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Thursday, February 25, 2010 - South Korea has sent another shipment to the quarreling north. After a first delivery in December which it primarily was the flu means Tamiflu a truck went with disinfectant about the strictly guarded limit now. The value of the cargo load amounts to a billion Won (almost 640 000 euros). North Korea reported 9 infections and no deaths till now. Private relief organizations talk, however, about far more cases. (Text: © kiwi vision, data: Ärztezeitung)

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - The US American center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed which seems the swine flu come also in the USA. A final report falls seriously since the exact count was already on 23 given up July. The epidemic didn't have to be held back any more. Appreciate the authority so - only 1 case of 73 was noticed and even at the exact count. Since this they only were still testing in 62 districts and projections then making for the entire country. These estimates start out from 9,339 to 17,160 dead bodies. The mean average value (11,690) is called official. 3 x are less dead bodies, as in the case of the seasonal flu at which up to 36,000 Americans otherwise die, this. The age distribution is also divergent. Wärend at the seasonal flu to 90% it dies, was only 1,480 persons at the swine flu over 65-year. For this but 8,980 people in the age fit for work and 1,230 children and teenagers less than 18 years. The CDC in conclusion values the hospital treatments at 57 million Americans because of H1N1 on 257,000 cases and the number of the infected. (Text: © kiwi vision, data: Ärzteblatt)

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - The Federal Office of health goes over again to normal work in Switzerland. The swine flu was declared ended. The pandemic measures stopped. Zuletzte had gone back the numbers of the new illnesses week by week. Approx. 1.3 million people let themselves be vaccinated against H1N1 in Switzerland. This corresponds to approximately so many people be able to be vaccinated against the seasonal flu every year like himself. this is estimated, 1 to 1.5 million people with the virus into touch came. A doctor was gone to 270.000 times. 561 people must because of heavier courses to the hospital. 18 Swiss died. "We lift the crisis measures and return to the normal functioning", said Virginie Masserey, leader of the department vaccinations. Also England declared the pandemic ended officially. (Text: © kiwi vision, data: News.ch)

Monday, February 8, 2010 - According to unconfirmed information web reports that almost all people shall be vaccinated against the swine flu in the context of a coercive vaccination in Costa Rica (4 million inhabitants). 1.6 million vaccinating doses are available. Producer is the French pharmaceutical manufacturer Sanofi-Aventis. The secretary for health Luisa Ávila shall have vaccinated a 27-year-old pregnant woman and have given the starting signal with that in front of a running camera. Only people with mercury or protein sensitization are excluded from the campaign. The government threatens in a government decree with even authority of the state if somebody refuses himself. It is called in it: The vaccination is obligatorily ". The population has to go to the clinical complexes. We soften first calls shall be vaccinated as a matter of priority to those, these to this. If they don't come voluntarily to us, we will look for them. You adapt yourself our officials to door on door visit in this case. We don't claim to be got to have to use police force to transport the people in medical centers but we to have a right to it into situations ". Only 1,596 people were infected with swine flu in Costa Rica till now and 47 died. (Text: © kiwi vision, data: Polskaweb)

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - WHO stays with it, that the pandemic wasn't an invention in the case of the swine flu. The alarm is is carried out. This explained the organization in Geneva. The advisers of the pharmaceutical industry hadn't influenced unreasonably. These would prevent control mechanisms. The reproach, the pandemic has been only an invention to make high profits possible for the pharmaceutical industry, is "scientifically wrongly and historically improper" as said by WHO. The procedure is topic in the Council of Europe in Strasbourg at the swine flu today. (Text: © kiwi vision, data: ORF)

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - The ECDC in Stockholm reports amplified H1N1 activities in Austria, Lithuania and the Slovakei. Whether this is the beginning of the third wave cannot be said exactly yet. The 3rd KW, however, died in renewed in the EU's 162 people, 14 more, as in the previous week. The strongest virus activities still draw Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria . (Text: © kiwi vision, data: ECDC)

