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Ask The Doc: How Exactly Can Flu Kill A Healthy Person? Models Projections for Flu Miss Mark by Wide Margin (Thanks to Steve G. for the link.) Egypt Quarantines 234 In University Dorm Over Swine Flu China Has 8 More Cases Second Person Dies From Swine Flu In Chile Swine Flu in Australia’s Defense Forces Second Washington Victim Dies of Swine Flu Latest Swine Flu Stats










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WHO: Swine Flu Alert Closer to Pandemic 64 countries, 18,965 cases, 117 deaths (mostly US & Mexico) “‘We still are waiting for evidence of really widespread community activity in these countries, and so it’s fair to say that they are in transition and are not quite there yet, which is why we are not in phase 6 yet,’ Fukuda said.” NYC Reports Two New Deaths From Swine Flu Both aged 25-64, 553 total cases, 341 hospitalizations Swine Flu In All 50 States More than 10,000 US residents confirmed infected. Confirmed cases represent about 1 in 20 of actual cases. (JWR …




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Swine Flu Pandemic Likely to Hit UK tn Early Autumn Before Vaccine Ready John Oxford, Prof. of Virology at St. Bartholomew’s said “the number of cases in Britain unrelated to travel suggested the H1N1 virus was “silently spreading around. When children go back to school in September the virus has an opportunity, and normally it takes it. That’s the scenario we should prepare for and that’s what we are preparing for.” Swine Summer Spread Raises Pandemic Concerns WHO official says world edging towards pandemic










Letter Re: A Ship’s Belated Flu Quarantine as an Object Lesson

Hi Jim, Here is a bit about the progress of Swine Flu in Australia with this article about a quarantined luxury cruise ship. We now have a cruise ship, the P & O Pacific Dawn, being quarantined at Willis Island on the Great Barrier Reef – with 2000 people on board. Yesterday the ship was photographed flying the yellow quarantine flag! Our “brilliant” state health departments let 20 infected people disembark at Sydney and they [then] flew throughout Australia . [Some background:] 13 of these people turned up at the Robina Hospital at the Gold Coast and the staff at …




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Hazardous WHO Phase Daze “The constant rewriting of the phase system to avoid calling a phase 6 pandemic a phase 6 pandemic does significant harm in the monitoring of the pandemic, as well as raising public awareness of the seriousness of the evolution and spread of swine H1N1.” NYC Confirms Two More Deaths 56 Cases Confirmed In New Jersey













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Kudos to KAF for sending this piece: Researchers: Swine Flu Genes Swirled for Decades Undetected Emergency Preparedness Exercises Held at Banks Swine Flu Spreads in Australia Some Older People May Be Immune to Swine Flu Swine Flu Extends to Tokyo; 11,000 Cases Worldwide 56 Hospitalized with Swine Flu in NYC Dr. Niman’s World Flu Tracking Map