Archief - Mexicaanse varkensgriep: tijd om ons zorgen te maken?
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ilgonwe
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Een "voordeel" van de media-aandacht is wel dat mensen bij de eerste symptomen veel vlugger gaan reageren. Met een snelle quarantaine en een adequate behandeling wordt verdere verspreiding voorkomen en de patiënten genezen dus vlug.
De doden in Mexico zijn blijkbaar te wijten aan een te traag optreden omdat het gevaar toen nog niet was herkend.
Niettegenstaande zijn er mensen die al bij een hoest- of niesbui naar de spoed trekken, da's natuurlijk wat overdreven...
De doden in Mexico zijn blijkbaar te wijten aan een te traag optreden omdat het gevaar toen nog niet was herkend.
Niettegenstaande zijn er mensen die al bij een hoest- of niesbui naar de spoed trekken, da's natuurlijk wat overdreven...
SlashDotDash
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Bram Lacor zei:
't Is geen persoonlijke aanval ofzo, maar je zegt gewoon dingen die geen steek houden, én daarnaast blijk je nog eens mijn eerdere reply (ivm het besmettelijk zijn van sommige kankers) te negeren.
Ik heb een master in farmaceutische wetenschappen en ben ondertussen 2 jaar met doctoraatsonderzoek bezig -dat over kanker gaat nota bene. Ik zal er wel iets vanaf weten zeker?
Unkn0wn
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Unkn0wn
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MadisonAv
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MONDAY, MAY 4, 2009
D.C. CURRENT
Sizing Up the Swine Flu
By JIM MCTAGUE
SOME TOP MEDICAL EXPERTS CLAIM THE swine-flu virus has a 50-50 shot at becoming the deadliest bug to hit the planet since 1918-'19, when some 50 million people perished, at least a half-million of them in the U.S.
If the new virus proves as relentless a killer, it would knock our already-enervated economy flat on its back. Stores, hotels, schools, churches and other gathering places would be shuttered, and hospitals would be overwhelmed.
Worries about the flu already are weighing on the stock market. And Vice President Joe Biden didn't help matters by suggesting people avoid flying, eliciting howls of protest from trade groups.
I heard about the 1918-style economic threats from a panel of leading epidemiologists at the Milken Institute Global Conference last week at the Beverly Hills Hilton. The scientists added that, owing to climate change and population growth, viral threats like this one could become routine.
The panel's members were Larry Brilliant, who chairs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Biosurveillance Subcommittee; Scott Layne, a professor of epidemiology at UCLA's School of Public Health; and Seth Berkley, president and chief executive of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York City. They were speaking Tuesday morning, well in advance of news later in the day about the outbreak in New York City.
Brilliant -- who is credited for his work in a World Health Organization smallpox-eradication program in Asia -- underscored the severity of the outlook when he said: "I don't think it is stupid to wear a mask. It is polite in a respiratory epidemic to do so."
Away from the conference, some money managers were taking precautions of their own. New Jersey-based Cumberland Advisors said it took some profits from a recent run-up in emerging-market stocks, and built a cash reserve in its international portfolios.
UCLA's Layne points out that, like the 1918 virus, the swine flu, with a similar genetic lineage, emerged at the tail end of the flu season. As in 1918, there initially has been a blip of fatal cases. But in 1918, mutations of the original strain resulted in a subsequent surge of deaths. All told, the pandemic lasted 18 months and caused more deaths than World War I.
One big advantage we have today: The world's monitoring systems are better, and there have been advances in the speed at which scientists can understand the nature of the virus and produce vaccines. Already, the government has stockpiles of Tamiflu and Relenza, flu-fighting drugs that seem to reduce the severity of the current strain. Still, the government's defensive strategies are something of a patchwork quilt. The U.S. currently relies on more than 300 disease-surveillance systems, which Brilliant says is silly. His biosurveillance panel will soon formally suggest that the federal government create a locus to analyze all disease issues of any consequence and then allot resources intelligently.
President Obama is urging Congress to approve $1.5 billion, as part of a pending war-spending bill, to help with the cost of battling the health threat.
