Posted on 06/24/2009 8:04:24 AM PDT by metmom
Within minutes, six-year-old Rubjit Thindal went from happily chatting in the back seat of the car to collapsing and dying in her father's arms.
"If we had known it was so serious, we would have called 911,'' Kuldip Thindal, Rubjit's distraught mother, said in Punjabi yesterday. "She just had a stomach ache -- she wasn't even crying.''
Rubjit was pronounced dead at hospital barely 24 hours after showing signs of a fever. Later, doctors told her parents she had the H1N1 influenza virus. She is believed to be the youngest person in Canada with the virus to have died.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.guelphmercury.com ...
14 at Duke camps contract the flu
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/durham/story/1584022.html
DURHAM — Fourteen campers and counselors at Duke University have been diagnosed with the flu, and the cases are likely related to the H1N1 virus, campus officials say.
In addition, more than a dozen other people also may have it, but their cases are not yet confirmed
Swine flu has summer camps scrambling
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/062309dnmetcampflu.3c3500c.html
Scrapes and bruises aren’t all that kids are getting at summer camp this year.
Swine flu is spreading through dozens of camps across the country, forcing some to shut down, delay openings or treat campers with antiviral drugs. It’s something they haven’t had to deal with previously, as seasonal flu has usually subsided by this time of year.
“I brought my son to the pediatrician today for high fever & a back ache. I thought for sure it would be a UTI or something like that. Instead we were told that he has signs & symptoms consistent with the H1N1 influenza.
We were also told that Massachusetts is no longer doing quick tests on patients with suspected cases of H1N1 and are instead only testing those who are experiencing difficulties with the flu.
I don’t understand this procedure, I don’t understand not treating or even testing a 6 yr old boy with a history of recurrent pneumonia.
I am beyond concerned with the lack of care and concern over this outbreak.
It’s very upsetting that we are not being informed of just how many cases there really are out there and even more upsetting that my son is potentially facing a life threatening disease that the state & our pediatricians aren’t treating or even disclosing to the other parents.
Posted by: Rebecca Reed | June 20, 2009 at 08:41 PM”
..” Posted by: a | June 19, 2009 at 01:15 PM
I am troubled by the removal of county specific reporting of confirmed H1N1 cases on this website. I can understand changing to a once a week reporting schedule but you have also removed the county location/component. This effectively eliminates my ability to make informed and preventative health related decisions for my family. As a Massachusetts taxpayer I would like to know where I can obtain this information now that it no longer available on the state site. Please post an alternate website, agency, etc. where the public may view this important information”...
..”Posted by: Joyce Lambert | June 19, 2009 at 12:29 PM
This information is very misleading. Of course the number of confirmed cases is on the decline - because last week you made the decision to test only individuals in high risk categories. It’s still out there; but doctors are following your guidance and telling people not to come into the office or the ER and just to stay home. I agree with that, but how can you make a statement that the numbers are declining? You actually have no way of knowing that since you have stopped testing to confirm cases.”
Soaring Death Rate in Buenos Aires Raises Pandemic Concerns
Recombinomics Commentary 18:03
June 27, 2009
“We’re seeing the placement of young patients, between 15 and 50 years with pneumonia, some rapidly evolving towards a gravity which for many is unusual, in which the lung is’ fire ‘in a matter of hours,” said Dr. Jorge San Juan, head of the Department of Intensive Care Hospital Muñiz.
This has led to patients with these characteristics begin to be treated in an increasingly aggressive. THE NATION As reported yesterday, doctors from the Ministry of Health received the directive to take, from now on, all cases of influenza and potential influenza A (H1N1), with the recommendation to perform chest radiographs for patients with symptoms of fever and fatigue and internal quickly to all suffering from pneumonia.
“The bodies were viscera, meninges and brain swollen, a little common factor in death from influenza. Additionally, the lungs were in bad shape, with some spots we could not identify. The studies sent pathology, “said the coroner who asked not to publicize his name until the health authorities take note of it found.
The above translation describes patients in and around Buenos Aires (see updated map). In the past few days 26 confirmed fatalities have been reported as well as 15 additional probable fatalities. H1N1 infections of swine on a nearby farm (see map) has also been described in an OIE report.
