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Thu Jun 11, 2009 at 11:50:34 AM EDT
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WHO declares swine flu pandemic (Open this diary to read more.)
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Wed Aug 27, 2008 at 19:04:28 PM EDT
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This diary is to discuss the situation in India and Bangladesh. Post your stories and discussions here.
Previous diary can be found here.
Maps of India and Bangladesh can be found here.
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Mon Jun 30, 2008 at 03:19:36 AM EDT
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Work on the Pandemic Preparedness Capacity Project, a new tool for InterAction and USAID that will be used to help prevent the spread of catastrophic disease outbreaks, especially bird flu [I guess he means pandemic flu], has just finished. Fuller comments here. I wonder if newshounds qualify as a "data entry" entity.
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Mon Jun 23, 2008 at 07:00:35 AM EDT
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This is a restart of the old Medclinician 3 a.m. Avian Flu Diary. It has been several years now since I began posting seriously online concerning the coming Pandemic when I posted in March 2006 "Not if, but when."
December 14, 2008 Update
First, my thanks to the Admin of Flu Wiki for being able to continue my Flu Diary here. Briefly Bird Flu is sweeping across Asia. Over the last two months it has hit multiple locations, including India, and now Hong Kong and seems to headed for Korea.
We are seeing mutations and recombination which in one recent study published 12/12/08 show 24/25 flu samples resistent to Tamiflu. Considering this is the drug of choice and it has not been withdrawn as a recommended treatment, one finds this a bit strange. Why give a drug that does not work and has been proven to not only not be effective, but also further creates resistant strains.
Well, may the reader form their own conclusions on this. In the drug industry, many is the drug that has been proven totally useless for what it is prescribed for and may even make it worse. Example, the use of steroids in human avian which then creates a cyto storm and death.
Avian Flu and even seasonal flu is serious business - and I think the word business is why antibiotics continue to be given for viral infections creating horrific strains of MRSA and VRSA.
January and February are usually when we go fever pitch with the new strains and already we are seeing wide outbreaks and very little reporting.
If this was a new column I would list links to all of the above, but since it is simply a diary, I will just leave it at that.
Oh, btw, do watch out for the much under reported nasty nasty lung fluish thing which most of the people I know have (me included 103 temp), or have fought for weeks. Bluebird has it as we speak and is battling it in her lower lungs.
Z-Pak seems to be the antibiotic being .. um given out and perhaps IMHO this will keep down the nasty bug bugs in the lungs from creating havoc and death. Z-Paks is pretty hefty but if they keep giving it out like breath mints-it effective life span isn't going to hold out much longer.
Have a great Xmas and I am writing.. that is all I will say here until the critter is born.
Our prayers are with you.. Bluebird, Little Skye, and myself.
Medclinician
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Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 04:37:58 AM EDT
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/sto...
Australia announced a new generic vaccine, Panvax, for H5N1 pandemic flu a few hours ago. There is currently a radio broadcast on the news release, I am transcribing in real time as I'm listening to the 6pm report on ABC Radio National by reporter Mark Colvin.
Main points not contained in the media release url above:
- 10% chance annually of pandemic says John Horvath, Chief Medical Officer
- 200k deaths in Australia from pandemic as estimated by Lowie Institute ( is that with the vaccine?)
There was no good information on the vaccine. Not discussed whether egg based production or high volume method developed. Did say it could be modified quickly to the emergent strain.
- based of latest strains but would need to be modified to pandemic strain. I will attempt to get some real info tomorrow.
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Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 08:04:55 AM EDT
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This Diary is to report and discuss the situation in South Korea
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Sun Apr 06, 2008 at 08:19:14 AM EDT
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This diary is to discuss the situation in India and Bangladesh. Post your stories and discussions here.
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Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 08:19:43 AM EDT
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Post your news stories that don't seem to be H5N1 news, but might be notable or possibly related.
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Sat Mar 01, 2008 at 19:55:34 PM EST
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This diary is to discuss the situation in India and Bangladesh. Post your stories and discussions here.
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Sat Feb 09, 2008 at 14:09:58 PM EST
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This diary is to discuss the situation in India and Bangladesh. Post your stories and discussions here.
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Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 00:50:34 AM EST
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Maps from 11/13/07
This diary is to track news regarding Indonesia. Please post news articles and comments relative to specific news articles on this thread. For other discussions or questions related to Indonesia, please go here.
If you identify new cases, please post a summary of the relevant information here
to help other news searchers quickly see recent updates. Go here for Priority Stories.
The summaries prior to May 11 are here.
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Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 20:22:11 PM EST
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Fri Jan 25, 2008 at 11:17:50 AM EST
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Maps from 11/13/07
This diary is to track news regarding Indonesia. Please post news articles and comments relative to specific news articles on this thread. For other discussions or questions related to Indonesia, please go here.
If you identify new cases, please post a summary of the relevant information here
to help other news searchers quickly see recent updates. Go here for Priority Stories.
The summaries prior to May 11 are here.
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Thu Jan 24, 2008 at 21:04:56 PM EST
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This diary is to discuss the situation in India and Bangladesh. Post your stories and discussions here.
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Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 22:30:25 PM EST
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This Diary is to report and discuss the situation in Egypt.
NEW map by Okieman (added by DemFromCT):
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Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 16:59:36 PM EST
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India and Bangladesh are seeing increasing numbers of H5N1 infections. Post your stories and articles here...
(Does anyone have maps similar to the Pakistan and Egypt maps?)
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Sun Jan 13, 2008 at 08:27:30 AM EST
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This Diary is to report and discuss the situation in Egypt.
NEW map by Okieman (added by DemFromCT):
...Thanks to Theresa42, pugmom and all other newshounds involved for their diligent work. Kudos to Carol@SC for providing the spreadsheet with this information. Copy of post by Theresa42: "Thanks to commonground, pugmom, Carol@SC, LaidbackAl, flubergasted, Dr. Niman and others for working on sorting out all these suspected cases!"
The previous Egypt News Diary is here.
Additionally, a Link to Dr. Niman's map was provided by maryinhawaii. Note: The table and data here have not been agreed to Dr. Niman's information.
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Thu Jan 10, 2008 at 16:14:18 PM EST
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Post your news stories that don't seem to be H5N1 news, but might be notable or possibly related.
Old Diary here
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Sat Dec 15, 2007 at 22:29:25 PM EST
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About to get bowled over by a major winter storm? Find out if you should freshen your preps sooner rather than later, and indulge your inner-weather-geek right here.
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Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 22:29:20 PM EST
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( - promoted by Bronco Bill)
This diary is for Ebola updates, currently being reported from Uganda. Feel free to place stories and links here.
There is a lot of news regarding the current Ebola virus making it's way through Uganda right now. This is a new strain of the virus, and currently has an extremely high CFR.
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