Money to prepare for pandemics was in the first draft of Obama's stimulus bill, which he signed on Feb. 17 -- but the $900 million was cut during the legislative process, said Layne. The public-health infrastructure often is the first place where Congress goes to cut costs, he said. "We have to do better," Layne says. "This is not a drill. This is the real deal."
Source: Barrons.com
D.C. CURRENT
Sizing Up the Swine Flu
By JIM MCTAGUE
SOME TOP MEDICAL EXPERTS CLAIM THE swine-flu virus has a 50-50 shot at becoming the deadliest bug to hit the planet since 1918-'19, when some 50 million people perished, at least a half-million of them in the U.S.
If the new virus proves as relentless a killer, it would knock our already-enervated economy flat on its back. Stores, hotels, schools, churches and other gathering places would be shuttered, and hospitals would be overwhelmed.
Worries about the flu already are weighing on the stock market. And Vice President Joe Biden didn't help matters by suggesting people avoid flying, eliciting howls of protest from trade groups.
I heard about the 1918-style economic threats from a panel of leading epidemiologists at the Milken Institute Global Conference last week at the Beverly Hills Hilton. The scientists added that, owing to climate change and population growth, viral threats like this one could become routine.
The panel's members were Larry Brilliant, who chairs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Biosurveillance Subcommittee; Scott Layne, a professor of epidemiology at UCLA's School of Public Health; and Seth Berkley, president and chief executive of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York City. They were speaking Tuesday morning, well in advance of news later in the day about the outbreak in New York City.
Brilliant -- who is credited for his work in a World Health Organization smallpox-eradication program in Asia -- underscored the severity of the outlook when he said: "I don't think it is stupid to wear a mask. It is polite in a respiratory epidemic to do so."
Away from the conference, some money managers were taking precautions of their own. New Jersey-based Cumberland Advisors said it took some profits from a recent run-up in emerging-market stocks, and built a cash reserve in its international portfolios.
UCLA's Layne points out that, like the 1918 virus, the swine flu, with a similar genetic lineage, emerged at the tail end of the flu season. As in 1918, there initially has been a blip of fatal cases. But in 1918, mutations of the original strain resulted in a subsequent surge of deaths. All told, the pandemic lasted 18 months and caused more deaths than World War I.
One big advantage we have today: The world's monitoring systems are better, and there have been advances in the speed at which scientists can understand the nature of the virus and produce vaccines. Already, the government has stockpiles of Tamiflu and Relenza, flu-fighting drugs that seem to reduce the severity of the current strain. Still, the government's defensive strategies are something of a patchwork quilt. The U.S. currently relies on more than 300 disease-surveillance systems, which Brilliant says is silly. His biosurveillance panel will soon formally suggest that the federal government create a locus to analyze all disease issues of any consequence and then allot resources intelligently.
President Obama is urging Congress to approve $1.5 billion, as part of a pending war-spending bill, to help with the cost of battling the health threat.
Money to prepare for pandemics was in the first draft of Obama's stimulus bill, which he signed on Feb. 17 -- but the $900 million was cut during the legislative process, said Layne. The public-health infrastructure often is the first place where Congress goes to cut costs, he said. "We have to do better," Layne says. "This is not a drill. This is the real deal."
Source: Barrons.com
moloko
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Djack
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HLN Mexicaanse griep - Eerste geval van Mexicaanse griep in België (853127)
Be scared!
edit:
deredactie.be: Eerste geval van Mexicaanse griep in België
Het zou om een persoon gaan van Gent. Dus de studenten hier, opgepast!
Be scared!
edit:
deredactie.be: Eerste geval van Mexicaanse griep in België
Het zou om een persoon gaan van Gent. Dus de studenten hier, opgepast!
Bluto
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Djack zei:HLN Mexicaanse griep - Eerste geval van Mexicaanse griep in België (853127)
Be scared!
edit:
deredactie.be: Eerste geval van Mexicaanse griep in België
Het zou om een persoon gaan van Gent. Dus de studenten hier, opgepast!
Te laat! De griep is al uit het nieuws verdwenen.
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