Thursday, January 21, 2010 - It the cases accumulate mutated swine flu viruses of infections proceeding fatally. Keiji Fukuda of WHO said to it: Whether these mutations indicate that a fundamental change of the virus in circulation takes place is the question " - whether there is a turn with respect to the heaviness of the course of a disease to the bad " now. Sino European BioTechnology AG has started with the research to the mutated viruses in the meantime. One wants to develop a vaccine which is effective also against mutations of H1N1. This is only effectively Pandemrix used at the moment against viruses which correspond to the main tribe. (Text: © kiwi vision, data: financial.de)

Thursday, January 21, 2010 - To persuade still more people of a vaccination against the swine flu, one goes in Mexico city of unusual ways. The vaccinating centers can be found there where the people are. The vaccination is offered against swine flu in 26 busiest subway stations. The supply shall be expanded also on the markets of the town this week. This had spread out of H1N1 virus to the whole world from Mexico in April 2009. It is a professed aim of the authorities to vaccinate 24 million Mexicans until March. 30 million doses are ordered. The swine flu has claimed 70,000 cases of illness and 931 dead bodies in Mexico. (Text: © kiwi vision, data: AP)

Monday, January 11, 2010 - Furthermore the German permanent vaccinating committee (STIKO) in the RKI demands the population for the vaccination against the swine flu. The U.S. epidemic control center also does this. One refers here to the winter 1957. One had given all clear after a first big wave at that time and the flu then came back dead man bringing in March. Although the swine flu proceeds only 25% so fatally, as the flu 1957 in the USA. One nevertheless adheres to the vaccinating recommendation. Only 60 million people have let themselves be vaccinated in the USA. Vaccines are available for 136 million. (Text: © kiwi vision, data: Heise)

Thursday, January 7, 2010 - Researchers of the U.S. epidemic control center CDC have watched the swine flu together with experts of the imperial college in London. 200 households were basis with over 800 residents. In every household at first one person was infected with H1N1. The practicing quick end: No further person put herself on to the household community with H1N1 in 72%. In 21% of the cases another person. In 6% the cases' another at least two residents. One cannot describe the swine flu as a very contagious therefore. The experts, however, filled, which minors more frequently incline to this also to infect himself. Well, this are background older people would have a natural immunity from previous flu illnesses. Some viruses are very similar to the H1N1 virus and the immune system can therefore react. (Text: © kiwi vision, data: university cosmos)

Monday, January 4, 2010 - "At present, whoever has a flu has a swine flu", this statement made the American health authorities CDC. At most samples of people with flu examined laboratory technically swine flu viruses were diagnosed. The viruses hardly got H3N2, the seasonal flu stated of the tribe. The CDC evaluated data from Europe, China, the USA, Canada and Japan. More H3N2 viruses of the saisonlaen flu appeared only in China. It is certain with that that the swine flu has replaced the seasonal flu. (Text: © kiwi vision, data: ärzte zeitung online)

Friday, December 11, 2009 - The British Department of Health has determined a death rate at the swine flu of 0.026%. The 138 British deaths found influence on the result with respect to the registered infection numbers up to 11-8-2009. One for comparison purposes mentions a death rate of 2 to 3% in the year 1918 at the Spanish flu. It was a H1N1 virus also at that time which worldwide registered large portions of the population. But also the death rate was at 0.2% and thus clear in a bad flu year, like 1967/68 above the values 2009. The British Department of Health in this respect came to the end that the swine flu therefore comes rather mildly and harmlessly. (Text: kiwi vision, data: Swiss television)

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - Flu is virus in the capital Pyongyang and in Sinuiju proved the been according to information of the state news agency KCNA which refers to the Department of Health. The responsible organ "improves" the system of the quarantine against the distribution of this influenza virus further while the prevention and the medical treatment are further done it was called in the report. Deaths weren't confirmed. The buddistische relief organization "Good Friends" talked, however, about a dozen of dead bodies in North Korea. Furthermore the relief organization knew, this there is hardly medicine in isolated North Korea, why the country is delivered to the swine flu almost defenselessly. (Text: kiwi vision, data: Ärzte zeitung, n- TV)

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