Is swine flu over? Was all the frenzy just 'a fad'?
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Netherlands reports mutant swine flu (h1n1) death (December 3, 2009) : Dutch authorities said Thursday a patient infected by a mutant strain of the swine flu virus had died. Harald Wychgel, spokesman for the Dutch Institute for Health and the Environment, told AFP that there had been a "minor change in the virus to make it resistant to Tamiflu," a key treatment for influenza. Reports said that two more patients in the Netherlands had shown RESISTANCE TO TAMIFLU.
It is the fifth fatal case of mutated A (H1N1) flu in Europe, after two in France and two in Norway. The World Health Organisation said last month that mutations had been observed in Brazil, China, Japan, Mexico, where the swine flu pandemic began, Ukraine, and the United States, as early as April.
The WHO also underlined that there was no evidence of more infections or more deaths as a result, while the mutated virus detected up to that point remained sensitive to antiviral drugs used to treat severe flu, oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza).
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The latest information from US Federal Health authorities states
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almost 10,000 people had died of swine flu since April, a significant jump from mortality numbers released last month.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/health/11flu.html?hp
Even though flu virulence varies seasonally, Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said that it was a problem that so many people were under the impression swine flu had gone away. He says
"so two-thirds of the population is still not immune. It’s amazing how many people are acting as if this is all wrapped up. The numbers could still go up dramatically.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/health/11flu.html?hp
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies have identified lethal and drug-resistant varieties in countries around the world but none have blown up as a major flair.
What is worrying is the relationship to swine flu and MRSA - swine flu patients are far more likely to pick up antibiotic resistant bacteria and thus get sick with associated illnesses, and MRSA is no picnic! Its better known as 'golden staph'
http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2009/11/spike-in-mrsa-infections-with-swine-flu.html
It's still a big deal, people are still getting sick and swine flu, and its varieties, are not going away
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