The targeted population, as well as the description of the rapid deterioration sounds remarkable like reports on the 1918 pandemic.
Sequence data on these patients and swine would be useful. It is the beginning of flu season in Argentina, and the potential for the evolution of a more virulent Pandemic H1N1 looms large.
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06270901/H1N1_Buenos_Aires.html
Soaring Death Rate in Buenos Aires Raises Pandemic Concerns
Recombinomics Commentary 18:03
June 27, 2009
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This is not good.
I hate that it is hitting young people and breaking down their immune systems in such a short time.
I hope our country is ready for this.
Good question.
Sounds like overkill.
Did I say that?
Buffalo girl dies from Swine Flu
http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/Buffalo...e_Flu_20090627
Buffalo girl dies from Swine Flu
Second child in Buffalo to die from Swine Flu
Updated: Saturday, 27 Jun 2009, 6:03 PM EDT
Published : Saturday, 27 Jun 2009, 6:03 PM EDT
* Rob Macko
* Posted by: Emily Lenihan
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - A young Buffalo girl, just shy of her 10th birthday, has lost her life to the Swine Flu.
News 4 received news of her death late Saturday afternoon.
This is the second child to die from the virus in a week.
9-year-old Maya Harden died just after 9:30 Saturday morning at Women and Children’s Hospital.
She’d been on life support for 11 days, and had contracted pneumonia and MRSA. She would have been ten on July 18th.
Harden was a fourth grader at the Charles Drew Science Magnet School 59 Museum Campus.
Akea Hollingsworth says her only child loved music and theater. Beyonce was her favorite singer.
Harden’s death comes exactly one week after 15-year-old Matthew Davis, an eighth grader at Buffalo’s Harvey Austin School 97, died from swine flu complications.
“She’s up there in heaven with Matthew. I don’t think their deaths are in vain. I think now we will start doing more from the hospitals to the schools. We won’t let it get this far because some of this could have been avoided. Both of them were healthy children,” said the Maya’s mother Akea Hollingsworth.
Hollingsworth is urging parents to go with their intuition.
She says they should demand answers and take immediate action if they believe their kids are at risk.
Copyright WIVB.com
another little one lost in New York....
Buffalo girl dies from Swine Flu
Second child in Buffalo to die from Swine Flu
Updated: Saturday, 27 Jun 2009, 6:03 PM EDT
Published : Saturday, 27 Jun 2009, 6:03 PM EDT
Rob Macko
Posted by: Emily Lenihan
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - A young Buffalo girl, just shy of her 10th birthday, has lost her life to the Swine Flu.
News 4 received news of her death late Saturday afternoon.
This is the second child to die from the virus in a week.
9-year-old Maya Harden died just after 9:30 Saturday morning at Women and Children’s Hospital.
She’d been on life support for 11 days, and had contracted pneumonia and MRSA. She would have been ten on July 18th.
Harden was a fourth grader at the Charles Drew Science Magnet School 59 Museum Campus.
Akea Hollingsworth says her only child loved music and theater. Beyonce was her favorite singer.
Harden’s death comes exactly one week after 15-year-old Matthew Davis, an eighth grader at Buffalo’s Harvey Austin School 97, died from swine flu complications.
“She’s up there in heaven with Matthew. I don’t think their deaths are in vain. I think now we will start doing more from the hospitals to the schools. We won’t let it get this far because some of this could have been avoided. Both of them were healthy children,” said the Maya’s mother Akea Hollingsworth.
Hollingsworth is urging parents to go with their intuition.
She says they should demand answers and take immediate action if they believe their kids are at risk
http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/Buffalo_girl_dies_from_Swine_Flu_20090627
Link 90 has an error but link 91 was working :)
ping to post 91
Isn’t the Women and Children’s hospital what used to be just Children’s Hospital?
Robert A. Derzon, First Director of Medicare and Medicaid, Dies at 78
http://www.ocala.com/article/20090627/ZNYT04/906273004/1171/WEATHER?Title=Robert-A-Derzon-First-Director-of-Medicare-and-Medicaid-Dies-at-78
Robert A. Derzon, the first director of the federal agency that manages Medicare and Medicaid, died June 17 in Orangeville, Ontario, where he was visiting a friend. He was 78 and lived in Mill Valley, Calif.
