Child dies of swine flu in the US
Posted on April 29, 2009 by by scoop
A two-year-old child from Texas had died of the Swine Flue in the US
This is the first confirmed death in the US from the Swine Flue virus. The virus has killed over 150 people and roughly 2,500 illnesses in Mexico.
There are also 31 suspected cases in Queensland, 19 in Victoria, 14 in South Australia, 10 in New South Wales, 8 in Western Australia, 6 in ACT, 2 in Tasmania and one in Northern Territory.
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has died. I assume he still is?
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@ loquacity – indeed
I thought that number (150) had been toned down by the mexican govt…..since a number of those had died from the more common influenza strain and not the actual H1N1(??) strain.
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No idea. You don’t seem to see the same numbers twice.
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I thought only seven people died from it? I heard that on the news, but then I also heard 12 people and so on. Good thing we only have 5 tv channels around..
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5 TV channels = 5 different numbers
n internet streams = n different numbers
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This is somewhat reassuring. And it’s at least halfway official-looking (that always helps, right?):
http://www.aushealthcare.com.au/news/news_details.asp?nid=13711
L
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This is authoritative:
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/index.html
Raised to phase 5 status today.
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What does phase 5 mean?
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pandemic
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http://www.who.int/csr/disease/influenza/phases5-6.gif
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Aushealthcare reports 20 confirmed deaths in Mexico and none in the US, I thought one child died in the States yesterday?
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1 did die, but i think the child was a mexican that had travelled/moved to the US or something..
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I see, thanks Cristian.
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That was probably the fastest reply to one of my comments ever.
It is good to see people not only sharing articles, reports, news, opinions and other information but also trying to answer questions.
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Article on Wired discussing the probable cause and genesis of the current strain: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/swineflufarm/
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Sorry this is too good not to share:
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/2410/image001x.jpg
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I was discussing swine flu with some mates yesterday. one comment that came up was whether there would be a beef or lamb flu, any time soon. Not very PC, but they wondered if it could drive the cost of these other meats down…
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