine instead of going to their doctors to be treated... No it is not pneumonic plague. It’s all nonsense... antibiotics do not help... Those with strong immune systems will survive. People with weak immune systems will succumb to the illness... Face Masks provide 30% extra protection. Wearing glasses gives an additional 10% protection, that is 40%, because the virus penetrates the mucose membranes.

The Head of the Chernivtsi regional forensic bureau, Professor Victor Bachinsky M.D. makes a strong statement: all the victims of the virus in Bukovina (22 persons aged 20 to 40 years) died not from bilateral (double) pneumonia, as previously thought, but as a result of viral distress syndrome, i.e. the total destruction of the lungs. We caught up with Professor Bachinsky, to find out how he came to this conclusion, and how people can protect themselves from this disease.

Professor, you said earlier that the virus, from which many people have died – is a mixture of types of parainfluenza and influenza A/H1N1. How do you cure this disease?

flu A-associated acute respiratory disease syndrome", or "FLAARDS."

Rufree1

http://fluboard.rhizalabs.c... .... ..Two Shoes Dropping....2time BomBsless than 5 seconds ago from web

H1N1 h1N2 h5n1

November 28, 2009 03:33am



TWO patients who were infected by a swine flu mutation that was also
recently detected in Norway have died in France, health officials say.
"This mutation could increase the ability of the virus to affect the
respiratory tracts and, in particular, the lung tissue," a statement from
the French government's Health Surveillance Institute (InVS) said today.

"For one of these patients, this mutation was accompanied by another
mutation known to confer resistance to oseltamivir," it added, referring
to the main drug being used to treat swine flu, under the brand name
Tamiflu.

The case was the first drug-resistant strain found in France among the
1200 strains experts have analysed here, the InVS said, adding that "the
effectiveness of vaccines currently available is not being questioned".

The two patients were not related and had been taken to hospital in two
different cities in France, it said.

The death toll in mainland France now stood at 76, the InVS statement said.

The World Health Organisation said yesterday it was investigating reports
of mutations in the swine flu virus, after half a dozen countries recorded
cases in which the virus was transforming.

_________________
www.twitter.com/hniman

W.H.O.

Systematic surveillance conducted by the Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN) including WHO Collaborating Centres (WHOCCs) for reference and research on influenza, continues to detect sporadic incidents of H1N1 pandemic viruses that show resistance to the antiviral oseltamivir. To date, 75 oseltamivir resistant pandemic H1N1 influenza viruses have been detected and characterized worldwide. All of these viruses show the same H275Y mutation. All these viruses remain sensitive to zanamivir. Worldwide, more than 10,000 clinical specimens (samples and isolates) of the pandemic H1N1 virus have been tested and found to be sensitive to oseltamivir.

Pandemic Information News: China expert warns of pandemic flu mutation

Pandemic Information News: China expert warns of pandemic flu mutation ........H5n1..h1n1...death

Pandemic Information News: Swine Flu surge: 18 more die in Ontario, 22 in Alberta, two in B.C.

Pandemic Information News: Swine Flu surge: 18 more die in Ontario, 22 in Alberta, two in B.C.

Pandemic Information News: Flu vaccine batch pulled in Manitoba Higher rates of allergic reaction,

Pandemic Information News: Flu vaccine batch pulled in Manitoba Higher rates of allergic reaction,

Here's my email to Washington Post columnist Ms. Applebaum in response the her assertion that the Ukraine outbreak has been small:

Ms. Applebaum,

To the extent that there have been approximately 1,500,000 people that have come down with swine flu in Ukraine during the past few weeks, 80,000 of them hospitalized, and about 350 dead, many of them due to total disintegration of the lungs (one of the signature features of swine flu), might you please tell me why you think the outbreak has been "small"?

Furthermore, the last two sentences of your op-ed piece are as follows:

"So far, swine flu is not a medical emergency, though no one says that very clearly. And if it becomes one, how will we know?"

