Virus is back - Swine flu kills small girl

KUWAIT CITY, Nov 11: An eight-year-old Kuwaiti girl died of swine flu, also known as H1N1, last week, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily.
The death certificate issued by Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital on Nov 6 states the cause of death as swine flu, say reliable sources. The child was suffering from renal failure and was hospitalized for several days. She was even shifted to the ICU, but there was no improvement in her condition and she died.
Sources say four other H1N1 cases are currently in an isolated ward in the hospital and one among them is said to be in the ICU.
Hospitals and health centers are conducting swine flu tests on all patients who are suffering from cold and high temperature, in line with Health Ministry directives, noted sources.
According to sources, H1N1 virus, which had created a global scare last winter, is making a slow comeback.

 

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Vaccines will not save us from the eventual mass killer pandemicDr David Hill | 11/13/2010 1:45:15 PM The folly of producing a vaccine in time when humankind is inevitably revisited by an equivalent mass killer of the Spanish Flu (SF) of 1918, is human madness. It is like going to war, letting the enemy take over and then fighting a gorilla war from the outside trying to fight after the event with weapons that we ‘hope’ will save us. Who would ever rely upon such foolish thinking for our ultimate wellbeing? But, that is what in reality we are doing addressing killer pandemics. Allowing it to happen first and then trying to fight it with vaccines that just simply will not come in time – for the time from detection to mass production is at least 4 months longer than the end of a killer pandemic when it has done its worst according to history. The reason, the vaccine was only given to 23% of the US population after 13 months 1 week in last year's swine flu pandemic (thank God it was just a mild one that only killed around 18,000 across the globe). For the SF took away in a horribly dying way, up to 100 million lives between week 16 and week 26, some 7 months before 23% of the equivalent US population had been immunised at the beginning of this year. Therefore we would all be well dead including our naïve politicians before we received anything, as again, the first vaccine was passed by the regulators just 7 months 1 week after initial identification, then we have to start mass-producing which takes a few more months and does not even include the logistics nightmare of mass global distribution. This madness is therefore only lining the pockets of global pharma and where all our real efforts should be in prevention at the very start and never letting it happen in the first place. For that is the only way that we will stop up 1 billion and maybe more, dying at the hands of the next killer pandemic that does reside in the future for us all according to Margaret Chan, D-G of the WHO (for adding to this we now have 3.5 times the population that we had in 1918 and with ultra-
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