Swine Flu Update- 15th July, 2010

As of 12 July, worldwide more than 214 countries and overseas territories or communities have reported laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, including over 18337deaths.
 
Vaccines- Governments, foundations and manufacturers have offered contributions of vaccines, ancillary products (such as syringes and safety boxes) and finances to support the donation initiative

• Current Status of Vaccine Supply by the WHO and Partners  (PDF)

Emerging data on Oseltamivir resistance of the virus is also worrying. Geographical distribution of oseltamivir resistance by the WHO regions (as of 14 July 2010) shows high prevalence of resistant virus strains in European, Western Pacific and North American regions (PDF)

Interestingly, 24% of the resistant cases were seen in patients who had taken post exposure prophylaxis.                                

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Faking Orgasms

Faking orgasm refers to the act of pretending to have an orgasm without actually experiencing one. It usually means simulating or acting out behaviors, such as body movements, vocal sounds, and sequences of apparent intensification followed by apparent release, typically associated with orgasm. It can also include giving verbal indications that orgasm occurred.- Wikipedia

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Bhopal gas leak: Medical data suppressed

The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal Gas Tragedy was an industrial catastrophe that occurred on the night of December 3, 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. At that time, UCIL was the Indian subsidiary of the U.S. company Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), which is now a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company. Around midnight on the intervening night of December 2–3, 1984, there was a leak of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other toxins from the plant, resulting in the exposure of over 500,000 people. Estimates vary on the death toll. The official immediate death toll was 2,259 and the government of Madhya Pradesh has confirmed a total of 3,787 deaths related to the gas release. Other government agencies estimate 15,000 deaths.

Since the day they were hit by the deadly Methyl Isocynate (MIC) gas, the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have been suffering with various health problems. Rayeesa Bi has had breathing problems. She has lost her eyesight and is bed-ridden; 14-year-old Suraj was born with congenital deformities, so was Kartikey and Khushi living in the same neighbourhood. Their parents are all gas victims.

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Swine Flu Update- 15 th May 2010

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Clean hands can prevent the spread of disease

Clean hands can prevent the spread of disease: "The WHO 'Save lives: clean your hands' campaign invites healthcare workers, hospitals and organizations around the world to actively promote improved hand hygiene to reduce infections."

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40% of cancers are preventable

About two out of five cancers can be prevented: "As we mark World Cancer Day, this episode focuses on cancer prevention. Each year, over 12 million people are diagnosed with cancer. Cancer kills more people than AIDS, malaria, and TB combined but the good news is that approximately two out of five cancers are potentially preventable."

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WHO and Pharma team up to fool the people ?

via thefirstpost.co.uk

Eminent doctors are now coming out openly with comments on the alleged "Swine-Flu-pandemic conspiracy". Dr Wolfgang Wodarg, an epidemiologist, claims the WHO was persuaded to change the definition of 'pandemic' by scientists linked to pharmaceutical companies in order to trigger lucrative 'sleeping' vaccination contracts. The accusations are to be investigated by the Council of Europe after Dr Wodarg, the chairman of the body's health committee, tabled a damning resolution. Dr Wodarg claims the WHO "in cooperation with some big pharmaceutical companies and their scientists re-defined pandemics and lowered the alarm threshold" so that governments would begin to order vaccines. In fact, at one time , the WHO warned against preventive anti-virals thus leaving a free field for Vaccines.

GlaxoSmithKlein is estimated to have made $1.7 billion from sales of H1N1 vaccine sales in the fourth quarter of 2009 alone. Lower than expected uptake of the vaccine has led to a huge oversupply, to the extent that France, Britain, Germany and the Netherlands are all attempting to sell or give away surplus shots - or cancel orders, where possible.

Quite apart from the cost implications to already stretched national health budgets, if Dr Wodarg is right, then millions of healthy people have been, as he puts it, "unnecessarily" exposed to "the risk of poorly tested vaccines" for a flu strain that is "vastly less harmful" than all previous flu epidemics.

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