The cause was swine flu, Mr. Derzon’s son Mike said.
Mr. Derzon, who had previously been deputy commissioner of New York City’s Department of Hospitals, was chosen by President Jimmy Carter in 1977 to head what was then called the Health Care Financing Administration.
Argentina will enter into emergency
28/Jun/09
The health authorities confirmed yesterday that Argentina would soon declare a health emergency in that country due to the advance of influenza A, which so far caused 26 deaths and 587 thousand people infected.
Stated that the number of infections is higher than the official and the hospitals are on the verge of collapse, are also studied 967 other samples of persons suspected of having contracted the H1N1 influenza.
Meanwhile, in Bolivia 17 new confirmed cases of influenza A, bringing the number of affected rises to 76. In Brazil there were 69 other cases, bringing to 591 the total.
Also confirmed six new cases of influenza A in Colombia, making a total of 79, including two deaths. In Uruguay, a woman of 22 years with three months of pregnancy, became the first serious case of that country.
http://www.ojo.com.pe/nota.php?nota_id=50242
Buenos Aires with suspect
The grave risk of concealing the health crisis
28/Jun/09
There are strong rumors that the number of illnesses and deaths from influenza A is much higher than officially admitted.
The statistic was never the strong point of Argentina, but in recent times, intervention by INDEC, lost almost all credibility.
The problem is that there are strong suspicions in the health system that this’ mode ‘to conceal the bad news would have been implemented in recent weeks with the case of Influenza A.
In different public hospitals doctors and nurses admit that the number of cases of Influenza A daily serving not coincide with the figures reported officially.
In the private sector recognized a similar picture, but shift responsibility to the Government.
The topic is of high gravity and puts a magnifying glass, too, about the daunting task that comes cumplieno Malbrán the Institute, whose specialists are responsible for identifying cases of influenza A.
But it also opens a question about some ‘instructions’ that would have been falling since Intendencias towards governors and hospital authorities to stop the spread of cases until after the elections.
Even before this uncertain outlook, the Argentina and admitted 27 died from influenza A H1N1 and is the fourth country with more cases in the world.
http://www.asteriscos.tv/noticia-21383.html
More on the little girl reported yesterday...
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/buffaloerie/story/717103.html
06/28/09 07:05 AM
Second Buffalo student dies of swine flu
By Ja’Nay Carswell
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
A 9-year-old Buffalo girl died of swine flu Saturday — the second Buffalo School District student to die of the disease in a week.
Maya Harden, who had been in critical condition in Women & Children’s Hospital for almost two weeks, died Saturday, her mother said.
“They tried everything to get her lungs circulating,” Maya’s mother, Akea Hollingsworth, said later in the day.
The girl’s death comes one week after 15-year-old Matthew Davis, an eighth-grader at Buffalo’s Harvey Austin School 97 on Sycamore Street, died from swine flu complications.
Maya, a fourth-grader at the Charles R. Drew Science Magnet School 59, first went to the emergency room June 12, because of flulike symptoms, her mother said.
Doctors thought it was pneumonia, and she was sent home to recuperate.
At first, Maya seemed to be getting better, but then took a turn for the worse, her mother said. Hollingsworth took her back to the hospital June 14.
Maya was again sent home early the next morning, but became lethargic, Hollingsworth said. On June 16, Hollingsworth took her daughter to the hospital for the third time in less than a week.
Over the past 11 days, Maya had been in critical but stable
condition. She died Saturday morning.
In Matthew’s case, by the time Matthew entered the hospital, he was seriously ill with the flu, as well as co-infected with a type of bacteria known as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
MRSA has been a problem in hospitals and nursing homes for decades, but has also spread to otherwise healthy people in the community, living normally on the skin and in the nose and throat. Research suggests that the overuse of antibiotics has contributed to the problem.
This bacteria can cause infections of the skin, nose, throat and ear. But in a small number of cases, especially in patients with weakened immune systems, it can lead to life-threatening pneumonia and blood infections.
It was unclear Saturday whether Maya suffered similar complications.
Hollingsworth talked about her daughter.
“She was a beautiful little girl,” the mother said. “She was boisterous, full of personality. She was healthy with no severe health issues. She had a sense of humor, very caring. She would give the shirt off her back to someone that needed it.”
