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!
Could California already be experiencing the forerunners of the dreaded second wave of H1N1 Swine Flu? A mysterious H1N1 Swine flu death in San Diego county has medical officers there concerned.
San Diego County health officials are investigating the swine flu death of a 20-year-old Escondido woman, trying to determine why the virus quickly became fatal to a seemingly healthy person.
Palomar Medical Center director Dr. Don Herip said Wednesday that the woman, identified by the coroner’s office as Adela Chevalier, began experiencing mild flu symptoms on Friday, including a cough and fatigue. He says by Monday she was running a high fever, having trouble breathing and suffering severe muscle aches. She died at the hospital’s emergency room later that night.
Are deaths on the rise in California? Two Counties have recorded deaths just today, and more cases are still emerging at an alarming rate. Remember, California was the first major H1N1 Swine Flu outbreak in the USA when it first came out of Mexico.
Another death from Swine Flu H1N1 has been reported, this time outside of North America, where all H1N1 Swine Flu deaths have so far taken place. The United States has had 2 deaths from h1N1 Swine Flu, Canada reports 1 death from H1N1 Swine Flu, and Mexicao reports 45 Swine Flu H1N1 Virus deaths.
Costa Rica reported the death of a 53-year-old patient with swine flu on Saturday, the first death from the epidemic outside of a North American nation, while Japanese authorities scrambled to limit contacts with their first confirmed cases of the disease.
Worldwide: 3440 cases
United States: 2254 total cases of Swine Flu H1N1 flu, 2 deaths, 44 states have H1N1 Swine Flu Infections. The number of cases in the United States went from 1,639 to 2,254, with 104 people hospitalized, between Friday and Saturday afternoon.
H1N1 Swine Flu Cases Double In US Number of H1N1 Swine Flu Infections To Reach 1 Billion By July.
1639 confirmed cases of Swine Flu H1N1 virus.
2 Deaths
43 states have infections.
This is the hard news delivered by the normally conservative CDC today, Friday, May08 2009. The United States now has more H1N1 Swine Flu than any other country. The number of H1N1 Swine Flu virus infections in the United States doubled. Only mexico has more deaths from swine flu H1N1 Virus than the United States.
The CDC is now estimating that the number of cases worldwide of H1N1 Swine flu could reach 1 billion cases by the summer. Normally, the summer is the time when influenza virii have the most problems reproducing and spreading, but apparently the H1N1 Swine Flu shares more traits than was previously thought with the 1918 Swine Flu H1N1 Pandemic. That Swine Flu strian was also more resistant to heat, and therefore was able to spread unabated during the summer months.
The World Health Organization said Thursday that up to 2 billion people could be infected by swine flu if the current outbreak turns into a pandemic. The agency said a pandemic typically lasts two years.
WHO flu chief Keiji Fukuda said the number wasn’t a prediction, but that experience with flu pandemics showed one-third of the world’s population gets infected.
“If we do move into a pandemic then our expectation is that we will see a large number of people infected worldwide,” Fukuda said. “If you look at past pandemics, it would be a reasonable estimate to say perhaps a third of the world’s population would get infected with this virus.”
The H1N1 Swine Flu is though to be on the decline right now in North America, where it is currently most prevalent – but based on past Swine Flu or H1N1 Flu infections, there will be multiple waves of the Flu, with varying levels of danger. Curreently the H1N1 Swine flu is invading South America, where it is prime flu season, sparking fears that the Swine Flu H1N1 Virus may mutate further and come back to North America later this year in a more virulent, contagious and dangerous form.
