People all over the world do not respect the H1N1 flu. They think it is as mild/milder as the normal flu. Some think the H1N1 flu was a hoax. Or it did not live up to the hype. The World Health Organization must defend itself from misinformed heads of state. Some say the WHO managed the worldwide swine flu outbreak poorly. They think the WHO did this to help the drug companies make money. Billions of dollars went for H1N1 flu vaccines.
The WHO is between a rock and a hard spot. They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
Go to http://flustop.blogspot.com. Read some of my blogs to get a different view. The third H1N1 flu wave starting soon will be more severe/deadly than the first two waves. To some experts this is a no brainer.
THE REASON WHY THE EXPERTS DO NOT AGREE ABOUT H1N1 FLU DETAILS IS DUE TO THE FOLLOWING:
1. The worldwide economy is the second worst ever. People in power do not want people worried. People will not spend as much money. This will cause economies not to grow. This means leaders will want other leaders to SUGARCOAT things that scare people. This is one reason confusing facts reaches the masses. Many times a leader will not infer/estimate from known facts. Thus, they may not have to face a problem that may or may not exist. They hope the problem will disappear. We all must infer and guess what the outcome will be whenever we make a decision. There are no guarantees in life. The most successful people make the best decision using the available facts. We must use all the facts proven/unproven.
2. SOME EXPERTS REALLY ARE NOT H1N1 FLU EXPERTS. Some people do not follow closely all the H1N1 flu events. We live in a society that demands everyone to specialize in things to be a true expert. Our society realizes that specialization creates the best results. Some people may be an expert in one thing but not in another. They may answer questions that they have not studied causing confusion. The H1N1 flu pandemic is tricky. Must people must follow it closely and know the history before predicting things. Many people do not know much about its history. Since a pandemic has not appeared for over 40 years, only a few know much about it. The others have spent much of their time with their specialty.
A doctor, who works with flu patients daily, may not be a H1N1 flu expert. The H1N1 flu subject is too big. He might be an expert in part of the subject but not in another.
3. Humans love to cheer up others during tough times. This is natural but when it twists the facts, it is risky. When a person responds to a question, they lean on their experience to answer. If they are not sure, many will try to be positive instead of negative about an outcome. I am a very positive person myself. However, when it comes to something that is life threatening, I go for doing the smart thing.
The same thing occurred in the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak. It started out mild as well. People were not prepared when it struck with revenge in the second wave. Sadly, this may happen again.
The worst part is people are expecting a mild flu. They do not think they need to prepare.
There was a 25% jump in positive samples for the H1N1 flu at the UNC hospital. This is the highest boost since the 2nd wave hit in mid Nov. Also, the CDC shows a rise (from 8.9% to 13%) in positive samples for H1N1 in Region 4. This is in their most recent report. These are signs that a third H1N1 flu wave is right around the corner.
Key signs that could make the H1N1 Flu more deadly are rising. Look at the signs below to decide for yourself where the H1N1 Flu is going!
1. In the last month, severe patients test sent to the National Institute of Virology has increased 100 percent. This test was to confirm H1N1 infection.
2. The infection rate has increased to 25% from 15 to 20% worldwide. This means the strain is improving its survival chances.
3. If you increase the infection rate in the US by five or ten percent, that adds up to thirty million more people catching the virus per wave of activity.
4. Pune is a city in the state of Maharashtra, India. About thirty-six percent of the people in the state live there. However, about 55% of the 300 deaths in the state come from Pune. Clearly, the D225G strain is strong in the area.
5. D225G has a low reactor response to the vaccine. This means the vaccine will probably not work against the new strain.
6. A few days ago, the secretary of state in Romania said the H1N1 Fatality rate has increased from 0.1% to 1.32%. A 1% increase in the death rate worldwide could involve up to thirty-five million people.
Do not let the 1% increase in deaths go over your head! Stop for a moment and think. These are important signs of what could come next.
This kind of thing is starting to pop up in different parts of the world. The D225G is causing the problem.
Mandeep Chadha, deputy director of NIV talked about the 3 out of 3 D225G deaths (100% CFR). “We didn’t see any change in the genetic make-up of the virus after that. Of the three patients, two were from pune and one from Nashik. The mutation was detected in the haemagglutinin (HA) region of the virus’ gene.”
The above facts link the D225G with more severe cases. Also, it means that D225G is getting a higher % share of the H1N1 flu.
In the beginning of the pandemic, all eyes were on the mutation of the germ. At first, the virus did not change much. Now it is changing quickly to survive. Many people are immune to it due to catching it before. Also, the flu vaccine has made lots of people immune. The new mutation could help the germ spread. The virus’s reason for existence is to infect host. It must infect fresh host to survive or die.
Since the H1N1 share many traits with its mother the record-breaking 1918 Spanish flu, it would be smart to prepare.
Natural selection would cause the D225G mutation to show up more and more times.
