Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Nepal got Swine Flu Spreads

With the increasing number of cases of swine flu in the previous 48-150, Ministry of Health in Nepal on Tuesday sounded the first alarm of swine flu pandemic, adding the actual number may be even higher since the attacks in remote communities will be reported immediately.

Ministry aware of the growing number of cases of swine flu as the two women died of swine flu this month, the first deaths reported in Nepal, after six months, reports of influenza H1N1 in Nepal.

Between two women, one 31 years Chitwan died on 5 December, after remaining in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Kathmandu Janamaitri for 25 days, while the other Bhaktapur district died on the 24th December at Bir Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal's most ancient hospital.

The names of two victims remain hidden in the use of individual families. Kathmandu is the capital city hardest hit by the virus, which represents 35 150 cases.

32 cases of the pandemic, are reported in the district Kasko, a popular tourist destination on the border, while Indian Chitwan report of 23 cases.

Six more districts confirm the occurrence of influenza in pigs, including Lalitpur in Kathmandu Valley, another popular tourist destination, and Ilam districts, SUNSARA and Morang, located along the India-Nepal border

Faced with an increased number of cases of influenza in pigs, Nepal is poorly equipped to deal with this disease with a single laboratory in Kathmandu, where confirmatory tests can be carried out.

Most patients are men aged between 15 and 45 years, with 106 cases, is about 60 percent. However, the ministry said more than 99 percent of cases were mild and patients are treated immediately.

The first case of swine flu was announced in June, when three members of the Nepali family from the United States tested positive for the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu.

Then, even though massive explosions were reported in western areas of Baglung and Parbat last month, are reported dead.

In light of the swine flu over 880 deaths in neighboring India, Nepal, which has hundreds of migrant workers is likely to live in fear of the number of recalls infected with HIV and AIDS are spreading the Republic of India closed in the past.

It also said that villages along the Indian border forces sick people from their homes amid fears that they could have a contract swine flu during their stay in India.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

2 more swine flu deadths in India

Two on the subject of swine flu today, as well as 124 new cases across the country, with New Delhi at the top of the list.

Deaths were reported from the state of Maharashtra and Assam. Today's death, and the total number of persons who have undergone the disease in the country has touched 880.

Of 124 new cases on Tuesday, the national capital accounted for 66 cases of beating, followed by Gujarat (17) and Haryana (12), the Ministry of Health.

The total number of those suffering from the disease had reached 25,236.

124 cases reported during the day, both of which have a history of travel abroad and the rest of the cases of origin.

Until yesterday, has been tested samples of swine flu 10,09,498 people in government labs and some private laboratories in all parts of the country and 23 percent of them were found

What's about symptoms of swine flu

I've had a sore throat and dry cough rarely. Today also had a slight touch of diarrhea. I feel a little dizzy sometimes. I'm not sure how long it is a normal flu or a fever. I just want to know what the symptoms are real.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Swine Flu nearly 10,000 deaths in US

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had just come out with new estimates show that the swine flu virus which has infected about 50 million people in the United States

Of this figure, the majority are children and young adults, more evidence that this epidemic has not spared the elderly.

In addition, the H1N1 virus has caused about 200,000 hospitals and nearly 10,000 deaths - 1100 of them children.

Estimates of the onset of the disease in the spring to the U. S. November 14 and update the Center for Disease Control figures from last month.

Center for Disease Control also notes the existence of a personal concern in an attempt to restore the seriousness of this disease can be: mortality rates of Indians, four times the average in the United States, mainly due to the high percentage of the population of asthma, diabetes and lack of access to quality health care.

Figures just through the pause in activity of swine influenza - infection peaked in October, and declined since then, these days, and fewer people who claim to be vaccinated. Some even call for a pandemic virus are more vulnerable.

A lot of warnings from experts in infectious diseases "only a few months ago. By this time, we were told to prepare ourselves for the population as much as half of the patients, 90,000 deaths, drowning in the intensive care unit and the absence of collective action in schools and workplaces.

However, public health officials used the truce as an opportunity to urge people to be vaccinated if a third wave of the virus to the roots in the cold winter. The flu, as we remember, can not be predicted

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Swine Flu Status in India

NEW DELHI - The swine influenza continues to create havoc in India, with a record 18 deaths Wednesday, while the total tax debt to the flu (H1N1) to 747, health authorities said here.

