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  1. Strange Stories Coming Out of Brazil

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    brazil: "at least" 488 deaths

  2. Immunity to H1N1?

    indigo girl replied to nminodob's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Good point. It has been said that those born prior to 1956 might have some immunity. This may have some basis in fact, but as I read info from many countries recently, I am seeing more older folks...

  3. ECMO - Will We Have Sufficient Capacity for the Fall/Winter Flu Season?

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Some think that because we are nurses, we should, and would take risks that no other profession (including doctors) would take. It's OK to give us only the surgical masks based on no data, just the...

  4. ECMO - Will We Have Sufficient Capacity for the Fall/Winter Flu Season?

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This one's for you, janfrn. Now, don't you feel better about those poor physicians getting megabucks per hour? They are in the frontlines, according this guy. They are self employed after all, and...

  5. ECMO - Will We Have Sufficient Capacity for the Fall/Winter Flu Season?

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=a9vKlznnyeQ4 (hat tip

  6. The Swine Flu Paradox

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    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=a9vKlznnyeQ4 (hat tip

  7. ECMO - Will We Have Sufficient Capacity for the Fall/Winter Flu Season?

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I am very sorry about that, janfrn. I probably missed her credentials being announced. It was a sensory overloading experience to listen to two days of testimony and opinions. I got it into my head...

  8. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Pretoria, South Africa http://www.news24.com/Content/World/SwineFlu/1255/6658d7b9dcc2429bad7d11deac9c10d3/20-08-2009%2009-22/Gauteng_records_first_H1N1_death This is yet another very difficult story...

  9. More Vaccine News

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Influenza virus-like particle vaccine

  10. ECMO - Will We Have Sufficient Capacity for the Fall/Winter Flu Season?

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/Alberta+doctors+treat+H1N1+patients+paid/1910150/story.html Let me get this straight. They are going to pay the doctors this outrageous sum to see, probably...

  11. NY Requiring Flu Shots of All HCW

    indigo girl posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/health/policy/19swine.html?_r=4&partner=TOPIXNEWS&ei=5099 I have not seen anyone post this yet, but I many of you must know about it. Yes, New York state has...

  12. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts http://www.mvtimes.com/marthas-vineyard/news/2009/08/20/h1n1-death.php (hat tip

  13. Strange Stories Coming Out of Brazil

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What's Going on in Brazil? http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/19/content_11909815.htm While this article is about H1N1 in Latin America, what caught my eye is the percentage of people in Brazil...

  14. NYC Funeral Directors Prepare for 2d Wave

    indigo girl posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://yournabe.com/articles/2009/08/17/queens/queensxtfwnic08122009.txt I guess it is practical for them to prepare, macabre as it may seem to us. Of great interest is the figures supposedly from the...

  15. Australia - Vax Could Begin in Weeks

    indigo girl posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2009/08/australia-vax-could-begin-in-weeks.html it will be instuctive to see how well they manage to do this with their priority groups. and, of course all will be...

  16. 'Original Antigenic Sin': A threat to H1N1 vaccine effectiveness?

    indigo girl posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    I know. I know. It gives all of us a headache to learn of yet another immune system phenomenom that may affect whether or not the new vaccines will work... Who knew it was all going to be so...

  17. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Dunnedin, New Zealand http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2009/08/18/1245c2150e08 Sounds like their first wave is ending in New Zealand. These seemingly random deaths of otherwise healthy people are...

  18. ECMO - Will We Have Sufficient Capacity for the Fall/Winter Flu Season?

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.andalusiastarnews.com/news/2009/aug/17/opp-boy-sick-h1n1-flu/ This child from a small town in Alabama was treated in 3 different states. He was transported first to a Pensacola, Florida...

  19. Monoclonal Antibody Research

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I thought it sounded too good to be true. But, it really would be of tremendous advantage to have something else to use for flu victims besides the neuraminadase inhibitors. We have put all of our...

  20. Monoclonal Antibody Research

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    http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/crucell-receives-nih-award-for-the-development-of-influenza-monoclonal-antibodies,929133.shtml# A different approach to treatment and prophylaxsis for influenza...

  21. If Canada is worried then we should be worried in USA.

    indigo girl replied to oramar's topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/160981.php Good article, oramar. If Hebert is correct, and I think that he is, we are in for a wild ride very soon. Our healthcare facilities and the public...

  22. Would You Accept Swine Flu Vaccine?

    indigo girl replied to pagandeva2000's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Sounds like it. The way things are going though, we will be naturally immunized by the time they get the vax out, and save them the

  23. Would You Accept Swine Flu Vaccine?

    indigo girl replied to pagandeva2000's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I respect the choices of everyone about this new vaccine. I don't much like mandating anything that you have to put in your body either. For that reason alone, many will refuse. We are a stubborn...

  24. Drug-Resistant Flu Strain Turns Up In Denmark but Doesn't Last Long

    indigo girl replied to Lovely_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    WHO Failure to See Spread of Tamiflu Resistant Pandemic H1N1

  25. More Vaccine News

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    US Cuts Doses of Flu Vaccine http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2009/08/brother-can-you-spare-shot.html So there won't be much available for the high risk groups, and not a surprise that they will have to...