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  1. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    School closure in Texas
  2. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    Do we need to take a collective breath? http://pandemicchronicle.com/2009/04/collective_breath/ SophiaZoe does not blog often but when she does, her commentary is always valuable and well thought out....
  3. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    I just want to add that there no way to know if those comments sent to the BBC are for real, but if they are, it is very, very sad
  4. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    Readers in Mexico have been emailing the BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/8018428.stm These accounts are startling. The first one is from a resident physician in Mexico
  5. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    Flu Patients In New York Had Been In Mexico - Report...
  6. WHO sets emergency meeting on swine flu outbreak http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKTRE53O1AD20090425 Sounds like they are waffling about raising that threat level, and waiting to see if the...
  7. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    Japan Begins to Screen Incoming Passengers from Mexico http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=221703&postcount=1 Here is a translation provided by flutrackers. Japan is using thermal...
  8. No, it is completely different. There is no vaccine yet though the CDC has begun preparing a seed strain for this novel virus for the vaccine manufacturers to work with if it is
  9. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    Comparisons between 1976, 2009 swine flu not appropriate http://www.scottmcpherson.net/journal/2009/4/24/comparisons-between-1976-2009-swine-flu-not-appropriate.html Another voice heard from in the...
  10. The Infection Control nurse? That figures. I think that it is important to stay up to date. Be calm, and rational, and think through what you are hearing and seeing in the media. As for the cases in...
  11. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    Swine flu: bits and pieces at the end of the day http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2009/04/swine_flu_bits_and_pieces_at_t.php The Reveres think that the WHO will raise their pandemic threat level....
  12. Hey gr8hart! Long time no see! Oramar started her thread over here: https://allnurses.com/nursing-news/mild-form-swine-386847.html And I have been covering all kinds of influenza, and this virus in...
  13. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    60 Mexico flu deaths raise global epidemic fears
  14. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    It's Official - It's Swine Flu in Mexico as Well The CDC Media Conference call just ended. It was a somber call. Few questions if any from anyone in the room. Most were via reporters on the telephone....
  15. It's Official - It's Swine Flu in Mexico as Well The CDC Media Conference Call just ended. It was a somber call. Few questions if any from anyone in the room. Most were via reporters on the telephone....
  16. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    H1N1 in Mexico http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=221156&postcount=19 No one thought it was bird flu, of course, but the question was which flu was it? So now we know it is an H1N1....
  17. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    Egypt: Another human flu death http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2009/04/another-human-flu-death.html Her name was Wafaa Abdel Hamid. Vietnam: Woman dies of H5N1 I am sorry that we do not even know...
  18. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    Better to have it than not have it when you consider the situation with the antivirals available. Swine flu is resistant to amantadine and rimantadine but sensitive to Tamiflu which is locked up in...
  19. Deadly outbreak of swine flu in US, Mexico http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hqvUky7Db4m9TlO-2L8Z4q2vDJbw If you have not had a flu shot this year, you might want to think about it....
  20. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    Mexico shuts schools around capital in flu scare http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE53N11B20090424 Mexico is initiating mitigation strategies at least in Mexico City, in an attempt to limit...
  21. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    The Reveres on The evolving Swine Flu story http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2009/04/the_evolving_swine_flu_story.php The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and...
  22. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/30376054#30376054 Here you go, oramar. The US media is now talking about the swine flu cases here as well as what is happening in Mexico. They were way behind...
  23. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    Mexico - Officially, it's an Epidemic http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2009/04/mexico-flu-is-officially-an-epidemic.html Too bad my Spanish is so rusty, but crofsblogs has translated this....
  24. The CDC sounds pretty calm about it, but you never know. We do not have enough information right now to know what is going on, and have to assume that our public health system is on the ball about...
  25. Good point, as it is a different strain though it is still H1N1. They will still say that there is some protection, and hopefully there is. They are vaccinating HCW frantically in Mexico with our...