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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page JULY 27 , 2009 ------- Ooooops forgetting to archive to here - check News & Views page for daily updates CLICK HERE...BroJ WHO SAYS SWINE-FLU VIRUS COULD INFECT 2 BILLION The World Health Organization says the H1N1 swine-flu virus could infect up to two billion people over the next two years - about one of every three people in the world. A senior official for the U.N. agency, Keiji Fukuda, told an Associated Press interviewer Friday that WHO has been reporting only laboratory-confirmed cases thus far, but those are really only a fraction of the total number of swine-flu infections. Speaking in Geneva, the health agency's headquarters, Fukuda said the global epidemic is still in its early stages. A separate WHO report Friday said the virus has spread to almost every country in the world, killing about 800 people since it emerged in April. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that up to 40 percent of Americans could contract swine-flu over the next two years. Unless an effective swine-flu vaccine is developed and produced successfully, the American government's experts say up to several hundred thousand people could die nationwide. The first U.S. human trials of a potential swine-flu vaccine could begin in a few weeks. If all goes well, Fukuda said the first vaccine doses could be available before cold weather - the normal peak season for flu - arrives in the Northern Hemisphere in a few months. The White House said Friday that it has been holding regular meetings to prepare for an expected spike in U.S. infections after September. The U.S. has the highest number of swine-flu fatalities of any country in the world, followed by Argentina and Mexico. In Britain, Europe's hardest-hit country, new cases of swine flu spiked last week to 100,000, nearly twice as many as the week before The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page JULY 3, 2009 ------- Oooooops been forgetting to archive post to here check this link for DAILY UPDATES...BroJ UK SWINE FLU CAN NO LONGER BE CONTAINED Swine flu is spreading so rapidly across Britain that there could be 100,000 new cases a day by the end of next month, the health secretary, Andy Burnham, said today. The UK would immediately move to the ‘treatment phase’ of its plan to combat swine flu, meaning doctors would no longer test for the H1N1 virus and urge anyone with symptoms to stay at home, Burnham told the House of Commons. The first swine flu vaccine would be made available from August, with 60 million doses available by the end of the year, he added. ‘We have reached the next stage in management of the disease,’ Burnham said. ‘The national focus will be on treating the increasing numbers affected by swine flu. We will move to this treatment phase across the UK with immediate effect.’ The move does not mean the H1N1 virus, which was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization last month, is becoming more deadly, just that it can no longer be contained. Burnham said there was a ‘considerable rise’ in swine flu cases last week. ‘We have always known it would be impossible to contain the virus indefinitely and at some point we would need to move away from containment to treatment. ‘Cases are doubling every week and on this trend we could see over 100,000 cases per day by the end of August. ‘The pressure on the system is such that it is the right time to take this step. Scientists can expect to see rapid rises in the number of cases.’ The Health Protection Agency today announced that another 518 patients in England had been confirmed with swine flu, while the figure for the UK as a whole rose to 7,447 The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page August 11, 2008 -------- End of AIDS Pandemic "nowhere in sight" The world's largest AIDS conference ended Friday with governments, health experts and HIV-positive people determined to tackle the next 25 years of the pandemic There were few answers - none were really expected - at the XVII International AIDS Conference, held for the first time in Latin America and attended by 25,000 people. 