U.S. health officials caution that a new outbreak of H1N1 Swinr Flu is not only possible, but likely. Busienss Week is reporting that U.S Officials are more concerned than ever about the second wave of H1N1 Swine Flu, which is poied to hit the continental USA in early 2010.
People should get vaccinated against the H1N1 flu while there is a lull in flu activity and vaccine supplies are plentiful, Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said at a Thursday afternoon press conference.
As we come to the end of 2009, many people will remember the health scare of H1N1 Swine Flu - however, the news is good for the future and humanity’s brush with the danger of H1N1 Swine Flu:
A new study from Harvard University has found that swine flu isn’t nearly as dangerous as we first thought it was. Here’s why:
In order to be labeled a pandemic, a disease has to have a fatality ratio of 0.1%. That means it has to result in at least one death for every 1,000 symptomatic infections.
H1N1 swine flu fatality ratio is only about 0.048%, which is LESS than one death for every 2,000 symptomatic infections.
Researcher Marc Lipsitch led the study. He says, quote, “As more detailed data have become available, we have been able to improve our estimates of how severe this disease is . . .
“The good news is that, along with previous work by the CDC and others, our work shows that the severity of the H1N1 flu may be less than initially feared.”
High risk individuals should be vaccinated as soon as possible against H1N1 Swine Flu.
Risk Groups still in danger from H1N1 Swine Flu:
Young children . . . pregnant women . . . the elderly . . . people with asthma . . . and people with compromised immune systems.
Stories of children getting sicker or women becoming deformed after receiving a shot, are frightening people about how âunsafeâ the H1N1 Swine Flu Vcaaine could be. These rumors are completely untrue, as is the popular online urban legend about the US Government using the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccination Centers as a clever cover up of a secret census, or of some larger plot by the liberal left to frighten people into supporting Obama’s health care schemes.
Public health officials have noted five priority risk groups: pregnant women, healthcare employees, people aged 2 to 24, those aged 25 to 64 with chronic illnesses, and Blacks and Latinos.
Because of the widespread vaccine shortages for both the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine, and the normal seasonal flu vaccine, Google has launched an H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Find tool designed to help users find the nearest location to get the seasonal and/or H1N1 flu vaccines.
After users enter a ZIP code or town, the tool displays color-coded syringes on a map. Pink syringes indicate the availability of seasonal flu vaccinations, blue syringes represent the availability of swine Flu H1N1 flu vaccinations - pink and blue syringes mean both vaccinations are available.
The American Lung Association and HHS’s flu.gov collaborators also worked on the project.
The flu shot finder includes data for about 20 states so far, and Google says they are curretly updating the map with all US states. No word on if the map will be updated to North America or worldwide.
Discovery Channel, via youtube, has posted a very informative video on a lot of known and little-known H1N1 Swine Flu facts. For those looking to really keep track of H1N1 Swine Flu News, this is invaluable information to make sure your H1N1 Swine Flu News is correct and timely!
Some people are saying that the government is the one who is showing concern for the side-effects of the controversial H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine. The United States government has created an H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Side Effects strike force to monitor the side effects oth e H1N1 Swine flu vaccine. More on this:
Even in this day and age, aware of the dangers of the deadly H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic, public figures are still able to contract the H1N1 Swine Flu disease. If the President of Colombia can’t avoid the Swine Flu, it makes you wonder how the average person can avoid infection with this deadly strain of the H1N1 Swine Flu.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has contracted the H1N1 swine flu virus and is being treated by doctors while continuing to work from his residence, government spokesman Cesar Velasquez said on Sunday.
“He is working by telephone and Internet,” the spokesman told Reuters.
No one knows how bad the second wave of the deadly H1N1 Swine Flu could get - but schools across America are ramping up preparation for the worst flu epidemic in recent history. In Minnesota, health officials are predicting that 1.5 million Minnesotans will get the flu this fall and winter. And the school pose a special risk.
Other schools are stocking up on hand sanitizers, surgical masks and tissue boxes. A blizzard of information will go home to parents in the next few weeks via backpack mail or e-mail. Federal health officials have even suggested that schools suspend issuing perfect attendance stars and similar awards to ensure that students stay home when they’re sick.
What will YOU be doing in the fall when the 2nd wave of H1N1 Swine Flu hits a school in your neighborhood? How will you protect your children from the H1N1 swine flu?
PhysOrg.com, a noted science news site, has released the results of a new study on the H1N1 Swine Flu virus. The study contends that the H1N1 Swine Flu Virus could be more dangerous than recent results would have us believe. This raises fears that the second wave of the H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic, which is predicted to be back in the USA in the fall, will be more deadly than ever, due to the H1N1 Swine Flu Virus’ ability to infect deep lung tissue. Normal, seasonal Flu virii have been known to infect only the more shallow lung tissues, and thus are not as dangerous as the deadly pandemic H1N1 Swine Flu virus.
(PhysOrg.com) — A new, highly detailed study of the H1N1 flu virus shows that the pathogen is more virulent than previously thought.
And it is possible, he adds, that the virus could become even more pathogenic as the current pandemic runs its course and the virus evolves to acquire new features. It is now flu season in the world’s southern hemisphere, and the virus is expected to return in force to the northern hemisphere during the fall and winter flu season.
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