It was also reported 272 new cases in the country. with the total number of people affected by the flu is contagious 22,496.

While seven deaths were reported in Maharashtra, two deaths were reported in Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and the national capital. One death was reported also from Kerala.

The seven deaths in Maharashtra, the total number of people who have succumbed to the flu has risen to 247 The State continues to lead the list of messages that the maximum number of deaths in thecountry. Followed by Rajasthan, where 102 people have died so far.

In the national capital, two people died on Wednesday, while the total number of deaths due to influenza A (H1N1) in the 48th

The victims were 39-year-old woman and 50-year-old man.

"With these two deaths, the total number of deaths is 48 in New Delhi, Anjana Prakash, another officer handling cases of swine flu in Delhi, said IANSA.

The woman was admitted to Safdarjung Hospital, while the man was in the Lok Nayak Jaiprakash Narain Hospital.

New Delhi also registered 169 new cases of swine flu on Wednesday. Of these, 98 children. Takes place in the cumulative total number of cases of swine flu in the capital and in 7811, said Prakash.

To date, samples from 99,472 people were evidence of influenza (H1N1) in public and private institutions in various laboratories around the country and 22,496 of them were positive statement issued here said.

The new cases were registered in the heart of Uttar Pradesh (32), Haryana (24), Madrid (23), Rajasthan (21) and Gujarat (11).

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

What Precautions You Can Take in Swine Flu

We are now (more |) more vulnerable to various strains of influenza virus. At first we were terrified of the bird flu virus, but in recent swine influenza has become more worried. Swine flu is more serious than the bird flu ever. There are fears that bird flu could change in voltage that would infect humans, but a few cases, but this did not materialize. Swine influenza was more relaxed, he has the ability to pass between people, so it is a very serious threat.

Swine influenza (flu (H1N1) is a disease that attacks the pigs is the result of the influenza virus. Outbreaks of swine fever flu is not unusual and is rarely fatal. In the past, swine influenza is not normally infect humans, but can sometimes happen.

Swine flu is very dangerous because it is a new type of virus. This is dangerous because no one has been exposed to this strain of flu before and that nobody has built immunity to this strain of flu. For us it is built immunity to prevent diseases from becoming life threatening, have no immunity to the virus of swine influenza, a serious danger. Absolutely everyone is vulnerable, including healthy adults and adolescents, and young children and the elderly.

The real concern is what happens when flu season begins in winter. This is when the virus can spread rapidly to cause an influenza pandemic with the potential for more than half the population may be infected.

The symptoms of swine flu symptoms are similar to seasonal flu. They may include sudden onset of fever, cough, shortness of breath. Other symptoms that may occur include headache, sore throat, muscle aches, chills, sneezing, runny nose, loss of appetite and fatigue.

Preventive measures to be someone with a cold or flu symptoms should be taken in a few simple but important steps. Influenza virus is transmitted between people by droplets from the nose and mouth when sneezing and a cough. This is the way of virus spread from person to person. Holding his nose and mouth, his hands when sneezing or coughing is not enough. Bacteria live on the hands, and everything that happens after contact infected. Anyone who touches you touch something and then take the risk of viral infection. Therefore, always use a cloth or tissue. Tissue is better, it should be removed as soon as possible, try to use the new tissue when sneezing or coughing again.

At this point, vaccination is not someone stop hunting fever flu. Swine influenza virus is a new virus strain, and not the same as seasonal flu. Vaccination against normal seasonal flu is not effective against influenza virus in pigs. Although the strain of flu virus which causes swine flu identified, it will take several months to produce. At that time, it can be changed into another strain again.

The only real effective measures against swine flu is Tamiflu. Tamiflu is not guaranteed to prevent flu, but when a person is exposed to another person swine influenza virus may help prevent the virus that person is sick. If Tamiflu is taken within two days of developing flu, may help stop the spread of virus throughout the body, thereby reducing the symptoms and risks. Governments around the world, the intensity of Tamiflu, the stocks, of course, used to treat essential workers and people before starting treatment in the general population.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Swine Flu Vaccine is for everyone

As of next week to health departments in the state of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus and Gaston counties to provide an H1N1 flu vaccine for those who want it.

So far, and limited supplies of vaccine for persons at high risk for complications from influenza. But health officials say the cargo of a vaccine has become abundant in recent weeks, and that vaccines could be open to everyone.

