Posted on 07/31/2009 10:32:55 AM PDT by jessduntno
Swine flu claims NorCal nurse, 2 new moms
Associated Press - July 31, 2009 1:14 PM ET
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Health officials say a Sacramento-area cancer nurse's death is the first among California health care workers related to swine flu.
Mercy San Juan Medical Center spokesman Bryan Gardner says officials at the Carmichael hospital do not know if 51-year-old Karen Ann Hays contracted the virus on the job. She died July 17.
In the San Francisco Bay area, two new mothers died from the virus, also known as H1N1, shortly after giving birth.
A 33-year-old Marin County woman was hospitalized with flu symptoms and gave birth nearly two months early. She died June 30.
The Alameda County coroner's office said this week that 33-year-old Nicole Savoy of Hayward died July 12 of pneumonia due to the virus. She had given birth June 15.
(Excerpt) Read more at kswt.com ...
this is horrible- there is something especially deadly about this to pregnant women, and kids
A 16 yr old British girl is fighting for her life in a Greek hospital, once “respiratory failure” starts it is a very grim prognosis. English stories of infection and illness are scary!
This is an eye opening read
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6722264.ece
Awful! I will redouble my prayers for all expectant moms. There are a couple in my extended family.
Prayers up to Blessed Gianna and St. Gerard Majella.
“San Francisco - the gift that keeps on giving... “
Everyone seems to forget where this ‘swine flu’ started and where it is most prominent and whose people are ‘migrating’ all over the world....especially California...
MEXICO....the gift that keeps on giving.
This is not about San Francicso
http://www.birdflumanual.com/articles/patTriage.asp
“ Type 1 patients have the poorest prognosis and almost all will die within 2 or 3 days of the development of their first symptoms. The cause of death in these patients during the 1918 flu was massive respiratory failure from overwhelming entry of inflammatory cells and fluid into the lungs, called cytokine storm. There was no effective treatment for this in 1918, and there is none today despite all the advances in medicine that have occurred over the last 90 years.
Signs and symptoms of Type 1 patients include rapid onset of severe shortness of breath, cyanosis (bluish discoloration of the skin of the hands, feet, and around the mouth and spreading centrally), or bleeding from the mouth, gums, throat, lungs, stomach, rectum and under the skin. Here is an excerpt from a letter written by a young US Army doctor assigned to the care of a large number of WWI recruits that developed influenza at Camp Devens, MA in 1918. In his letter to a colleague, the doctor describes the presentation of what we now call cytokine storm in these young healthy men.¹
“These men start with what appears to be an ordinary attack of La Grippe or Influenza, and when brought to the hospital they very rapidly develop the most vicious type of Pneumonia that has ever been seen. Two hours after admission they have the Mahogany spots over the cheek bones, and a few hours later you can begin to see the Cyanosis (a bluish discoloration) extending from their ears and spreading all over the face, until it is hard to distinguish the colored men from the white. It is only a matter of a few hours then until death comes, and it is simply a struggle for air until they suffocate. It is horrible. One can stand it to see one, two or twenty men die, but to see these poor devils dropping like flies sort of gets on your nerves. We have been averaging about 100 deaths per day, and still keeping it up.”
“Everyone seems to forget where this ‘swine flu’ started and where it is most prominent and whose people are ‘migrating’ all over the world....especially California...MEXICO....the gift that keeps on giving.”
I haven’t forgotten...it’s the “sanctuary City” of San Francisco’s Mayor who has...“San Francisco - the gift that keeps on giving... “
I think there are changes to the lungs that occur in a woman's third trimester that puts her in more danger of the pneumonia that is part of H1N1.
That, or the immune system
This killer flu kills fastest, those with healthy immune systems which turn on the body (cytokine storm)
It seems new guidelines for flu vaccination priority will put pregant woman at the head of the line
How horrifying, to be full of new life and so vulnerable to the deadliest effects of this monster disease
Pregnancy and immune system
http://www.umc.pitt.edu/rr/2002winter/pregnancy.html
That article is not about swine flu, which has a mortality rate no worse than the regular, seasonal flu.
I was wondering myself about all the hoopla about “swine flu”, when the more common varieties of flu are apparently much more deadly.
This “H1N1” form seems to be almost benign by comparison.
I’m pinging Smokin’ Joe ping list & some other freepers to a new swine flu article .
I’m wondering if pregnant or recently pregnant women have always been so vulnerable to flu causing death?
As much as I hate to use wikipedia, it states that the mortality rate for the seasonal flu averages about 0.1%. The CDC just released numbers saying 353 people in the US have died from the swine flu out of 1 million suspected cases, for a mortality rate of 0.035%.
I’m sure not very concerned...
I’ve heard some negative things about the vaccination.
It was true with the Spanish flu - pregnant women had a 100% mortality with it.
The article predates the emergence of the new, combined “swine flu”
It does describe the cytokine storm which is a mortality factor in the swine flu
BTW, the entire article has some excellent suggestions for home medical care and natural remedies- in case of a breakdown of public order and limited access to hospitals. Not pretty but practical
the “hoopla” is about who is dying (young previously healthy people), and how and how fast
Not typical for other flu
I wonder if there’s a chance the victims were vaccinated once diagnosed...
As if we don’t have enough to worry about, with the socialist health care bill, gangs taking over our southern border, and now this! It scares me to death. Our daughter is pregnant with her first child.
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