TUESDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) — With all the warnings and preparations, dire predictions and hastily ordered vaccines, could the growing worry about H1N1 swine flu prove more disruptive than the actual outbreak?
That notion is weighing on the minds of more than a few infectious-disease experts as the fall and winter flu season looms.
The cold season is upon us, and with it comes flu season as well. Making things worse is the global swine flu outbreak.
According to a recent CNN report, the U.S. will acquire as much as 600 million doses of the swine flu vaccine, which is enough for around 300 million people, with the priority groups being pregnant women, children over six months of age with chronic illnesses, adults with chronic health conditions such as asthma and obesity, and health workers.
London, September 11 (ANI): Scientists at Imperial College London have warned that pandemic swine flu can infect cells deeper in the lungs than seasonal flu can.
They write in a research paper that this may help understand why people infected with the pandemic strain of swine-origin H1N1 influenza are more likely to suffer more severe symptoms than those infected with the seasonal strain of H1N1.
We’re now up to 147 cases and it’s increasing huge amounts each day. There are more cases of swine flu here than any other country in the world apart from Mexico. Why are there so many?
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It appears that the swine flu could cause more deaths among the teenage crowd than younger kids, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The organization analyzed 36 pediatric deaths out of those occurred until August 8 and determined that over 80% of them have occurred in children between the ages of 5 and 18. However, in previous flu seasons, about 50% of deaths from the regular flu were among those aged 5 and over.
TUESDAY, Sept. 1 — Fears that the H1N1 swine flu will turn into a “superbug” this year may be unfounded, say researchers at the University of Maryland.
In laboratory tests, the virus responsible for the swine flu pandemic did not take a virulent turn when combined with other strains of seasonal flu. But it did spread more rapidly than the other viruses, confirming the need for swine flu vaccinations, the researchers said.
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A swine flu outbreak occurred in Mexico and the United States in April 2009 and spread rapidly around the world by human-to human transmission. The new type A H1N1 influenza virus is unlike any that had been previously isolated [1, 2], judging from the first data released in May.
Despite our best efforts, all diseases have not been eradicated, and periodically, one gets out of control, or so it appears. The recent outbreak of H1N1 flu, popularly called the “swine flu,” at first appeared to have the potential to reach epidemic proportions, though the persistent throwing around of the term “pandemic” was undoubtedly excessive. Nevertheless, as with all dangerous communicable diseases, maximum caution to prevent the spread of this flu was certainly in order.
There are numerous reasons why we can safely conclude that swine flu vaccines against the H1N1 virus do more harm than good.
As mentioned in “ Bild “, Doctor Wolfgang Wodarg, who is the chairman of the health committee of the German parliament, has serious doubts about these vaccines, which contains cancerous cells from animals. All over the world people are asking questions why we are supposed to get vaccinations against a flu that is at the same time less dangerous than the “normal” yearly seasonal flu.