'For the first time, fewer people are dying of AIDS and fewer people are becoming infected with HIV,' said Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, the joint United Nations program on HIV/AIDS. But he warned: 'The end of AIDS is nowhere in sight.' The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page August 4, 2008 -------- 'Inevitable' flu pandemic could kill 50 million worldwide Britain is facing an 'inevitable' and 'devastating' flu pandemic which will kill up to 75,000 people, a government committee revealed today. The outbreak – most likely a strain of bird flu which could claim the lives of up to 50 million worldwide – will be on a scale not seen for decades. The pandemic will require an ‘urgent’ response to prevent the rapid spread of infection, the powerful House of Lords Intergovernmental Organizations Committee warned. They slammed Britain’s ‘poorly coordinated’ disease control systems, which are run by too many similar groups. And the Lords also attacked the World Health Organization (WHO) as ‘dysfunctional’ and lacking the ‘organisation and resources’ to curb a major outbreak. Echoing the report, the Government said: ‘While there has not been a pandemic since 1968, another one is inevitable. The last pandemics to hit Britain, caused by mild influenza, were in 1918 and 1968. But the report raised concerns that an outbreak caused by the H5N1 strain, found in birds and poultry, could be utterly devastating, as prevention methods were ‘less comprehensive’ than for human illnesses. It predicted human-to-human transmission ‘in the near future.’........ The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page MAY 28, 2008 -------- MAY 28, 2008 --------SCIENTISTS WARN OF BIRD FLU EPIDEMIC A strain of bird flu has moved a step closer to developing the traits required to create an epidemic of the disease in humans, scientists warned on Monday. Researchers who analyzed samples of recent avian flu viruses found that a strain of the virus called H7N2 had adapted slightly better to living in mammals. Tests on ferrets proved the strain could be passed between animals but scientists said the evidence suggested that bird flu could be transmitted between humans. Dr Terrence Tumpey, a microbiologist with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta, Georgia, said: ‘The finding underscores the necessity for continued surveillance and study of these viruses as they continue to resemble viruses with pandemic potential.’ The virus tested on the ferrets - a standard animal model of flu in humans - was isolated from a man in New York in 2003, where it thrived on the same sugars found in the human windpipe. The scientists said the virus could be evolving toward the same strong sugar-binding properties of the three worldwide viral pandemics in 1918, 1957 and 1968. Like H5N1, the H7 family of flu viruses also primarily affects birds. A deadly version of the H7N7 strain hit poultry in the Netherlands in 2003, and a less severe form, H7N2, broke out in the UK last year. Some have estimated the death toll of an avian flu pandemic could be 100 million, including 500,000 in Britain The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page MAY 16, 2008 -------- Preparation for a pandemic GlaxoSmithKline PLC said it has received permission from European medical regulators to market a human bird flu vaccine. It has already sold to several governments to stockpile in preparation for a pandemic. Prepandrix, which targets the H5N1 virus, is the first vaccine to receive a license for pre-pandemic use in all 27 European Union member states. Switzerland has ordered 8 million doses, enough to cover the country's entire population. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has ordered 27.5 million doses. Finland and several other European countries have also placed orders. "This vaccine marks a significant step in the world's ability to cope with an influenza pandemic," said Glaxo CEO Jean-Pierre Garnier. However, Glaxo is just one of several pharmaceutical companies, including Novartis SA and Sanofi Aventis, developing vaccines against H5N1 bird flu. Experts believe H5N1, which has killed at least 241 people worldwide, is the most likely candidate to mutate into a pandemic virus. Since late 2003, the virus has been circulating in Asia, Europe and Africa, and several distinct H5N1 strains have arisen. Glaxo has said its vaccine works against these other versions of the virus as well, announcing study results last year showing it even reacts against the Indonesian type of H5N1, a genetically different virus. If a vaccine protects against different H5N1 strains, people could theoretically be pre-vaccinated before getting a booster shot with a new formulation containing the pandemic strain once the global outbreak strikes. But if it is another flu subtype that causes the next pandemic, like H7 or H9, which have also caused human bird flu cases, vaccines created using the H5N1 strain will probably be useless. The license from the EMEA equated to formal validation of the quality and efficiency of the vaccine. Glaxo has agreed to donate 50 million doses of the vaccine to the World Health Organization to create a pandemic vaccine stockpile for poor countries. The vaccines will be delivered over a three-year period and should provide enough doses for 25 million people as each person needs two shots. Full production capacity would be determined after an outbreak. ***WATCHMAN...DANGER LURKING IN FLU SHOTS ***Did you know that the FLU SHOT (why not others?) could contain anything from