Maya was a huge Beyonce fan. Just before Hollingsworth spoke with The Buffalo News by phone Saturday, she listened to Beyonce’s song “Halo,” which will be played at Maya’s wake.
“Everything happens for a reason,” Hollingsworth said. “God doesn’t put more on you than you can bear.”
James A. Williams, district superintendent, issued a statement.
“It is with a heavy heart and deep sadness that . . . we mourn the loss of another student. Please keep the family in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time while they struggle with this terrible loss.”
Williams also pointed to the seriousness of the disease.
“. . . We ask parents again to remain vigilant in stopping the spread of H1N1. Please have your child wash and sanitize their hands as often as possible. The best way to remain disease free is to maintain proper hygiene and wash your hands on a regular basis.”
Philip Rumore, president of the Buffalo Teachers Federation, also expressed condolences.
He said the teachers union has made some recommendations to the district, including making schools a site for flu shots and having hand sanitizers on the school buses, as well as the classrooms.
The district also needs to make a greater effort to let parents know that if their child has a high fever they should go to the doctor and not to school, Rumore said.
“We have to all work together to ensure that no other parent or child has to go through this,” Rumore said.
And as Hollingsworth grieved for her daughter Saturday, she also thought about Matthew Davis.
“Her and Matthew’s death hopefully are not in vain,” she said. “They are now angels looking down from heaven.”
Updated June 28, 2009 | 12:32 a.m.
Former Bradford pitching star dies after 10-day illness
KENOSHA NEWS STAFF
Sam Schissel, who carried the Bradford baseball team to the WIAA Division-1 State championship in 2008, died at his Somers home Saturday morning after a 10-day illness.
He would have been 19 today.
Somers Rescue personnel responded to the home where he lived with his mother after she called about 9:36 a.m. and said he wasn’t breathing. Emergency personnel tried but couldn’t revive him. He was taken to Kenosha Hospital.
Kenosha Sheriff’s officials said reports were that Schissel had been suffering from flu- or pneumonia-like symptoms. The teen’s father, Jim Schissel, said his son had had a fever, had seen a doctor and had taken antibiotics. Jim Schissel said he didn’t know whether an autopsy was scheduled.
He also is survived by his mother, Nicolet Derose; a sister Talia Derose and a brother Michael Derose.
“This is just horrible,” Bradford baseball coach Matt LaBuda said. “I thought Sam was a super kid, a great team player. Anybody that played with him, got along with him. Sam had an infectious smile and personality. He was a guy that everybody wanted to be around.”
http://www.kenoshanews.com/news/former_bradford_pitching_star_dies_after_10day_illness_5488411.html
Flu pandemic: Can JA cope with the economic impact?
Major flu pandemics have occurred three times over the last century beginning with the Spanish Flu in 1918, followed by the Asian Flu in 1957 and the Hong Kong Flu in 1968. There have been several other pandemics but of smaller proportions such as SARS, avian flu and HIV/AIDS which is currently presenting a tremendous challenge to many countries across the world.
It is generally accepted that major pandemics have a 10-40 year lifecycle. With the last one occurring in 1968 many are of the belief that the next pandemic is inevitable. Although it is difficult to predict the actual timing and severity of the next pandemic what is even more difficult is to forecast the economic impact it would have across economies.
The World Bank (2008) has indicated that a severe flu pandemic could push the world economy into a recession resulting in a contraction of global gross domestic product by approximately US$3 trillion while the death toll is expected to reach 71 million. The report further indicated that some 60 per cent of this decline would come about because of behaviour modification by individuals trying to avoid infection. The anticipated behavioural change is expected to have an adverse influence on economic activities in areas such as tourism, transportation, retail and distributive trade and would, also, lead to lower productivity and higher absenteeism at the work place.
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The study argued that an infected worker will require 10 working days to recuperate. An influenza pandemic normally strikes in several waves. The 1918 pandemic occurred in three waves while the 1857 and 1968 pandemics had two waves, each. Typically, according to a KPMG study, the most intense of these waves last for approximately two weeks usually occurring during the fourth and 11th week from the start of the pandemic. Further when estimating the economic effect in many cases some times it is useful to separate the demand from the supply impact of the pandemic.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090628/focus/focus6.html
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