Yeah, WHO is saying it's still increasing in China and northern India. And mixed with H3N2 (and every other horrific virus known to man) in central Africa. In other words, it is just hitting the vast majority of the humans on earth. Humans living in the great natural virus breeding grounds. Something nasty doesn't come crawling out of there, it'll be a miracle. And if you like the CDC's misinformation, you'll love what comes from the ruling Communist Chinese Army. Virtually nothing. |
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Variant of swine influenza specifically attack the lung with young children
2009-12-05
Visit to the United States is Hong Kong's Research Hospital in St. Zhu De, Department of infectious diseases, virologists Weishi Bo (Webster), Professor said that the U.S. is now the second wave of swine influenza in the fall period,....
Weishi Bo also said that Norway discovered variant of swine flu, the global Nianer 200 cases have been found, because of its viral proteins, the regional variations in the H22, so that variants of swine influenza on children under ten or highly lethal, the virus can penetrate the lungs in patients with , resulting in two deaths in Norway, the deceased black lung, such as coke.
http://pandemicinformationnews.blogspot.com/2009/12/variant-of-swine-influenza-specifically.html
A mutation in the H1N1 virus is making it harder for health officials to treat patients with the flu.
Three of the four patients infected with the mutated virus at Duke University Medical Center died Friday.
Doctors are worried because the mutated virus is resistant to Tamiflu, the main drug used to treat the flu.
Resistance to the drug is common in the seasonal flu, but rare in H1N1, said Dr. Cameron Wolfe, an infectious disease specialist at Duke.
Since it emerged, the A-H1N1 virus has constantly been mutating, authorities said. So far, most of these mutations have no clinical significance, but "occasionally we come across a virus that might have clinical significance,” Abraham said.
WHO warned that the H5N1 virus has emerged in poultry in Egypt, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam just as the H1N1 pandemic influenza continues its rampage across the world.
Not only does this place “those in direct contact with birds - usually rural folk and farm workers - at risk of catching the often-fatal disease,” but “the virus could undergo a process of ‘reassortment’ with another influenza virus and produce a completely new strain," WHO stated.
"The most obvious risk is of H5N1 combining with the pandemic ... [H1N1] virus, producing a flu virus that is as deadly as the former and as contagious as the latter."
That the two flu strain could merge, reassert, and produce a new hybrid influenza strain combining the worst elements of each of the viruses is a possibility that authorities have been worrying about ever since the spread of the A-H1N1 virus increased to pandemic level. http://www.hstoday.us/content/view/11277/149/