aluminum, formaldehyde, dangerous microorganisms, thimersal (mercury), ethylene glycol (used in car antifreeze - found in toothpaste from China), and other TOXIC substances. ***In addition to these substances, the FLU VACCINE is prepared from the fluids of chicken embryos inoculated with the SPECIFIC TYPE('s) of INFLUENZA VIRUS that SUPPOSEDLY protects against the strains Federal Health Officials believe are most likely to be prevalent during the FLU season... The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page MAY 9, 2008 -------- MAY 9, 2008 -------- Pandemic flu threat remains substantial, health experts say The world still faces a substantial threat of a flu pandemic and countries need to speed up preparations for a global outbreak, health experts said Tuesday. "We can't delude ourselves. The threat of a pandemic influenza has not diminished," said Keiji Fukuda, coordinator for the World Health Organization's Global Influenza Program. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page MAY 7, 2008 -------- Risk of bird flu pandemic probably growing The risk of a human influenza pandemic remains real and is probably growing as the bird flu virus becomes entrenched in poultry in more countries, health officials warned on Tuesday. The H5N1 avian flu virus has infected flocks in much of Asia, Africa and parts of Europe. Experts fear it could mutate into a form that passes easily from person to person, sparking an influenza pandemic that could kill millions. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page January 25, 2008-------- SOUTH, SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES BATTLING BIRD FLU OUTBREAKS Health officials in India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Vietnam have ordered the culling of millions of chickens as they attempt to control fresh outbreaks of bird flu. In India, the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus has spread rapidly in recent weeks among poultry flocks in the eastern state of West Bengal - a densely populated region of more than 25 million people. Indian Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar says the culling of affected poultry needs to be speeded up. He says villagers are resisting the culling of birds because there have been delays in granting them compensation. ‘Authorities in West Bengal admit they are falling behind in attempts to slaughter the affected birds, and have appealed to other states for assistance,’ said Pawar. ‘There have been no human infections reported yet in India, but health officials in West Bengal fear that ignorance of the disease is increasing the chances of its spread to humans. There are reports of children playing with chickens in affected villages, and dead birds being dumped in ponds. Human beings can catch bird flu by coming into direct contact with infected poultry.’ ‘In Bangladesh, which adjoins West Bengal, the virus has spread to nearly half of the country,’ said Pawar. ‘The government has been struggling to contain the disease since last March.’ Thailand has reported its first outbreak of bird flu in 10 months in a region north of Bangkok. Officials say more than four thousand chickens have already been slaughtered in the country, which is among those hardest hit by the virus since it reappeared in Asia in 2003,’ said Pawar. ......................... BANGLADESH: Eighty-four poultry farms report deadly bird flu virus Avian influenza, or bird flu, continues to spread in Bangladesh, with 26 of the country's 64 districts now affected, health officials say. On 23 January the Department of Livestock confirmed the presence of the H5N1 virus in 84 poultry farms across the country. To date, over 315,000 poultry birds have been culled at 109 farms, while veterinarians are struggling to inspect many thousands more at farms throughout the country. .......................... Turkey culls poultry to stop spread of bird flu Turkish authorities culled nearly 600 poultry in villages near the Black Sea coast on Wednesday after an outbreak of bird flu was reported there. The outbreak occurred on a farm in Nakhon Sawan, 240 km (149 miles) north of Bangkok, where the owner reported 4,085 chickens had died earlier this month, senior Livestock Department official Nirundorn Aungtragoolsuk told .......................... Bird flu strikes again in northern Thailand The H5N1 bird flu virus has re-emerged in a northern Thai province for the first time since March last year, forcing the slaughter of 10,000 chickens, an Agriculture Ministry official said. The H5N1 bird flu virus has re-emerged in a northern Thai province for the first time since March last year, forcing the slaughter of 10,000 chickens, an Agriculture Ministry official said. The outbreak occurred on a farm in Nakhon Sawan, 240 km (149 miles) north of Bangkok, where the owner reported 4,085 chickens had died earlier this month, senior