(9 of 9) – Swine Flu Special Report
Alex Jones Tv (HD) 9/9:Swine Flu Special Report
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General Business and Workplace Guidance for the Prevention of Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Flu in Workers
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This guidance is to help employers with employees in OSHA’s Lower Risk (Caution) Zone: those employees who have minimal occupational contact with the general public and other coworkers (for example, office employees).
Weekly FluView Map and Surveillance Report for Week Ending May 23, 2009
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Map includes both seasonal flu and H1N1 flu activity. During week 20 (May 17 – 23, 2009), influenza activity decreased in the United States, however there are still higher levels of influenza-like illness than is normal for this time of year.
Health agencies to tweak approach to flu prevention
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(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Public health officials will shift the focus of swine flu prevention efforts to community outbreaks in Taiwan starting June 1. They also call for vigilant efforts of individuals when visiting public places.
The current measures, which are aimed at preventing the Type A (H1N1) flu virus from entering the country, include health checks of all passengers aboard flights from affected countries, before disembarkation.
However, from June 1, the onboard checks will be limited only to flights that report they are carrying suspicious cases of swine flu, according to Director General Steve H.S. Kuo of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
In cases where an airline passenger is found to have the A (H1N1) virus, the quarantine measure will no longer be employed for people on the flight who had close contact with the infected passenger or who sat in the three rows in front and behind him or her, Kuo said.
Instead, they will be given precautionary medication, he added.
Also, the current restrictions on the movements of such travelers will be lifted, he said.
However, starting next Monday, the government units in charge of epidemic prevention and control will send inspectors to the communities that reported A(H1N1) infections to collect samples from residents for screening, he said.
Their main task will be to ensure that the chances of community outbreaks are zero, he said.
Kuo also revealed that the Cabinet-level Department of Health is preparing to lower the domestic epidemic alert level, which is currently at the third stage of yellow, denoting a situation in which imported cases have caused a second wave of infections.
Taiwan’s swine flu alert to be lowered to second level: CECC
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(ChinaPost.com.tw) – The Central Epidemics Command Center (CECC) is expected to lower the swine flu alert to the second level from the third or yellow level today, as the patient involved in the first-ever domestic infection already got out of the hospital after being quarantined for seven days and because no more indigenous swine flu case was confirmed over the past seven days, according to CECC spokesman Shih Wen-yi.
As of yesterday, Shih said, only two people involved in the 10th and 11th infection cases remained quarantined, and all the other nine people confirmed infected with H1N1 flu have all got well and were discharged from the hospital.
The first case of domestic infection was confirmed on May 24. A 40-year-old woman contacted the virus from the fourth confirmed swine flu patient in Taiwan who was a friend of hers.
This prompted the CECC to upgrade the epidemics alert to the third level or yellow level, suggesting that imported cases could pose the threat of a wave of community infections.
Egypt reports 77th bird flu case
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CAIRO, May 30 (KUNA) — The Egyptian Health Ministry confirmed on Saturday the 77th infection case with H5N1 virus.
A female baby, aged one year and two months, contracted the highly pathogenic virus because she got in contact with domestic birds in a village located in Daqahliya, north Cairo, the ministry’s spokesman Dr. Abdulrahman Shahin said in a press briefing.
The baby was hospitalized five days ago, suffering from bird flu-like symptoms including high temperature, running nose, and respiratory disorder.
She was diagnosed as H5N1 positive so she has been treated with the antiviral drug Tamiflu, Dr. Shahin revealed.
The victim is being relocated to Manshiyat Al-Bakri Hospital, Cairo, for further medication, he added.
The case pushed to 77 Egypt’s national tally of the fatal disease with the death toll amounting to 27 since the outbreak of the highly contagious virus in February, 2006.
The National Higher Commission against Bird Flu has adopted a new preventive methodology to control the spread of the H5N1, a subtype of the influenza A virus commonly-known as bird flu which can cause illness in humans. The methodology involves the medical and municipal authorities as well as the mass media. (end) bna.gb KUNA 302220 May 09NNNN
China Reports as Many as 26 Swine Flu Infections on Mainland
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May 31 (Bloomberg) — China has confirmed as many as 26 swine flu infections on the mainland, according to health authorities and the official Xinhua News Agency.
South China’s Guangdong province and southeastern Fujian province each reported a new case today, after two were identified in Beijing and one in Fujian yesterday. That brings the number of individual confirmations to 26, although the government did not give a nationwide total on its Web site.
The female patient in Guangdong, a 23-year-old Chinese- Venezuelan, is a college student. She flew from Venezuela on May 25 to Guangzhou city via Paris. Her relative drove her to Foshan city before she showed symptoms of the illness and went to the hospital on May 29, according to the Guangdong health bureau’s statement.
Singapore, Thailand confirm new swine flu cases
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The Associated Press , Singapore and Bangkok
Sun, 05/31/2009 3:28 PM
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/05/31/singapore-thailand-confirm-new-swine-flu-cases.html
Singaporean and Thai health officials have confirmed their fifth and fourth swine flu cases, respectively.
The Singaporean ministry said in a statement Sunday that a 22-year-old local woman tested positive for the disease Saturday after flying back from New York. It says her symptoms are mild and she is in stable condition.
The statement says Singaporean authorities are trying to locate passengers seated near her on an All Nippon Airlines flight from Tokyo to Singapore. They will be asked to self-quarantine.
It was unclear if Japanese authorities were trying to contact passengers on her flight from New York to Tokyo.
In Bangkok, a Thai health official says a man who returned from a trip to the United States has become the fourth person in Thailand to test positive for swine flu.
D. Paichit Warachit of the Public Health Ministry said Sunday the man received early treatment after his return May 25 and has recovered.
The three other patients have also been successfully treated. Thai authorities have kept all of their identities confidential.
Australian swine flu infections over 300
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The number of Australians diagnosed with swine flu has risen to 303.
Cases have been diagnosed in every state and territory, with the majority 212 in Victoria and 57 in New South Wales.
Schools have been closed in several states, as a way of minimising the impact on communties where people have come down with swine flu.
Health Minister, Nicola Roxon, says work has to continue to reduce the spread of the disease.
She says, “The aim is to make sure that we delay that for as long as possible in order to be able to ensure that when the disease really does attack the broadest number in the community that we are closer to the date of having a vaccine produced.”
She says “That way we can make sure that we can protect those that are most likely to be particularly vulnerable to the harder edge of this disease.”
UK – Swine flu tests on 32 Eton pupils
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A further 32 suspected cases of swine flu among pupils at Eton College have been reported to health officials.
The public school announced on Thursday it would close for a week after a 13-year-old pupil tested positive.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has written to parents warning of a further seven probable and 25 possible cases.
The Berkshire boys’ school, which was attended by Princes William and Harry, was advised to shut for an extra week after half-term until 7 June.
‘Widespread transmission’
The HPA said of the suspected 32 new cases that students were experiencing “mild illness”.
In a letter to parents the agency said: “It is highly likely that these will be positive for Swine Influenza.
“Because it is now clear that there is widespread transmission in the school, the HPA has decided to offer antiviral [medication] for all the students and staff at the school.
“The purpose of this is to minimise the likelihood of further spread of the virus to students and the families not already affected.”
Boys taking public examinations at Eton are being allowed to return to do so under controlled conditions.
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