Posted on 11/18/2009 7:29:50 PM PST by FromLori
Runny nose, fever, cough, even pneumonia — the symptoms sound like swine flu but children hospitalized at one U.S. hospital in fact had a rhinovirus, better known as a common cold virus, doctors said on Tuesday.
Hundreds of children treated at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia had a rhinovirus, and federal health investigators are trying to find out if it was a new strain, and if this is going on elsewhere in the country.
"What began to happen in early September is we started seeing more children coming to our emergency room with significant respiratory illness," said Dr. Susan Coffin, medical director of infection control and prevention at the hospital.
Doctors and parents assumed it was the new pandemic H1N1 swine flu, which would be expected to re-emerge as schools began in September. But it was not, Coffin said in a telephone interview.
The hospital, unlike most hospitals in the United States, runs a test that can diagnose 10 different respiratory viruses, including influenza but also rhinoviruses, parainfluenza viruses and other germs that make kids sick.
"The data showed us it wasn't H1N1 but instead was this rhinovirus infection," Coffin said.
Usually rhinoviruses cause an annoying but benign illness that looks a lot like flu, but with more runny nose and usually less of a fever. This one was causing severe symptoms and even pneumonia.
"Some of these kids had really
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about time for a new virus to help the Senate pass the Obamacare!!!
Hmm ping.
So where is FEMA and the vaccine? HUH? IT’S GEORGE BUSH’S FAULT DAGNABBIT!
Can’t panic us by hyping the flu with our kids, so they will hype the cold with our kids....Pathetic.
Women and minorities hardest hit?
Now which pharma will be pimpin out the vaccine I want to get. On ground floor like big boys
Maybe this one?
http://www.dddmag.com/News-Investigational-H1N1-VLP-Vaccine-041609.aspx
I do know that a certain firm predicted over a 531% increase in profit from the sale of Tamiflu last year before the flu hit.
But you probably would have to pay a lot to get the stock for it now.
The following is from the Annual Report from 2008 for Tamiflu. There was a prediction for a 531% sales increase for 2009 wow these people are good I can only imagine the skill it takes to make such a bold prediction (who is doing the forecasting a psychic?) see page 6...
FY 2009 Outlook
Increased Sales and Income Expected in FY 2009
Due to Higher Sales of Growth Drivers
In FY2009, we expect revenues of ¥400 billion, up 22.4%
year-on-year, driven by further growth of our major
products. We project a 7.6% increase in product sales
excluding Tamiflu to ¥337.3 billion.
For the year, we forecast sales of Tamiflu to reach ¥53.0
billion, up 531.0%, due to expected resumption of government
stockpiling in FY2009 and the ongoing recovery
http://www.chugai-pharm.co.jp/pdf/annual_report/2009/eAR2009_12_04.pdf
all these swine flu cases are guesses...maybe good guesses but guesses all the same...
but I don't know how the entire nation can base its health care on the "guesses"......
Hello? Will someone please tell Dr. Coffin that she's off script?
My daughter has been sick for the past week. She has asthma, so when she got sick I had her tested at the pediatrician. It came back negative for swine flu.
Yesterday, her cough sounded horrible, so I took her to her asthma doctor. He said it could be H1N1 even if the test came back negative. If my daughter gets worse than yesterday, I’m suppoed to give her prednisone. I’m also supposed to watch out for her getting infected and needing an antibiotic.
The good news is that she seems to be better today. First day that wasn’t worse than the day before.
I think it was just a bad cold.
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