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[WAAY - WAAY News and Home] Avian Flu Found at 2 Tennessee Poultry Plants - WAAYTV.com ...: Just as fears over the H-1-N-1 Swine Flu pandemic were beginning to subside, health officials say they've discovered two separate cases of Avian Flu in southern Tennessee.

[Citizen Wells] H1N1 flu update, May 14, 2009, CDC, Pregnant women risks ...: I wanted to say a few words today about this novel H1N1 influenza virus and pregnancy.  As many of you know, pregnant women are at higher risk of complications of influenza, whether it’s the seasonal influenza or pandemics of the past.  We are also seeing some severe complications among pregnant women in this year’s novel H1N1 virus problem, and I really want to make you aware of that, because I think it’s something that can have important clinical benefit.  We have about 20 cases under investigation right now where the H1N1 virus has been found in association with pregnancy.  We’re continuing to understand the illness in these patients, and a few of the patients have had severe complications.  As I think many of you know there was one fatality in a pregnant woman.  Influenza can cause worse complications in pregnancy than in people who are not pregnant.  Important complications include pneumonia and dehydration as well as complications for the newborn, like premature labor.  We think it’s very important when doctors are caring for pregnant women who they suspect may have influenza, that they issue prompt treatment with antiviral medicines.  Sometimes, physicians are reluctant to treat pregnant women with medicines, and sometimes pregnant women are reluctant to take medicines because, of course, they are sometimes risky during pregnancy.  The experts who have looked into this situation really strongly say that the benefits of using antiviral drugs to treat influenza in a pregnant woman outweigh the theoretical concerns about the drugs.  We think that either of the two medicines that this virus is susceptible to it be used for this condition.  So, while we don’t have lots and lots of experience yet with this H1N1 virus in pregnancy, it’s important to know, to look back on what we do know about seasonal influenza and pregnancy.  We strongly recommend pregnant women receive the seasonal flu vaccine to protect them from complications of influenza during pregnancy.  And for this novel H1N1 virus, we really want to get the word out about the likely benefits of prompt antiviral treatment in pregnancy when you’re suspecting influenza.  We are going to be issuing an MMWR report with some clinical and some data about the pregnancy cases that we’ve been investigating, and I think I would look for that to come out fairly soon with a little bit more detail than what I’ve shared. 

[Breaking News from The Huntsville Times - al.com] Avian flu found in two Tennessee poultry houses - Breaking News ...: The Tennessee Agriculture Department said in a statement Monday that the strain poses minimal risk to human health and is not the strain associated with human and poultry outbreaks in other countries. Officials said the strain can cause slight illness in poultry.

[Memri Latest Blogs] Cartoon In Bahraini Paper: Between Swine Flu And Avian Flu: Source: Akhbar Al-Khaleej, Bahrain, May 7, ... May 8, 2009, 10:59 am.

[www.iraq-war.ru (en) RSS feed for articles and news] Media Censoring Lethal Side Effects Of Flu Remedies: Donald Rumsfeld’s Tamiflu pushers (just as they were in 2006) are set to be the big winners in the GSFS (great swine flu scare of 2009) lottery. Shares of Swiss drug-maker Roche Holding had fallen sharply after their latest cancer drug failure””but the GSFS came just in time to give their falling stocks a boost””just as the great bird flu scare of 2006 did.

[The Betrayal] The Betrayal » Flu Politics .. implications for Martial Law ...: Israel, if she were to either comply with the illegal requests from the United States to relinquish sovereignty and surrender land to the Palestinians or if she chooses not to comply, the result could be a Palestinian state forced into existence through war or economic pressure. The fact that Hussein Obama is even considering nullifying our 40 year old nuclear agreement with Israel by exposing the level of her nuclear arsenal and disclosing the locations of her nuclear armaments, insisting that Israel disarms, could spell out a death warrant for the small sovereign nation.

[ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed] Swine flu: features of past pandemics : Effect Measure: Modern intercontinental travel via jet aircraft by millions of persons each day will dramatically change the speed with which the next influenza pandemic moves through the world’s population. This factor, together with the highly concentrated human population within urban areas and the inherent vulnerability of our increased numbers of elderly and infirm citizens, create the conditions for a massive single tsunami-like pandemic flood that inundates the world virtually simultaneously for a prolonged continuous period.

[Promega Connections] H1N1 Influenza « Promega Connections: Sequence analysis has shown that all eight segments present in the 1918 H1N1 strain were most closely related to avian viruses, suggesting that the 1918 pandemic was caused by an avian virus of novel origin that mutated to a form that was able to infect human cells and spread from person to person (10). The novel antigenicity of the virus could partly explain the virulence of the 1918 pandemic, since people would not have been previously exposed and would have had no immunity.

[The Becker-Posner Blog] The Becker-Posner Blog: Some Economics of Flu Pandemics-Becker: The number of deaths from such a virulent flu might well be proportionately less than that caused by the Spanish flu because of important developments in the world health care system. On the one hand, the explosion in world population since 1919, the growth of cities at the expense of the countryside, and the development of air travel that led to much greater movement of persons across national boundaries imply that the spread of flu among people has become a lot easier.

[End Times Blog] Media Censoring Lethal Side Effects Of Flu Remedies: Hyping up  the hysteria, he claimed if Congress didn’t finance his convoluted pandemic influenza plan, stockpiling 80 million doses of Tamiflu at $100 per dose ($8 billion)- two million Americans would die from the bird flu. American Free Press warned readers that this was another scam, just like the swine flu scare of 1976.

[Sheepdrove's Weblog] H1N1 flu virus link to USA pig industry « Sheepdrove's Weblog: Specific to the veal crate-like metal stalls that confine breeding pigs like those on the North Carolina factory from which the first hybrid swine flu virus was discovered in North America, the Pew Commission asserted that “[p]ractices that restrict natural motion, such as sow gestation crates, induce high levels of stress in the animals and threaten their health, which in turn may threaten human health.”[31] Unfortunately we don’t tend to “shore up the levees” until after the disaster, but now that we know swine flu viruses can evolve to efficiently transmit human-to-human we need to follow the Pew Commission’s recommendations to abolish extreme confinement practices like gestation crates as they’re already doing in Europe, and to follow the advice of the American Public Health Association to declare a moratorium on factory farms.

[Featured Blog Posts - 12.160Mhz] Seasonal flu viruses contained live bird flu virus - live H5N1 ...: Our best intelligence estimate is that pandemic Avian Flu has already been created through genetic engineering in the United States, fusing the deadly genome of the 1918 Pandemic, misnamed the ”˜Spanish Flu’, with the DNA of the innocuous H5N1 virus in a growth medium of human kidney cells, according to the National Institutes of Health and the vaccine’s manufacturer. Some virologists believe that this would insure that the man-made mutant virus recognizes human cells and knows how to invade them.

[Consults] More Readers' Questions About Swine Flu - Consults Blog - NYTimes.com: It might not help the US so much since they share a border with Mexico, but for non-border countries such as in Europe where the disease has been spread mainly by returning air travellers from Mexico City, an immediate home quarantine for travellers returning from Mexico City instead of saying it was ok for them to go straight back to school or work could have helped to seriously curb the spread of the new flu virus to school children, work colleagues, and others in the wider community.

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