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Comment by Tara on August 28, 2009 at 9:46am

Swine flu sends more blacks, Hispanics to hospital

MIKE STOBBE

AP Medical Writer= ATLANTA (AP) — Swine flu was four times more likely to send blacks and Hispanics to the hospital than whites, according to a study in Chicago that offers one of the first looks at how the virus has affected different racial groups.

Comment by Tara on August 28, 2009 at 12:48am

California healthcare officials racing to prepare for flu season

With seasonal influenza and swine flu a threat, a large increase in the number of people seeking flu shots is expected. ERs are bracing for crowds and hospitals are setting up alternate care sites.

Comment by truth on August 27, 2009 at 4:50pm

Swine flu vaccine plan in disarray

THE Federal Government's plan to immunise the population against swine flu is in chaos because insurers may not cover doctors who administer the jab.

Inadequate testing and the possibility of spreading other infections means there is too high a risk patients will sue, the insurers say.

Canada Looks at Vitamin D for Swine Flu Protection

Part of the researchers’ goal is to understand whether vitamin D levels are in any way responsible for the fact that most people with seasonal influenza develop a mild illness, but a small minority go on
to develop severe symptoms.

According to PHAC, results from its study will indicate the extent and nature of the role of vitamin D in severe seasonal influenza.

Setting the people up to die: A conspiracy of silence about swine f...

‘It's emblazoned across the front page of USA Today, just underneath a subhead declaring Michael Jackson was, indeed, killed by a drug overdose: "Flu could infect half of USA." The article goes on to
describe the predicted number of deaths expected in the U.S. (30,000 -
90,000 Americans) as well as the actions being taken by the government
to protect Americans from the coming swine flu pandemic.

Healthy Children Needed For Swine Flu Vaccine Research

Cincinnati Children's Hospital needs healthy children for swine flu vaccine studies.

Read those consent forms carefully, parents.

Comment by truth on August 27, 2009 at 3:42am

WeAreChange Confronts the CDC Over Vaccines: Voluntary of Mandatory?

Comment by truth on August 26, 2009 at 4:06pm

Big Pharma Wants Males to Take Vaccine for Penile Cancer

Gardasil is proven dangerous, yet it is still mandatory for immigrants

MSNBC Hard Sell Propaganda for H1N1 Soft Kill Vaccination

Comment by Tara on August 26, 2009 at 12:31pm

Swine flu could hospitalize 2 million in U.S. this winter

As many as 300,000 could clog intensive care units in heavily affected regions, a new report says. But the CDC director notes that the H1N1 outbreak also could be much milder.

Reporting from Atlanta - Nearly 2 million Americans could be hospitalized during this winter's novel H1N1 influenza pandemic, with as many as 300,000 clogging intensive care units in heavily affected regions, according to a report released Monday by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Comment by truth on August 25, 2009 at 2:33pm

Polls: Half Of Doctors Will Refuse To Take Swine Flu Shot

Two separate polls of GPs in Britain have revealed that one in two doctors have severe reservations over the safety of the forthcoming H1N1 flu vaccine, raising serious questions over the government’s planned mass vaccination programme.

Order Out Of Chaos Slide During Swine Flu Conference

The following disturbing slide was part of a presentation on swine flu at the International swine flu conference recently.

Alan Watt On The Flawed Logic Of Those Pushing Vaccines On The Population (10mins 54s) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n1cdzKKlUk


Nat Acad of Sciences accidently exposes the plan for depopulating h...

Swine flu immunity to take months, but testing will be complete in ...


Speed up flu drugs, says White House panel
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090825/us_nm/us_flu_vaccine_usa

U.S. officials should help drug companies speed up the supply of swine flu drugs and vaccines, making at least some shots available by mid-September, White House science advisers said on Monday.

Calling the H1N1 pandemic "a serious threat to our nation", they also urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to quickly decide on new, intravenous formulations of flu drugs, including current drugs such as Roche AG's Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza but also BioCryst Pharmaceuticals' experimental drug peramivir.

Comment by Tara on August 25, 2009 at 11:22am

Speed up flu drugs, says White House panel

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials should help drug companies speed up the supply of swine flu drugs and vaccines, making at least some shots available by mid-September, White House science advisers said on Monday.

Calling the H1N1 pandemic "a serious threat to our nation", they also urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to quickly decide on new, intravenous formulations of flu drugs, including current drugs such as Roche AG's Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza but also BioCryst Pharmaceuticals' experimental drug peramivir.

Comment by Tara on August 25, 2009 at 12:09am

Swine-Flu Report Details Number of Potential Cases

By BETSY MCKAY
A report by a panel of scientific advisers to President Barack Obama on Monday presented a "plausible scenario" in which 60 million to 120 million Americans -- or 20% to 40% of the U.S. population -- contract H1N1 swine flu this fall and winter, and 30,000 to 90,000 people die of the disease.

Comment by Tara on August 24, 2009 at 2:37pm

Flu Strategists See Schools on Front Line

Children Key to Infection-Prevention Dynamic

By Nelson Hernandez and David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, August 24, 2009

One of the main battlegrounds in the fight against an expected resurgence of swine flu this fall will be the schoolyard, a place where the disease could, well, go viral.

People between 6 months and 24 years old appear to be particularly vulnerable to the swine flu virus, known as H1N1. And there are several reasons to think that schools could be hotbeds of infection:

Large groups of children and young adults? Check.

In close proximity? Check.

Lax sanitary standards? Check.

And with schools expected to remain open unless the virus becomes more severe, there's little standing in the way of H1N1's spread.

At the same time, schools are likely to serve as centers for mass immunizations, which could sharply reduce H1N1's reach, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local authorities. So far, the swine flu does not appear to be more dangerous than the typical seasonal flu. But medical authorities are concerned that it could infect many more people -- thereby increasing the potential number of deaths -- because so few people have immunity against it.

The mass immunization program, likely to be the largest of its kind since the polio vaccine was given to about 100 million Americans in the 1960s, will play out with some differences between states and local jurisdictions. For instance, still waiting to be resolved are questions about who gets the vaccine, whether schools are used as vaccination sites, whether parents are present when children are vaccinated and whether the vaccine is administered by injection or nasal spray.

Health officials in Virginia, Maryland and the District said that at least some school campuses will be used as vaccination sites. Schools reopen today in the District and in parts of suburban Maryland.

"There's considerable interest out there from the local health departments and school districts to do it in the schools," said Jim Farrell, director of the immunization division of the Virginia Department of Health.

Elsewhere, officials suspect that schools will be used less.

"Our school health system . . . is not very well-funded," said David Fleming, public health director and health officer for Seattle and King County, Wash. "We don't have the staff in the schools to do it. There's also the cumbersome process of getting parental permission. So doing it during school hours may not make a lot of sense."

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