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 Topic: N.H. Warns Dozens at Risk of MeningitisPosted: January 07 2007 at 5:30pm |
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January 05,2007 | CONCORD, N.H. -- More than 80 people in three states may be at risk for meningitis after coming into contact with a University of New Hampshire student who died of the illness this week, health officials said. The warning came amid another meningitis scare that shut down schools Thursday and Friday in three towns in Rhode Island.
The college student, 21-year-old Danielle Thompson, had been in her home state of Maine, as well as in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, in the 10 days before she was admitted to a Dover hospital. She died of bacterial meningitis on Wednesday. Health and Human Services Commissioner John Stephen said the state has identified 29 people in New Hampshire and 55 in Maine who should receive antibiotics. Officials were still tracking down how many people Thompson visited in Massachusetts. No one has yet shown symptoms, Stephen said. Bacterial meningitis can be spread through saliva, creating the most risk for people who shared food or drinks, kissed or used the same eating utensils. It causes an infection of fluid in the spinal cord and surrounding the brain, with symptoms include high fever, headache and stiff neck. "This case underscores just how serious this illness can be," Stephen said In Rhode Island, epidemiologists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working with state officials investigating a possible case of meningitis and three cases of encephalitis that surfaced in public school children. One second-grader in Warwick died from encephalitis that was brought on by "walking pneumonia." Dr. David Gifford, director of Rhode Island's Public Health Department, said there have been an unusually high number of walking pneumonia cases in the children's communities. As a precaution, classes for about 20,000 students in those communities -- Warwick, West Warwick and Coventry -- were cancelled Thursday and Friday while health experts investigate, Gifford said. |
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Posted: January 08 2007 at 5:10pm |
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Health and Human Services Commissioner John Stephen said the state has identified 29 people in New Hampshire and 55 in Maine who should receive antibiotics. Officials were still tracking down how many people Thompson visited in Massachusetts. This was from CNN. Well what does this say about the students in 2 schools in RI. They have been exposed to a classmate with encephalitis and another with meningitis. These students have not been offered antibiotics ~~
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Posted: January 08 2007 at 5:10pm |
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Posted: January 08 2007 at 6:00pm |
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Did anyone know about this case of swine flu USA ?
An eastern Iowan has tested positive for a swine flu, a disease which
rarely jumps from pigs to humans, but state health officials said there is no cause for alarm.
INFLUENZA, SWINE, HUMAN - USA (IOWA): NOVEMBER 2006 *************************************** A ProMED-mail post <http://www.promedmail.org> ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases <http://www.isid.org> Date: Mon 8 Jan 2007 From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org> Source: Sioux City Journal Online [edited] <http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2007/01/07/news/iowa/b56fa050f700ef888625725c0014fe12.txt> Iowan gets swine flu --------------------- An eastern Iowan has tested positive for a swine flu, a disease which rarely jumps from pigs to humans, but state health officials said there is no cause for alarm. Dr. Patricia Quinlisk, the state's epidemiologist, said the case was detected when the patient gave a routine throat swab after coming down with flu symptoms. The sample was sent for lab tests, which confirmed the swine flu diagnosis. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the results of the test taken in November 2006. Quinlisk said the patient was not hospitalized and has since recovered. She said there was no evidence the virus has spread person to person. It was unknown how the Iowan contracted the virus. "It's hard to catch," Quinlisk said. "(Humans) are pretty resistant to it." Quinlisk said she could not recall the last time an Iowan had tested positive for swine flu. She's been the state's leading communicable disease monitor for 12 years. The CDC has blood tests pending on people in contact with the Iowan to determine exposure. People exposed to the virus may not develop symptoms. As with the flu in humans, pigs with swine flu develop runny noses and fevers. Pigs can transmit viruses to their human handlers, as they did in Cedar Rapids during the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic. Historians note the 1918 Cedar Rapids Swine Show brought together sick and healthy pigs. When the show ended, newly infected pigs were returned to farms throughout the Midwest, contributing to the spread of the deadly virus. -- ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org> [The absence of secondary cases since November 2006 indicates that the risk of transmission of this swine influenza virus from pigs to humans is remote, and clearly the virus is not adapted to person-to-person transmission in the human population. Influenza A virus infection (H1N1 or H3N2) is common in swine in the USA (although less frequent elsewhere), and infection of abattoir workers causing mild respiratory disease is not uncommon. Constant surveillance of such events is necessary, however, for early detection of a virus with pandemic potential. In 1976, an outbreak of swine influenza virus among military recruits at Fort Dix in the USA proved to be self-limiting and initiated an expensive and ultimately unnecessary human immunization program. - Mod.CP] .............................mpp/cp/msp/mpp http://www.promedmail.org/pls/promed/f?p=2400:1000 *##########################################################* |
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Posted: January 08 2007 at 6:09pm |
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Hi Candles...
Am going to read that whole post.
Am watching North Carolina.
According to FluWatch it is epidemic level there now.
It is the only location on the map at epidemic level.
