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Is the swine flu itself killing healthy young adults or is it Cytokine storm
Cytokines are the chemical that signal your immune cells to jump to attention. They are present when you are sick. Usually, they are how a healthy immune system signals that it's time to battle the illness, for example, swine flu. However, during both the swine flu and the 1918 Spanish flu, young, healthy people died as they fell victim to a cytokine storm. A cytokine storm is our own bodies' over-response to an illness. Is this the reason so many young adults in Mexico are dying?
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The Swine Flu how worried should we be
How many deaths have actually been reported and where? I know here in the US there has been one, but then it was also a little Mexican toddler who just came to the US, who was likely sick before entering here. How worried should we be, will it be something easily treated if treated in time, or will it still take a lot of victims no matter when treatment started, and no matter how good of care is given? Will it be similar to the Spanish (Lady) Flu of 1918 where it took the lives of 50-100 million people around the world?
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Why is it called Swine Flu when its a Genetic Hybrid Strain of HumanSwineBird Flues combined
and BTW, why hasn't the (Infected Swine Herd) and the First Victim been searched for, as is NORMAL protocol in cases like this? AND, what took the Mexican Department of Health so long to IDENTIFY and REPORT the out-break to the W.H.O.? AND, why weren't measures taken to better CONTAIN this virus? If this is a repeat of the Spanish Flu of 1918, the worst from this is yet to come ... by September, it may prove greatly regretful that appropriate measures were thrown to the wind.
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Swine Flu Why are people dying in Mexico but not in the US
Will fatalities arise once swine flu instances spread here in the U.S.? Or is there some specific factor that is causing those south of the border to die and not us? They say it is the same H1N1 virus that they detected in the American victims in the U.S., was what killed the Mexican victims. And should this flu become a true pandemic, is it possible for this episode this time to be as lethal as was the pandemic in 1918, after so many advances in medical technology? (it has, after all, been 91 years since the Spanish flu.)
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In 2005 geneticists were studying samples of the 1918 flu virus Could this be the cause of todays flu
My grandmother always said it was best to let sleeping dogs lie, but some samples of the 1918 virus were obtained from the exhumed body of a Spanish Flu victim, buried in Alaska, and from soldiers that died on American soil as well. I may sound paranoid, but the current scenario is something you find often in science fiction novels, where the virus infects someone in the research lab, who then manages to infect everyone else outside. What do you think?
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Swine Flu Why are people dying in Mexico but not in the US
Will fatalities arise once swine flu instances spread here in the U.S.? Or is there some specific factor that is causing those south of the border to die and not us? They say it is the same H1N1 virus that they detected in the American victims in the U.S., was what killed the Mexican victims. And should this flu become a true pandemic, is it possible for this episode this time to be as lethal as was the pandemic in 1918, after so many advances in medical technology? (it has, after all, been 91 years since the Spanish flu.)
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Swine Flu Why are people dying in Mexico but not in the US
Will fatalities arise once swine flu instances spread here in the U.S.? Or is there some specific factor that is causing those south of the border to die and not us? They say it is the same H1N1 virus that they detected in the American victims in the U.S., was what killed the Mexican victims. And should this flu become a true pandemic, is it possible for this episode this time to be as lethal as was the pandemic in 1918, after so many advances in medical technology? (it has, after all, been 91 years since the Spanish flu.)
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Do you think that AIDS and other horrible STDs serve as a human selfmade punishment
for those who practice adultery? and no, I'm not just talking about homosexuals, like Eazy-E once said ""I'm not looking to blame anyone except myself. I have learned in the last week that this thing is real, and it doesn't discriminate. It affects everyone." ------- The first confirmed case of AIDS was identified on June 5, 1981. In four stories today, we look at the impact around the globe.JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP)—It began quietly, when a statistical anomaly pointed to a mysterious syndrome that attacked the immune systems of gay men in California. No one imagined 25 years ago that AIDS would become the deadliest epidemic in history. Since June 5, 1981, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has killed more than 25 million people, infected 40 million others and left a legacy of unspeakable loss, hardship, fear and despair. MORE ON AIDS Top 10 Mysterious Diseases Inside Look: How Viruses Invade Us Two Million Children with HIV HIV Traced to Wild Chimps Its spread was hastened by ignorance, prejudice, denial and the freedoms of the sexual revolution. Along the way from oddity to pandemic, AIDS changed they way people live and love. Slowed but unchecked, the epidemic's relentless march has established footholds in the world's most populous countries. Advances in medicine and prevention that have made the disease manageable in the developed world haven't reach the rest. In the worst case, sub-Saharan Africa, it has been devastating. And the next 25 years of AIDS promise to be deadlier than the first. AIDS could kill 31 million people in India and 18 million in China by 2025, according to projections by U.N. population researchers. By then in Africa, where AIDS likely began and where the virus has wrought the most devastation, researchers said the toll could reach 100 million. "It is the worst and deadliest epidemic that humankind has ever experienced,'' Mark Stirling, the director of East and Southern Africa for UNAIDS, said in an interview. More effective medicines, better access to treatment and improved prevention in the last few years have started to lower the grim projections. But even if new infections stopped immediately, additional African deaths alone would exceed 40 million, Stirling said. "We will be grappling with AIDS for the next 10, 20, 30, 50 years,'' he said. Efforts to find an effective vaccine have failed dismally, so far. The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative says 30 are being tested in small-scale trials. More money and more efforts are being poured into prevention campaigns but the efforts are uneven. Success varies widely from region to region, country to country. Still, science offers some promise. In highly developed countries, cocktails of powerful antiretroviral drugs have largely altered the AIDS prognosis from certain death to a manageable chronic illness. There is great hope that current AIDS drugs might prevent high-risk people from becoming infected. One of these, tenofovir, is being tested in several countries. Plans are to test it as well with a second drug, emtricitabine or FTC. But nothing can be stated with certainty until clinical trials are complete, said Anthony Fauci, a leading AIDS researcher and infectious diseases chief at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. And then there is the risk that treatment will create a resistant strain or, as some critics claim, cause people to lower their guard and have more unprotected sex. Medicine offers less hope in the developing world where most victims are desperately poor with little or no access to the medical care needed to administer and monitor AIDS drugs. Globally, just 1 in 5 HIV patients get the drugs they need, according to a recent report by UNAIDS, the body leading the worldwide battle against the disease. Stirling said that despite the advances, the toll over the next 25 years will go far beyond the 34 million thought to have died from the Black Death in 14th century Europe or the 20 to 40 million who perished in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic. Almost two-thirds of those infected with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa where poverty, ignorance and negligent political leadership extended the epidemic's reach and hindered efforts to contain it. In South Africa, the president once questioned the link between HIV and AIDS and the health minister urged use of garlic and the African potato to fight AIDS, instead of effective treatments. AIDS is the leading cause of death in Africa, which has accounted for nearly half of all global AIDS deaths. The epidemic is still growing and its peak could be a decade or more away. In at least seven countries, the U.N. estimates that AIDS has reduced life expectancy to 40 years or less. In Botswana, which has the world's highest infection rate, a child born today can expect to live less than 30 years. "Particularly in southern Africa, we may have to apply a new notion, and that is of 'underdeveloping http://www.ashastd.org/learn/learn_statistics.cfm
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