Has decreased the incidence of this disease across the country in recent weeks, although the disease is still widespread, and federal health officials said. At the same time increase the H1N1 vaccine available.

D. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it's the perfect time for people to get vaccinated before a possible new wave of bird develops this winter. "It's really an opportunity to get vaccinated," Frieden said in a press conference in Atlanta this week.

Frieden added that the people who think they should consider the H1N1 flu vaccine still has.

"This does not mean you're protected," adding that "a lot of people may think they have a (H1N1) bird flu may not be. It may be a virus. There are a lot of viruses going around, and respiratory viruses."

Charlotte area, health officials encourage people to contact the offices of doctors and pharmacies, which can provide a vaccine better now than it has been for weeks.

People at risk from complications of flu are encouraged to get a vaccine. These groups of children and young adults up to 24 years, pregnant women and chronically ill, people who live with or care for children under the age of 6 months, health workers and first responders to medical emergencies.

Children under the age of 9 years and recommended two doses of vaccine about one month at a time. Older children and adults need only one dose.

In addition to receiving the vaccine, health officials point to the practice of good hygiene to prevent spread of flu. Include frequent washing of hands, for your cough and staying home when sick.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

List of death from swine flu in UK

This list has been compiled from publicly reported deaths in UK newspapers. It does not include

those swine flu deaths for which no details have been given.

TOTAL (as of November 26th): UK - 240, Scotland 41, Northern Ireland 13, Wales 23, England 163 (Source: HPA).

The number of deaths now means it's not possible to keep this list going. It remains however as an archive of the first 150 or so deaths.