Opening Remarks Prepared for Delivery That Great Pandemic also touched North Carolina. The pandemic appeared in late September of 1918. On September 27th, 400 cases were reported in Wilmington. Additional cases were reported here in Raleigh. It then spread like wildfire across the rest of the state. By October 4th, influenza was striking people in 24 counties, and epidemic in Raleigh and Wilmington. It burned through Fayetteville not long afterward. Authorities did what they could to contain its spread. On October 5th, the State Board of Health called on the authorities of communities where the pandemic appeared to "promptly . . . close the school and all public meetings." However, Dr. W.S. Rankin of the State Board of Health refused to approve the use of rum in emergency hospitals due to lack of evidence that it was effective against influenza. Instead the Board called for treatments of "sunshine and open air." Calomel, a purgative (and insecticide), was also prescribed. Residents suffered terribly when the pandemic struck. For instance, Selena W. Saunders, who accompanied a nurse in the textile town of Cramerton (located a few miles west of Charlotte) recalled: "This new disease . . . struck suddenly, spent itself quickly in a burning three-day fever, often leaving its victim dead. The people lost faith in the remedies they had relied on all their lives, and they became frantic. Some of them locked themselves in their house, and refused to open the door for anyone.... Merchants nailed bars across their doors, and served the customers one-at-a-time at the doorway. We found whole families stricken, with none able to help the others. In one family the mother died without knowing that her son, who lay in the adjoining room, had died a few hours earlier." In the city of Goldsboro, a resident named Dan Tonkel remembered: "I felt like I was walking on eggshells. I was afraid to go out, to play with my playmates, my classmates, my neighbors. I was almost afraid to breathe. I remember I was actually afraid to breathe. People were afraid to talk to each other. It was like-‘don't breathe in my face, don't even look at me, because you might give me germs that will kill me.' " Tonkel added: "Farmers stopped farming; merchants stopped selling. The country more or less just shut down. Everyone was holding their breath, waiting for something to happen. So many people were dying; we could hardly count them. We never knew from one day to another who was going to be next on the death list." By the time the pandemic passed, at least 13,000 North Carolinians had perished. One of the victims was Ernest Carroll, who may have been infected while he was serving soup to those afflicted with influenza at the Tabernacle Baptist Church here in Raleigh. After he passed, Temple Baptist named its kitchen and dining hall after him. When it comes to pandemics, there is no rational basis to believe that the early years of the 21st century will be different than the past. If a pandemic strikes, it will come to North Carolina. |
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Posted: January 08 2007 at 8:32pm |
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Info SWINE FLU.....
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from wikipedia..
Major diseases caused by the Flaviviridae family include: St. Louis Encephalitis is a disease caused by the mosquito borne St. Louis Encephalitis virus. St. Louis encephalitis virus is related to Japanese encephalitis virus. This disease mainly affects the United States. Occasional cases have been reported from Canada and Mexico. Mosquitoes, from the genus Culex, become infected by feeding on birds infected with the St. Louis encephalitis virus.
Infected mosquitoes then transmit the St. Louis encephalitis virus to humans and animals during the feeding process. The St. Louis encephalitis virus grows both in the infected mosquito and the infected bird, but does not make either one sick....
...When infection is more severe the person may experience headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, occasional convulsions and spastic paralysis.
Fatality ranges from 3-30%,
aged people are more likely to have a fatal infection. ..........................................................................................
The Family.... For the ol Swine Fever..... Flaviviridae
from...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaviviridae
The Flaviviridae are a family of viruses that are primarily spread through arthropod vectors (mainly ticks and mosquitoes). They include the following genera:
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Posted: January 08 2007 at 8:52pm |
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It's so bad...that the Denue Bulletin is now World Wide.
pg 46 of 249...see Discussion
scroll down from there to read all about the Dengue infection...fever and IV interesting.
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Posted: January 08 2007 at 9:02pm |
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Excerpts...
Today, we see a global resurgence of infectious diseases, including the identification of new infectious agents, the re emergence of old infectious agents, such as tuberculosis (TB) and the rapid spread of antimicrobial resistance.
Between 1980 and 1992, the death rate in the United States from infectious diseases, excluding HIV/AIDS, rose by 22 percent.
Worldwide, infectious and parasitic diseases remain the leading cause of death. These deaths disproportionately affect the developing countries of the world, with the most vulnerable segment of the population being children under the age of five years....
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In the Sub-Saharan countries of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria, seasonal outbreaks of meningitis occur every 2 to 4 years, causing high morbidity and mortality in older children and young adults. In 1996, there were about 154,000 cases of meningitis and 20,000 deaths in the largest meningitis epidemic yet recorded.
To prevent a predicted recurrence in 1997, the EID Task Force encouraged WHO and other partners to help prepare local public health workers for the next meningitis season. The CDC-based WHO Collaborating Center for Control of Epidemic Meningitis provided the technical lead.