A child can see this train coming down the tracks.
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The WHO said the H1N1 flu was the fastest moving flu pandemic ever. It took less than 6 weeks to spread as much as others have in 6 months.
Pandemics have existed for centuries since at least the 1500’s and maybe as early as 430 B.C. The fact that H1N1 flu is the fastest spreading germ ever is important. It means that it is highly contagious and it can evolve quickly when pressure to its existence occurs.
A pandemic germ means it spreads worldwide. Years ago due to less people on earth, and slow travel options, it was harder for germs to spread worldwide. Oceans, mountains, and the distance barrier were the biggest hurtle to many germs reaching pandemic status. Many lethal germs stayed local due to the germs “infectious period” not being long enough to reach another host. Flu viruses live/die due to the number of host they infect.
No flu outbreaks are the same. Each one had their own unique traits. However, the H1N1 flu shares a few of the following traits that most flu pandemics have.
1. Up to 50% of the population could catch the germ in the first year. This number could rise to up to 70% after a few years. As of mid November, the CDC said that about 15% of the population in the U.S. had the H1N1 flu during the two waves.
2. All pandemic flu germs change constantly.
3. There were at least six flu pandemics in the last 180 years, all flu pandemics lasted at least 2 years except the 1968 flu. The flu pandemic of 1830 lasted at least 3 years and the 1889 Russian flu lasted for up to 5 years. It had five waves of flu activity.
4. Many flu outbreaks start out MILD and evolve to a much more dangerous phase. The 1918 flu, the worst in history, started out MILD and became the worst killer of all times. It killed from 50 to 100 million people worldwide. The 1830, and 1957 flu also started out very MILD and ended up much more lethal.
The H1N1 flu has a few things that co-exist with it that could make it more lethal.
1. It has the H5N1 bird flu virus that co-inhabits the earth with it. Many experts believe that their mixing of needed traits could be the worst- case scenario creating a disaster.
2. It could mix with the seasonal flu also creating more problems.
3. Or it could just continue evolving like it is possibly creating problems similar to what happened in 1918.
The H1N1 flu mutation that started in the Ukraine about a month ago created a strain. That strain is tailor made to spread all over the world with few problems.
The mutated H1N1 flu germ is trying to adjust to things we are doing to defeat it. The germ sees that we are using antiviral drugs/vaccines to control it. Our use of these tools directly challenges its ability to live/thrive.
The new changes in the germ allow it to connect deeper in the lungs. Once there it spreads rapidly causing excess bleeding and burning out the lungs. The lunges turn black. This could create more deaths.
A virus’s only purpose is to copy itself. When it replicates in large numbers, it satisfies its primal urge. It must have a host in order to replicate and its main goal is to make as many copies of itself as possible. It does this by invading cells and forcing them to make millions of new viruses.
All viruses as a group are highly evolved and very efficient. You could almost call them a perfect infection machine. The flu germ is among the most proficient. When a virus reproduces, its genes make exact copies of themselves. Well, not exact because there are many mistakes that occur. Flu germs mutate quickly. There name as a group is a “quasi species” or a “mutant swarm.” There are trillions of closely related germs made from a mutant swarm. There will be many versions and the swarm as a whole will have almost every variation. Most of the mutations will have a negative effect on the germ. This will destroy the virus or its ability to infect. The bad part is many of the other changes will adapt quickly to its surroundings. Therefore, when you hear that the virus has mutated making certain drugs useless, the mutant swarm is to blame. A drug/vaccine resistant mutation of a flu virus can emerge within days.
Mother Nature is at work trying to stay one-step ahead of our science. I think we will be able to win this war in the next few years.
The mutated strain shows a low reactor to the H1N1 flu vaccine. This means that our current vaccine will probably not work against it. It also shows resistance to our main antiviral drug Tamiflu. The mutated H1N1 flu has spread to different parts of the world. Countries include Norway, China, Italy, the U.S.A. and others. If you expose 100 people each to the mutated form of H1N1 flu and H1N1 flu, the new strain could spread to more people. It could spread more due to the resistance to the vaccine/antiviral drugs. Natural selection would probably pick the mutated strain to dominate.
The BIG QUESTION IS “IS IT AS CONTAGIOUS AS THE NORMAL H1N1.” If it is or if it picks up that trait, watch out because it could spread around the world before we would be able to control it.
It would take months before our vaccine making companies could produce enough vaccines to protect most of us. If Tamiflu where to become completely useless, then Relenza would have to carry the load.
Recently, there were reports of infection rates dropping but deaths from H1N1 rising. This is probably a direct reaction from the H1N1 flu’s evolution.
Do not panic, there are a lot of if’s and maybe’s. If the worst-case scenario happens, most likely a small percentage of people will pass away. The big reason many people died in past flu outbreaks were due to bacterial infections and pneumonia. Our state of the art science will prevent many of those deaths.
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