14 June 2009 - First death - Jacqui Fleming, 38/39 died giving birth at Carnwadric, south Glasgow (UHPs*)
15 June 2009 - Jack Fleming, son of Jacqui, dies
29 June 2009 - man, 73, Paisley, Scotland (UHPs) - second Scottish death
30 June 2009 - Girl, Sameerah Ahmad, 6, Birmingham (UHPs)
30 June 2009 - Girl, 9 (family asked details to be private), Birmingham
3 July 2009 - Man, 19, South London. Serious UHPs (first to die in London)
5 July 2009 - Abdullah Patel, 42, Dewsbury, Yorks (UHPs - lung and kidney problems)
6 July 2009 - Asmaa Hussain, Dewsbury, Yorkshire
7 July 2009 - Girl, 9, Lambeth, London (serious UHPs)
7 July 2009 - Man, 80, London
8 July 2009 - Baby aged six months at Royal Free Hospital, London (UHPs)
9 July 2009 - Chloe Buckley, 6/7, West London (septic shock as a result of tonsilitis)
9 July 2009 - Dr Michael Day, Luton, 64 (UHPs - heart disease, high blood pressure, viral pnuemonia)
10 July 2009 - healthy man, Basildon, Essex
15 July 2009 - Woman, London (UHPs)
15 July 2009 - woman tourist visiting Inverness, Scotland (significant UHPs). It is not said from which country (America?) the tourist came.
17 July 2009 - person dies in West Midlands - no other details given
17 July 2009 - pregnant woman, 39, Whipps Cross, East London. Baby later dies. Mother and baby said to have UHPs
17 July 2009 - Woman, Ruptara Miah, 39, at Leytonstone (just given birth)
21 July 2009 - Girl, 15, Glasgow, Scotland (UHPs) - fourth scottish victim
22 July 2009 - man, no age given. West Midlands. No UHPs
29 July 2009 - Newham (East London). Person dies (UHPs) - no other details given
31 July 2009 - Girl, 8, London (UHPs)
31 July 2009 - Man in London (UHPs)
2 August 2009 - Godfrey Armstrong, Penwortham, Preston, Lancs, 55. No UHPs.
4 August 2009 - Soldier Lee Porter, Bisley, Surrey, 30 (no UHPs)
8 August 2009 - man, 26, Glasgow (fifth scottish death). Significant UHPs
9 August 2009 - Madelynne Butcher, 18, Southampton
14 August 2009 - adult dies in Birmingham (UHPs)
15 August 2009 - woman, 55, from Caerphilly, Wales (first Welsh victim)
22 August 2009 - Caroline Hoy, 39, Northern Ireland (First Northern Ireland victim - also suffering from cancer)
23 August 2009 - Farhin Essa, 15, Preston, Lancs. No mention of UHPs.
24 August 2009 - woman, 59, Islay, Argyll, Scotland (UHPs) - sixth scottish death
28 August 2009 - man, 52, Edinburgh; "significant UHPs" - seventh in Scotland
28 August 2009 - adult in Birmingham. Trust would not disclose age, sex or location
5 September 2009 - Boy, 7, Strood, Kent - later said not to be swine flu
11 September 2009 - Man, 53, Fife, Scotland - eighth Scottish death
15 September 2009 - Baby (Dept of Health wouldn't give age or sex) dies in Northern Ireland (second victim there). Some confusion in news reports over whether this was a swine flu death but it appears to have been included in that week's HPA figures. UHP - heart condition.
17 September 2009 - Woman dies in Lothians, Scotland - ninth Scottish victim ("significant UHPs")
20 September 2009 - Corina Richie, 21, from South Belfast, Northern Ireland - died while holidaying on Ibiza. No UHPs.
22 September 2009 - Louise Jones, 24, from Leigh, Greater Manchester. No UHPs. Announced 10 now dead from swine flu virus in NW.
1 October 2009 - Woman, 62, Forth Valley, Scotland ("significant UHPs) - tenth Scottish victim
1 October 2009 - Fifth Yorkshire victim dies - no other details given.
6 October 2009 - Child "under the age of three", from Lisburn or Co Down, Northern Ireland.
6 October 2009 - Child (no age given) in Hemsworth, West Yorks - "serious UHPs"
7 October 2009 - Aaron McBride from Killinchy, 12, died in Ulster hospital - "serious UHPs"
7 October 2009 - Woman, 43, from Carmarthenshire, Wales
9 October 2009 - Pregnant woman, 21, from Monmouthshire, Wales (baby safe and well).
11 October 2009 - A 42-year-old man from Glasgow (UHPs)
11 October 2009 - A 75-year-old man from Grampian region of Scotland. UHPs.
13 October 2009 - A 48-year-old man from Glasgow
13 October 2009 - A Fife woman aged 81
12 October 2009 - Maisie Price, aged eight, from Norwich, Norfolk. No UHPs.
14 October 2009 - A 41-year-old woman, from Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
14 October 2009 - Pregnant Denise Murray of Hawick, Roxburghshire, 17, and her baby dies, from Borders, Scotland,
15 October 2009 - David Hayes, 29, Llysfaen, north wales (died while on holiday in Spain)
17 October 2009 - Orla O'Kane, 14, Western Health Trust area, Northern Ireland
21 October 2009 - 59-year-old woman from Fife
21 October 2009 - Ashleigh Lynch, 14, Derry, Northern Ireland
21 October 2009 - Man, 69, Northern Ireland
21 October 2009 - Person (sex not stated) in Northern Ireland - bringing total in NI to ten
21 October 2009 - 58-year-old woman from Borders region of Scotland ("significant UHPs")
22 October 2009 - Two more deaths reported in Wales - no details yet. Brings Welsh total to seven
22 October 2009 - Sixteen-year-old boy from Glasgow
22 October 2009 - 54-year-old woman from Glasgow
22 October 2009 - 77-year-old man from Glasgow
22 October 2009 - 47-year-old woman from Fife
23 October 2009 - An 81-year-old woman at Paisley's Royal Alexandra Hospital, Scotland ("significant UHPs")
23 October 2009 - A 50-year-old woman at Glasgow's Western Infirmary ("significant UHPs")
27 October 2009 - Father Edward O'Toole, of St Edward RC Church and St Cuthbert's RC Church, Wigan contracted the disease while visiting the Catholic shrine at Fatima, Portugal. Aged 47.
29 October 2009 - A person in Wales (no other details given). Brings total deaths in Wales to eight.
31 October 2009 - 3 deaths in Scotland (Glasgow and Ayshire)
2 November 2009 - Elderly man in Fife
3 November 2009 - Two Ayrshire residents
6 November 2009 - Adult dies in Ayrshire and Arran area of Scotland. "gender has not been revealed for reasons of confidentiality", said to have a “significant” underlying health condition.
12 November 2009 - Man, 67, from Hutton Row, Westoe, South Shields
14 November 2009 - Adult from Greater Glasgow and Clyde area, Scotland (UHPs)
14 November 2009 - Adult from Dumfries and Galloway area, Scotland (UHPs)

* UHPs - Underlying Health Problems
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