The project involved five U.S. government agencies (CDC, FDA, NIH, USAID, DOD); several non-governmental organizations (Medecins Sans Frontieres, CARE, Epicentre, and the Fondation Merieux); three WHO offices; and three vaccine manufacturers. In addition, two other WHO Collaborating Laboratories -- in Oslo and Marseilles – supplied diagnostic reagents and provided training in laboratory diagnostics in the affected countries. Major funds were provided to WHO by the British Overseas Development Agency and the Government of Japan.
The meningitis project was initiated in summer 1996. ................................................................................................
See timeline here...
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Posted: January 08 2007 at 9:47pm |
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...Did anyone know about this case of swine flu USA ?
An eastern Iowan has tested positive for a swine flu, a disease which
rarely jumps from pigs to humans, but state health officials said there is no cause for alarm. (Candles)
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From Wikipedia...
Genus Pestivirus (type species Bovine virus diarrhea, others include classical swine fever or hog cholera
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Italy...1993
"...These findings indicated the occurrence of a pestivirus in man and might suggest a relationship with a pestivirus of animal origin...."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8219813&dopt=Abstract Serological and antigenical findings indicating pestivirus in man.
Giangaspero M, Vacirca G, Buettner M, Wolf G, Vanopdenbosch E, Muyldermans G. Institute of Special Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milan, Italy. |
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Posted: January 09 2007 at 1:57am |
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Posted in death animals yesterday , not swine flu , but condition has vets on the go .................... heres part of , full read follow link .
The PCVAD name was suggested by the American Association of Swine
Veterinarians (AASV) after the discovery of Porcine Circovirus type 2 (PCV2). PCVAD can be used to describe all of the diseases attributed to porcine circovirus, including PMWS. The PCV2 disease was discovered when swine practitioners began reporting an increased number of PMWS cases in finisher pigs. Through research trials and field cases, scientists discovered that the PCV2 disease was contributing to the increased presentation of PMWS in these swine herds. Unlike diseases such as West Nile Virus, PCVAD is species specific, meaning it doesn't spread to other species, but other types of circoviruses have been found in birds, Tokach said. It's predicted that every swine herd in the United States is "infected" with PCVAD, however, not all herds are "affected," she said. "Infected" means that porcine circovirus type 2 is present in the herd, but clinical signs may not be present, whereas, "affected" means that the herd is displaying symptoms associated with the virus.  Environmental conditions and the presence of other pathogens or diseases may be contributing factors, explaining the difference between "infected" herds and "affected" herds. However, it is not yet clear what drives the disease.
PORCINE CIRCOVIRUS ASSOCIATED DISEASES - USA (KANSAS) *********************************************** A ProMED-mail post http://www.promedmail.org/pls/promed/f?p=2400:1000 |
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Posted: January 09 2007 at 7:29pm |
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Should we all just say no to all of this diseased food? And the human suffering associated with producing and consuming diseased food?
I guess I'm dreaming?
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Chicken and Swine first?
they know more about Vaccine for chickens than
for Humans.
Beef has been put first.....
Japan was the top importer of U.S. beef, buying 240,000 tonnes valued at $1.4 billion in 2003. After the discovery of the first case of BSE in the U.S. on December 23, 2003, Japan stopped U.S. beef imports in December 2003. In December 2005, Japan once again allowed imports of U.S. beef, but reinstated its ban in mid-January 2006 after a technical violation of the U.S.-Japan beef import agreement: a vertebral column, which should have been removed prior to shipment, was included in a shipment of veal.
Tokyo yielded to U.S. pressure to resume imports, ignoring consumer worries about the safety of U.S. beef, said Japanese consumer groups. Michiko Kamiyama from Food Safety Citizen Watch said about this: "The government has put priority on the political schedule between the two countries,
not on food safety or human health." |
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Posted: January 10 2007 at 8:30am |
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Research Project: Investigating the Pathogenicity of Pestiviruses Or Pesti-Like Viruses Isolated from Recent Swine Epidemics
Location: Virus and Prion Diseases of Livestock Project Number: 3625-32000-074-02
Start Date: May 01, 2005 |
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Posted: January 10 2007 at 8:38am |
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From Candles...
Unlike diseases such as West Nile Virus, PCVAD is species specific,
meaning it doesn't spread to other species, but other types of circoviruses have been found in birds, Tokach said. It's predicted that every swine herd in the United States is "infected" with PCVAD, however, not all herds are "affected," she said. "Infected" means that porcine circovirus type 2 is present in the herd, but clinical signs may not be present, whereas, "affected" means that the herd is displaying symptoms associated with the virus. Environmental conditions and the presence of other pathogens or diseases may be contributing factors, explaining the difference between "infected" herds and "affected" herds. However, it is not yet clear what drives the disease. ..................................................................................................
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Start Date: Aug 20, 2004
End Date: Jan 31, 2007 Objective: Study swine influenza virus (SIV) virulence mechanisms utilizing a reverse genetics approach. Develop and validate rapid diagnostic assays for the detection of (SIV) and evaluate an adenovirus-vectored SIV vaccine in young pigs.
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Posted: January 10 2007 at 8:40am |
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very interesting reads...
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