Post-pandemic A H1N1 has been slightly mutated and kills still in the world. (Not a clean seasonal flu?)
April 24, 2013
CITATE:http://outbreaks.globalincidentmap.com/home.php Australian News
IT’s back, it’s uglier than ever and it has more than four million Australians in its sights.The swine flu, aka H1N1, which killed thousands of people when it swept the world in a pandemic in 2009, is returning in a new, mutated form to Australia, health authorities have warned as flu season begins. And people aged 95 years and older may be safest from infection. “We won’t know how much it has mutated until people begin to get sick, but flu viruses mutate all the time as they pass through people and animals,” said Dr Jeremy McAnulty, NSW Health director of health protection. “Basically the virus makes mistakes in its reproductive cycle that help it survive as part of its evolutionary process and evade our immune systems.
“We won’t know how well the flu vaccines will protect people from new strains of the two flus we expect this year – H1N1 and H3N2 – no flu vaccine is perfect.“But we recommend people get vaccinated.”
The 2009 swine flu outbreak is believed to have started at a Texan a pig farm, spread to pigs in Mexico, subsequently infecting the pigs’ handlers. Dr McAnulty said medical research has established that H1N1 was related to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic that killed up to 100 million people, or three to five per cent of the world’s population.
“There have been four pandemics, or apparently brand new strains of flu in the last hundred years and three in the 20th century, in 1918, the 1950s and the 1960s,” he said.”We’ve discovered that the H1 virus actually had a connection with the 1918 flu, so people who were around then and exposed to it have some resistance to H1.”
“H1 affected more pregnant women and young people.”
Swine flu killed 186 Australians in 2009 and officially affected 37,000. The global death toll of 18,500 was revised last year by Lancet magazine as closer to 250,000.
“The actual numbers are always much larger,” Dr McAnulty said, “Typically 10 to 20 per cent of the population go down with flu every year.”
Swine flu symptoms include a fever, cough, headache, tiredness, with more serious cases developing diarrhoea, pneumonia and encephalitis and lung and heart failure.
Vaccines are free for pregnant women, people over 65-years-old, Aboriginal people and patients with serious underlying medical conditions.
Dr McAnulty’s recommended means of keeping health this winter include washing your hands after contact with others.
“And not just a quick wash of the hands. We recommend singing Happy Birthday as you wash your hands. It’s about the right length of time for the process.”
IT’s back, it’s uglier than ever and it has more than four million Australians in its sights.The swine flu, aka H1N1, which killed thousands of people when it swept the world in a pandemic in 2009, is returning in a new, mutated form to Australia, health authorities have warned as flu season begins. And people aged 95 years and older may be safest from infection. “We won’t know how much it has mutated until people begin to get sick, but flu viruses mutate all the time as they pass through people and animals,” said Dr Jeremy McAnulty, NSW Health director of health protection. “Basically the virus makes mistakes in its reproductive cycle that help it survive as part of its evolutionary process and evade our immune systems.
“We won’t know how well the flu vaccines will protect people from new strains of the two flus we expect this year – H1N1 and H3N2 – no flu vaccine is perfect.“But we recommend people get vaccinated.”
The 2009 swine flu outbreak is believed to have started at a Texan a pig farm, spread to pigs in Mexico, subsequently infecting the pigs’ handlers. Dr McAnulty said medical research has established that H1N1 was related to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic that killed up to 100 million people, or three to five per cent of the world’s population.
“There have been four pandemics, or apparently brand new strains of flu in the last hundred years and three in the 20th century, in 1918, the 1950s and the 1960s,” he said.”We’ve discovered that the H1 virus actually had a connection with the 1918 flu, so people who were around then and exposed to it have some resistance to H1.”
“H1 affected more pregnant women and young people.”
Swine flu killed 186 Australians in 2009 and officially affected 37,000. The global death toll of 18,500 was revised last year by Lancet magazine as closer to 250,000.
“The actual numbers are always much larger,” Dr McAnulty said, “Typically 10 to 20 per cent of the population go down with flu every year.”
Swine flu symptoms include a fever, cough, headache, tiredness, with more serious cases developing diarrhoea, pneumonia and encephalitis and lung and heart failure.
Vaccines are free for pregnant women, people over 65-years-old, Aboriginal people and patients with serious underlying medical conditions.
Dr McAnulty’s recommended means of keeping health this winter include washing your hands after contact with others.
“And not just a quick wash of the hands. We recommend singing Happy Birthday as you wash your hands. It’s about the right length of time for the process.”
Circulating season flu H3N2 is still ” a bad guy”
April 24, 2013
http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/practical-parenting/baby/health/article/-/16801709/australian-doctors-warn-killer-flu-virus-is-on-its-way/
This H3N2 semm to be a serious virus to children in USA and Australia
This H3N2 semm to be a serious virus to children in USA and Australia
Mexico Avian HPAI H7N3 outbreaks
April 24, 2013
WHO two prepandemic influenza viruses in phase 3
April 24, 2013
http://www.internationalsos.com/pandemicpreparedness/SubCatLevel.aspx?li=7&languageID=eng&subCatID=25
This influences to the budget of states
“Bird flu”: avian flu H5N1
Avian flu H5N1 stands at Phase 3 on the WHO Phase scale as of April 2013. It has infected people in small clusters with limited human-to-human transmission. See an image and explanation from WHO about bird flu’s phase.
“Bird flu”: avian flu H7N9
Avian flu H7N9 stands at Phase 2 to 3 on the WHO Phase scale as of April 2013. It has infected people in small numbers with no evidence of human-to-human transmission.
Current WHO phase of pandemic alert
This influences to the budget of states
“Bird flu”: avian flu H5N1
Avian flu H5N1 stands at Phase 3 on the WHO Phase scale as of April 2013. It has infected people in small clusters with limited human-to-human transmission. See an image and explanation from WHO about bird flu’s phase.
“Bird flu”: avian flu H7N9
Avian flu H7N9 stands at Phase 2 to 3 on the WHO Phase scale as of April 2013. It has infected people in small numbers with no evidence of human-to-human transmission.
Current WHO phase of pandemic alert
