Posts tagged Spanish flu
First U.S. swine flu death
Apr 29th
A 23-month old child in Texas is the first confirmed victim of the swine flu in the US. It’s too early to say how this will play out; if the number of suspected deaths in Mexico are really due to this strain of flu, then the case fatality rate is higher than that of the 1918 Spanish flu. However, it’s unknown if this strain is as communicable as the 1918 strain.
One question that I’ve not seen asked or answered: Why is the Department of Homeland Security taking the lead on America’s response to this? Why not Health and Human Services? More >
Everything old is flu again
Apr 25th
Dr. Henry Niman, founder and president of Recombinomics, Inc., makes his living by tracking the evolution of viruses. We interviewed Henry on P.I.D. Radio several times in 2005 about a strain of swine flu in China that looked like a recombinant form of Ebola, an influenza virus that surfaced in Korean pigs that appeared to trace back to laboratories in England in the late 1930s, and the general spread of avian flu around the world.
Dr. Niman has been watching the new strain of swine flu spreading northward from Mexico in recent days, and he doesn’t like what he sees:
The confirmed cases More >