Might I suggest that the way we will know is if reporters like you, and media outlets like yours, tell us what is really going on, rather than disseminating nonsense. The following are two examples of true journalism:

1. A description of the death of a Massachusetts 18 year old who died soon after his parents dropped him off to start his first semester of college in Ohio

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massac ... swine_flu/

2. A New York Times article about what was and is going on in Ukraine via a reporter on the ground there:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/world ... .html?_r=1

Perhaps you might do an op-ed piece on the fact that Ukrainian swine flu cases arose in early October. Yet, the first WHO response was in early November when they stated, "we have no evidence that there's been any outbreak of swine flu in Ukraine" (despite even casual swine flu watchers knowing with near certainty that that's exactly what it was). WHO then took their sweet time about assembling a team to investigate, sent them on their way some amount of days later, and then confirmed that it was, indeed, swine flu and almost 100% swine flu. Some amount of days later, they issued guidance that a Tamiflu regime should be commenced immediately for those suffering from the flu.

While the WHO was asleep at the wheel, thousands of Ukrainians' loved ones were being hospitalized and hundreds were dying horrible deaths. Now THAT'S a story that should be told.

Tell me...

Tomek wrote:

There was confusion -

said
national consultant on epidemiology professor. Andrzej Zielinski

in response to reactions to his speech

Zielinski said earlier newspaper: "the situation entitle us to claim that in Poland we have an epidemic of influenza.

Everything seems to indicate that it has caused a new influenza A/H1N1 virus.

u tell me

Inmates, staff at N.L. prison received H1N1 vaccine two weeks ago

A nurse administers an injection of the swine flu vaccine. Prisoners and staff at Newfoundland's largest prison have been given the H1N1 vaccine. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Carolyn Kaster/ file)

THE CANADIAN PRESS

o no

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has issued emergency quarantine orders for nine of the country's regions and ordered the deployment of mobile military hospitals. He announced that the nation had been simultaneously hit with two different seasonal flu strains plus H1N1 -- and then hinted that all three might have recombined into the deadly new Ukrainian super flu.

oughdutdooooo on

HOME > NEWS / SHOWBIZ > WORLD NEWS > Million hit by 'plague worse than swine flu'

WORLD NEWS

MILLION HIT BY 'PLAGUE WORSE THAN SWINE FLU'

Fears that a deadly virus could spread west from Ukraine

Sunday November 15,2009

By Greg Miskiw

Have your say(2)

A DEADLY plague could sweep across Europe, doctors fear, after an outbreak of a virus in Ukraine plunged the country and its neighbours into a state of panic.

A cocktail of three flu viruses are reported to have mutated into a single pneumonic plague, which it is believed may be far more dangerous than swine flu. The death toll has reached 189 and more than 1 million people have been infected, most of them in the nine regions of Western Ukraine.

numbers

Ukraine Dead Increase to 239 - Still No Sequences
Recombinomics Commentary 20:26
November 12, 2009

1,253,558 Influenza/ARI

65.615 Hospitalizations

239 Deaths

Run

17 cases swine flu confirmed cases ended up lethally.

Seventy A(H1N1) cases confirmed in Ukraine, 17 die

Today at 14:51 | Interfax-Ukraine

Seventy cases of the A(H1N1) flu subtype have been laboratory-confirmed in Ukraine, and 17 of these cases ended up lethally, Ukrainian First Deputy Health Minister Vasyl Lazoryshynets said at a news briefing on Nov. 11.

"But this does not mean that the other deaths were not caused by this flu virus, because everything depends on the way laboratory samples are taken and transported," he said.

Pandemic Information News: When No Number Is Right

Pandemic Information News: When No Number Is Right

tuesday nov.10,2009

Ukraine: More than 1million people now infected with mysterious disease or pneumonic plague, 2000 health workers sick

While the world still awaits the results from the WHO gene tests that has been sent more than a week ago to the WHO lab in Mill Hill, London more than 1 million people have now been infected with a "flu and acute respiratory illness" otherwise known as pneumonia.