BREAKING UPDATE August 11, 2015 / 591 cases / 300 deaths from H7N9 . MERS CoV 1352 Cases, 479 deaths

It is amazing it shows how one cure could set you up for a worse fate.

Yup. I remember reading about this after the H1N1 made its rounds. Makes me very glad that my family doesn't take the jab.

Yes well you will love this vulnerable people in the U.K get a seasonal flu jab, so this includes O.A.Ps and others.This flu shot includes the H1N1 vaccine and there is no alternative to this jab, they say it is 100% safe!!!

The only time you should get a jab is when your life depends on it.

Taiwan's first case of H7N9 confirmed cases is trying to rescue the newly discovered 13 suspected cases

Epidemic Command Center informed at a regular press conference that day, at 8:00 on the 25th to at 8:00 on the 26th, received a total of 13 suspected cases communications, including two cases of inspection, the rest has been ruled out H7N9 infection.
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China is set to hold an extended Labor Day holiday shortly, the Tourism Bureau expects over 5,000 mainland Chinese tourists will come to Taiwan daily during this period.

We are very fortunate that none of us are 'required' to take a flu shot for work. My daughter is exempt from any vaccines due to a family history (me) of severe allergies.

So you have the same set up in Canada, and by giving everyone the h1n1 vaccine they set the host up for a more serious infection when exposed at a later date to a similar virus.Nice

Oh shit! That is just great

Hi folks.

Via Xinhua, a report posted just before midnight, April 26: Six more H7N9 bird flu cases reported in China.

Six more cases of H7N9 bird flu were reported on Friday in the Chinese provinces of Fujian, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Zhejiang.
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Is it spreading as fast as other years Wash?

Hi Wash I'm addicted to this thread some good info coming in

This is the first time H7N9 has been in the human population so thats hard to say. They still have not determined how it is spreading.

we do know:
1. it is very deadly.
2. it is spreading (somehow)
3. This is not the typical time of year for am influenza out break.
4. the WHO is taking this very seriously.

I love the new info coming in evreyday. I'm glad the thread caught on.

Updated: Friday, 26 April, 2013 at 04:37 UTC
Description
The H7N9 strain responsible for the bird flu outbreak in China is unlike any that has previously been seen in this type of virus. So far, 110 cases have been reported, including one in Taiwan, and 23 people have died. Here are some things to know about this virus: No evidence of human-to-human transmission to date. So far, authorities said, there is no evidence that this virus can pass from person to person. That doesn't mean it can't happen later. "If limited person-to-person transmission is demonstrated in the future, this really will not be surprising," Keiji Fukuda, the World Health Organization's assistant director-general for health, security and the environment, told a news conference Wednesday in Beijing. The virus appears to be transmitted more easily from poultry to humans than H5N1, Fukuda said, referring to the strain responsible for the outbreak between 2004 and 2007, which claimed 332 lives. "This is definitely one of the most lethal influenza viruses that we have seen so far," he said. The H7N9 strain was never known to infect people until March. Before then, it was only found in birds. If the virus does start to spread easily between people, it could trigger a pandemic. "This is a serious public health situation and it's possible that a pandemic could start if this virus were to change to spread easily between people," the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on its website. "CDC is preparing for that possibility."
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"This is definitely one of the most lethal influenza viruses that we have seen so far," he said. The H7N9 strain was never known to infect people until March. Before then, it was only found in birds. If the virus does start to spread easily between people, it could trigger a pandemic. "This is a serious public health situation and it's possible that a pandemic could start if this virus were to change to spread easily between people,"

This part could potentially make the summer a scary time.
Thanks Luisport.

Very true, they fucking spit everywhere.....disgusting....lived it for many years.....Just recently they have found over 18k dead pigs floating down the Shanghai river....um...then we hear about this flu...

Bet thats not the only thing floating in that river.

The first case of H7N9
influenza in Taiwan
We report here the first case of H7N9
infection outside mainland China.
A 53-year-old male patient was
admitted because of fever for 3 days
after returning from Suchow, Jiangsu
Province, China on April 9, 2013. He
had been otherwise well except for a
history of hypertension and chronic
hepatitis B virus infection. The patient
did not report a history of contact
with sick persons or animals during
the travel. He began to get fever and
general malaise on April 12. He had no
respiratory symptoms, gastrointestinal
symptoms, or myalgias. The patient
sought medical attention on April 16
when fevers continued. Two throatswab specimens tested negative for
H7N9 with real-time PCR on April
17 and April 20, respectively. The
first chest radiograph was normal.
Treatment with oseltamivir was
started at a dose of 75 mg twice daily.
A follow-up chest radiograph on April
18 revealed interstitial pneumonia
at the right lower lung, for which
moxifloxacin was added. Progressive
dyspnoea developed on April 19.
Follow-up chest radiographs showed
progressive bilateral lower-lung
consolidation. He was transferred to
National Taiwan University Hospital
on April 20. The dose of oseltamivir
was increased to 150 mg twice
daily. Endotracheal intubation and
mechanical ventilator support was
given on arrival because of respiratory
failure. Ceftazidime and levofloxacin
were started, although microbiological
investigations were negative. Desaturation worsened despite use of
supplemental O₂ at O₂ fraction of
100%. Inhalational NO was added
on April 21 without benefit. Chest
radiography and sonography did not
reveal pneumothorax. He was put on
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
on April 22. This patient’s sputum
specimen was subtyped as H7N9
with the protocol provided by WHO
Collaborating Centre in Beijing. Very
high H7N9 viral loads (4·5-51·4x107
copies per mL) were found in the
two sputum specimens and one
throat-swab specimen (collected on
April 20 and April 22, respectively)
while the viral load was undetectable
in the blood specimens collected daily
between 20 and 23 April.
H7N9 might spread to other
areas beyond Shanghai, China. Due
to the rapidly progressing lower
respiratory tract infections in infected
individuals,1,2 extensive preventive
efforts are needed to prevent further
spreading of H7N9.
We declare that we have no conflicts of interest.
Sui-Yuan Chang, Pi-Han Lin,
Jen-Chih Tsai, Chien-Ching Hung,
*Shan-Chwen Chang
[email protected]
Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and
Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University
College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan (S-YC, P-HL);
and Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University
Hospital and National Taiwan University College of
Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan (J-CT, C-CH, S-CC)
1 Gao R, Cao B, Hu Y, et al. Human infection with
a novel avian-origin influenza A (H7N9) virus.
N Engl J Med. 2013; published online April 11.
DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa1304459.
2 Guan Y, Farooqui A, Zhu H, Dong W, Wang J,
Kelvin DJ. H7N9 incident, immune status, the
elderly and a warning of an influenza
pandemic. J Infect Dev Ctries 2013; 7: 302–07

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April 26, 2013

BEIJING — As of Thursday 109 people have been confirmed to be dead from the H7N9 virus which emerged rather quickly this April after the typical flu season.

Human-to-human transmission has not yet been documented. However, reports from the World Health Organization state that 40% of the victims did not have contact with any type of poultry raising concern amongst the medical community.

Even more alarming is the fact that the virus has over a 20% mortality rate right out of the gate. If this proves to continue, we could possibly be looking at one of the most deadly viral outbreaks of all time. This is backed up by others such as journalist, Patrick Di Justo, who wrote, “As of today, dividing the number of confirmed cases by the number of deaths makes it look as though H7N9 is an especially bad flu, with a twenty-per-cent mortality rate. If true, this would be terrifying: the 1918 Spanish Flu, which has been called one of the deadliest plagues in human history, also had a mortality rate of around two percent.”

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