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  1. update on the gal from Scotland. A true miracle of modern, high-tech, medicine: UK: Swine flu woman gives birth to boy (UKPA) - 14 minutes ago http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hTIesyCDfG1hq3QcI94gZ1S4bgqg A pregnant woman f...
  2. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    The 1918 flu certainly was H1N1, Dr. Webster and others have reconstructed the virus. Yup, swine flun is less deadly. But............ It is less deadly with early treatment with Tami, vents, and there was that gut who they treated with ECMO. When ...
  3. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    Goju, you beat me to it.:yelclap: Please, all you concerned nurses go to HHS site and voice concerns or questions.
  4. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    Anything around 1918 or greater will shut down many of our hospitals in a few weeks. It`s not just PPEs, and understaffed,overworked HCW, either. Where are the needed supplies going to come from? Little things like IVF, Lab Reagents, O2, food, line...
  5. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    I came across this document and am not sure if it has been posted here already.. Some of the recommendations I don't *think* I have seen before... was from fall 2006 I believe. U of Pittsburg Medical Center -- Center for Biosecurity http://www.upmc-...
  6. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    Glad to see that were sent to NAMRU3. That means that we`ll get the sequences fairly rapidly. Will be interesting to see of they resemble Egypts or Indos.
  7. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    CRNI Our CDC is in shambles due to poor management. They are actually pretty worthless when it comes to PF info.Read their own blog( oops,sorry my bad). Our Naval labs are doing heroic work on diagnosing AI. One is in Egypt, another is in Indo. Soun...
  8. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    Indigo, I`d save my breathe for the more important goal of trying to alert our nursing breathern about the probability of a PanFlu Year. Some folks won`t believe it can happen until they see the bodies in the streets.
  9. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    CRNI-ICU20 I for one am very glad that all these flu bloggers exist. I have tried toggletext, it`s tough. have you tried it? It`s a program that allows one to translate from Indonesian to english or Arabic/english. The very ,very dedicated bloggers ...
  10. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    Swine apparently did not have flu until after 1918. So, it seems that us humans gave it to them. As far as appropriate PPEs, remember Totonto during the SARS outbreak> A friend actually worked there. When they ran out of N95 masks, TPTB convinced...
  11. Disaster/Pandemic Community Involvement and Coping

    How many of your friends and neighbors even have 2 weeks of food and water stered? Not many,I bet.And do you have supplies for your family? At the gov. site for panflu, they reccommend having at least a 2 week store of food and WATER for every famil...
  12. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    Nigeria is now testing 11 more people for HN51. They report that these folks have had contact with those ones that died. Scary ! Have any of you thought about where that IV bag you just hung was made? Probably not here in the USA. And, when our Jus...
  13. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    Why should nurses and all HCW be concerned about Panflu ? 60% of those people whi have contracted it have died despite recieving ICU care. We have nowhere near enough ICU beds or even MS beds to deal with what would be needed in an outbreak. IMO,w...
  14. 6 Alabama kids were on life support with flu

    I find this kinda interesting; Authorities aren't releasing the boy's name. The health department has advised those who came in contact with the boy to see their doctors. Now we know where that wacky psychic went to. How can the contacts report if ...
  15. Overcoming for Mario

    AMEN !!!!!!! Thank you, Joanne...i am so glad that some of us are more able to clearly state thoughts....