Livestock Department official Nirundorn Aungtragoolsuk told ....................... China warns against rebound in leprosy cases China is recording an annual average of more than 1,600 new leprosy cases and will spend $30 million this year to renovate leprosy villages which are home to thousands of people, the Health Ministry said. Those diagnosed with leprosy in China were once exiled forcibly to remote "leper colonies", a practice which ended in the 1980s when a hugely successful multi-drug therapy was introduced. The country now has just a little more than 6,000 sufferers, drastically down from the estimated 500,000 in 1949 The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page January 23, 2008-------- USA PANDEMIC??? Epidemic superbug strains evolved from one bacterium: study The drug-resistant "superbugs" that have cut a swathe through day care centers, schools, locker rooms and prisons across the United States in the last five years stem from one rapidly evolving bacterium, US scientists said Monday. ............................................ EPIDEMIC SUPERBUG STRAINS EVOLVED FROM ONE BACTERIUM The drug-resistant ‘superbugs’ that have cut a swathe through day care centers, schools, locker rooms and prisons across the United States in the last five years stem from one rapidly evolving bacterium, US scientists said Monday. Scientists studying the genetic make-up of these bugs, which are resistant to almost all antibiotics, say they are nearly identical clones that have emerged from a single bacterial strain, which they have dubbed USA300. ‘The USA300 group of strains appears to have extraordinary transmissibility and fitness,’ said Frank DeLeo, a researcher with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Hamilton, Montana. ‘We anticipate that new USA300 derivatives will emerge within the next several years and that these strains will have a wide range of disease-causing potential.’ Most drug-resistant staph infections cause soft-tissue infections such as boils that are readily treatable, but a skin infection can become a deadly pneumonia or blood or bone infection in a matter of days if the patient doesn't get the right drugs. What's particularly worrying to health authorities is that the MRSA infections, (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) have spread beyond their traditional hospital setting, seeding an epidemic in the wider community The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page January 10, 2008-------- NOTE: I had NO THOUGHT of a DISEASE when I spoke the following word of PROPHECY last Sunday. May GOD HELP US!...BroJ PROPHECY Sunday January 6, 2007 Yea saith the Lord, for upon the earth comes a change, a change that has never been seen or known of before, and it will continue until the time of the end, for men have turned their eyes from me saith the Lord, the have not heeded my word, they reject the ways of my people, they persecute my loved ones, my children, and they shall find the new change devastating unto them, for it shall shake them to their very foundation, just before my Son returns says the Lord. Tropical dengue fever may threaten U.S.: report "Widespread appearance of dengue in the continental United States is a real possibility," ***WATCHMAN... WHAT HAVE I BEEN TELLING YOU about these things starting FIRST in FOREIGN COUNTRIES and then all of a sudden there are Hererrrrrrrr. ..........NOW WHAT HAPPENS "IF" THIS COMES TO THE USA??? 3.6 million off work as UK Norovirus Epidemic takes toll MORE than 3.6million staff — over four per cent of the UK workforce — have so far rung in sick this week, it was revealed yesterday. The norovirus, coughs colds and tummy bugs have all added to the absence epidemic which experts predict could worsen in days to come. Aaron Ross of FirstCare, the biggest UK agency for sickness and absence cover, said: “This is the worst period of sickness we’ve ever seen. “It’s the closest thing to a pandemic employers have experienced in years and it should be a wake up call for businesses that don’t have contingency plans for high sickness rates. “Most organizations are experiencing real trouble starting up again after the long break.” He claimed many who say they have norovirus were using it as an excuse to SKIP. And he predicted the UK sick list could soon grow as staff covering for others fall ill — through overwork. Sufferers are advised to stay at home for two days after symptoms finish. ***WATCHMAN... The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth! MATTHEW 24:7-8 PARAPHRASED ""For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be... pestilences... in divers places... see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass... ........................................ You thought the UK Norovirus Epidemic was bad? Meet its bigger - and uglier - sister The season for winter illness is upon us and the UK is in the grip of an outbreak of the highly infectious stomach bug, norovirus. The bug, which causes diarrhea and vomiting, can occur all year round, but is most often seen in winter. This year the outbreak has been particularly bad - the worst for five years - and is predicted to peak at around 200,000 cases a week. Dozens of hospital wards across the country have been closed to prevent the spread of the disease among patients. In one day alone last week more than 100 wards were forced to close and vital operations were cancelled due to pressure on staff. "The norovirus outbreak started even earlier in the year than usual," says Dr Clarence Tam, an expert in contagious gastro diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. 200,000 a week catch norovirus sickness bug...and there's no treatment "We saw the first large numbers coming through in September, rather than the usual November. It is too early to say why this outbreak is so widespread, but there are clues from the last epidemic in 2002. "It was discovered then that the norovirus had mutated from its usual structure and this wiped out any previous immunity people may have built up to the virus. It is possible this has happened again." But it isn't just stomach bugs that will cause havoc this winter. Each year, around 28,000 people in the UK succumb to what experts term "excess winter deaths" caused by illnesses ranging from respiratory infections to gastric disorders. "Most winter epidemics are caused by viral infections, which thrive on close contact," explains Dr John Britton, of the Royal College of Physicians. "We all tend to stay indoors more in winter, and that provides an ideal environment for viruses to spread. "In addition, our immune systems tend to be depressed in winter, which lessens our ability to ward off infection. According to Professor Steve Field of the Royal College of GPs, the best defiance against viral infection is to avoid crowded places, to maintain a healthy immune system, and get plenty of rest. The symptoms of novovirus to watch out for include sudden vomiting and diarrhoea and sometimes fever, aches and pains. "Stay at home, take paracetamol, and drink plenty of fluids," says Professor Field. "Avoid contact with other people for 48 hours after symptoms have gone." But if you thought norovirus was bad, consider its big sister, rotavirus. This is an extremely contagious gastric viral infection, passed via contact with diarrhea, or through airborne particles. Hardier than the norovirus, it can survive on human skin for up to four hours and in water for weeks. The symptoms are similar to norovirus but more severe, especially in children. Symptoms include high fever, vomiting and watery diarrhea. The only way to confirm rotavirus rather than norovirus is by a fecal test. Almost every child under five will contract rotavirus at some point - one of the major causes of winter hospital admissions for children. Last year 1,800 infants under two were hospitalized with it. Half of adults in contact with the infection will catch it, but only a third will suffer symptoms as their immune systems are stronger. A strict hygiene routine is essential to prevent the virus spreading. Paracetamol (use infant formulations for children) can help with the pain and fever. Make sure you drink fluids to guard against dehydration - and patients should be kept in isolation from others for 48 hours after symptoms have stopped. ................................. Tropical dengue fever may threaten US Dengue fever -- a tropical infection that usually causes flu-like illness -- may be poised to spread across the United States and urgent study is needed, health officials said on Tuesday. Cases of the sometimes deadly mosquito-borne disease have been reported in Texas and this may be the beginning of a new trend, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and his senior scientific adviser, Dr. David Morens. A warming climate and less-than-stellar efforts to control mosquitoes could accelerate its spread northwards, they cautioned. "Widespread appearance of dengue in the continental United States is a real possibility," they wrote in a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Worldwide, dengue is among the most important reemerging infectious diseases, with an estimated 50 to 100 million annual cases, 500,000 hospitalizations and, by World Health Organization estimates, 22,000 deaths, mostly in children." They compared dengue to West Nile virus, which first appeared in New York in 1999 and has now spread to the entire continental United States, Canada and Mexico. West Nile killed at least 98 people in the United States last year. Both viruses are carried by mosquitoes. Dengue can be carried by the Aedes albopictus or Asian tiger mosquito -- first seen in 1985 in the United States -- as well as the more common Aedes aegypti species. Most people infected with a dengue virus have no symptoms or a mild fever. It can cause minor bleeding from the nose or gums, but can also cause severe fever and shock and without treatment can kill. "The combined effects of global urbanization and increasing air travel are expected to make dengue a growing international health problem for the foreseeable future," Fauci and Morens wrote. ................................ UK Doctors ordered to hide death toll from hospital infections Joan Horne once worked for the National Health Service. In her day the wards were scrubbed with bleach, while nurses washed their hands with soap and water before caring for a patient. If not, a strict matron wanted to know why. ***WATCHMAN... Today FEW in Hospitals wash their hands! While visiting my wife in a 3 WEEK STAY I saw only ONE NURSES AID who CONSISTENTLY washed with antibacterial solution... She has never forgotten the golden era of the NHS. So when 78-year-old Joan watched Edwin, her husband of 37 years, die after catching a deadly superbug at her local hospital, she began a fight for justice. Just before Christmas, a tape recorder in her hand, she marched off to Barnsley Hospital in Yorkshire and forced managers to admit that not only had Edwin contracted a lethal infection called Clostridium difficile (C. diff) as a patient, but that doctors were ordered not to declare the truth on his death certificate. Doctors ordered to not record hospital infections on death certificates Joan said: "I fear this kind of cover-up is happening at hospitals all over the country. I miss Edwin terribly, but the way we lost him and dishonesty by the hospital about the real cause of his death has made it all much worse for me and my family. I was desperate to bring Edwin home. The hospital was dirty. I found a used syringe under the bed, soiled cotton wool pads left on his floor and there were human faeces smeared on the door. Looking back, it is no surprise he caught a superbug." Edwin died on April 12 last year aged 82. He had been in hospital for just a fortnight after complaining of feeling frail while on holiday. Although Edwin had suffered from rectal cancer in the past, the disease was in remission and Joan says that he was expected to make a full recovery at the hospital - until he caught C. diff. His death, and thousands of others, lie at the heart of a growing scandal over NHS superbugs. Yesterday Tory leader David Cameron said hospitals should be fined for every patient who catches an infection on their wards. But would such a crackdown just lead to more secrecy about superbugs? In 2006 almost 56,000 elderly hospital patients caught C. diff, which is spread by poor hygiene, dirty hands and soiled bedding. Amazingly, we still don't know how many of these people died because the figures have not yet been released by the NHS. In 2005, the latest year that death statistics for C. diff were available, 3,807 hospital patients died, a rise of almost 70 per cent over the previous 12 months. But the truth is that this figure may be utterly meaningless because many people, including Joan, believe there is a cover-up over the figures. As this investigation has discovered, when a person dies from a hospital superbug the details are often left off the death certificate. The practice has become so widespread that last autumn the Government's chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, wrote to hospitals and doctors warning them that any dishonesty has to stop. He said: "There is still a widespread belief that the figures underestimate the mortality associated with both MRSA and C. difficile. This is compounded by the idea that doctors are reluctant to put information about hospital-acquired infections on certificates, or indeed that they are discouraged from doing so." But will this make hospitals tell the truth? Phil Barnes, a medical negligence lawyer specializing in hospital infections at Anthony Collins, the Birmingham solicitors, said: "I often attend inquests of people who have died in hospital. Their families tell me that their relative had C. diff, yet it is not on the death certificate. I suspect that there are many cases like this. "The doctors fail to put all the contributing factors on the certificate. If a patient has died of bronchopneumonia caused by a hospital-acquired infection then they will just put down bronchopneumonia. When an elderly patient contracts C. diff they are sick, they vomit, have diarrhea, and that causes dehydration and kidney failure. Time and again doctors will just put down kidney failure as the cause of death." None of this surprises Marion Ham. The 60-year-old widow fought a seven month battle to get a hospital and a pathologist to admit that a superbug had contributed to her husband David's death in October 2006. He had a minor breathing problem but caught the most common hospital acquired infection, MRSA ( Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aureus), during a simple procedure to drain his lung at the Conquest Hospital in Hastings, Sussex. Marion says David was meant to stay in hospital for one weekend. Three weeks later he was dead, after catching MRSA. Yet his original death certificate did not allude to the superbug, but claimed he had succumbed to pneumonia and "adult respiratory death syndrome". In other words, his lungs had given up. Marion recalls: "I was horrified to find that David's operation was conducted in a busy, dirty ward and beside another seriously sick patient. He went in on a Saturday. By Tuesday he had a high fever, by Thursday he was on high doses of oxygen, by Friday he was in intensive care. Seven days after going into hospital for a minor operation he was on life support and it was downhill from there on until he died. "A hospital nurse did mention MRSA to me when David became ill but so casually I didn't take much notice. The hospital never warned it could kill him." After the funeral, Marion went to see the pathologist at the hospital who had conducted a post-mortem on David. He told her that it was more than likely that MRSA had contributed to David's death. But the pathologist said that because her 60-year-old husband had been given so many antibiotics to try to save him, they could have disguised another ailment. She persisted. Finally, the pathologist agreed to ask for an independent second opinion. It resulted in the death certificate details being changed to include a reference to MRSA. "I was given some peace by that," she says. "I was also pleased to find that the hospital has now opened a treatment room off the ward where David died so small operations can be carried out there in complete isolation." The hospital declined to comment on the case. The Government says that there were 6,381 cases of MRSA in England last year, although some experts believe it could be nearer to 100,000. The latest figures from the Health Protection Agency and the British Pediatric Surveillance Unit show that 74 cases involved children, three-quarters of them babies of less than a year old. It is not known how many of them died. Data from the National Office of Statistics shows that deaths from MRSA rose from 51 in 1993 to 1,629 in 2005. But the startling totals are likely to be the tip of the iceberg. Graham Tanner, chairman of the National Concern for Healthcare Infections, has warned there is 'vast underreporting' of C. diff and MRSA. The number of hospital-acquired infections in England alone is, according to his organization, really 230,000 a year, with an average mortality rate of 15 per cent. Only this week, a worried doctor told me that MRSA and C. diff is rife in London's major teaching hospitals. He said that of 16 patients in a single ward at one hospital 'four have C. diff and three have MRSA, and that is typical of the situation in every ward'. Meanwhile, a funeral director in the North of England went further. He estimated that four in five of all elderly hospital patients dying in his seaside town near Blackpool have MRSA or C. diff. Tony Field, the chairman of MRSA Support UK - which advises hundreds of families who have lost loved ones - believes these accounts, although they are anecdotal. "By law, the doctors and pathologists should be putting down if a hospital infection is a primary or a secondary cause of death. We are hearing from family after family that the death certificates are not mentioning the truth, so obviously the real figure is covered up." Graziella Kontowsky, founder of a similar support organization, C. Diff Support UK, agrees. 'I used to be a nurse and there is a pattern if you look at the dead patients' notes. With C. diff the white blood count goes up sky high and then the kidneys of the patient pack up. You can tell it is a sudden infection which developed in hospital, but the death certificate from the hospital doctor or pathologist will just state kidney failure.' Meanwhile, Prof Hugh Pennington, one of the country's top microbiologists and an expert on MRSA, believes there is going to be a drastic reaction from patients themselves. "People, particularly older people, are now so scared of catching a deadly infection while being treated by the NHS that they will avoid going to hospital at all or save up for months to pay privately. Either way, their health could be at risk." On the internet forums discussing hospital-acquired infections there are cries for help from families all over the country. One letter posted this autumn from a Stephie Filby is typical of hundreds posted. She wrote recently: "My father had a stroke last summer. Within a few weeks of being in hospital he had cut his foot on the bed and had contracted MRSA. He opted to have an amputation. "He came home a month later and in a week was having breathing difficulties. He was re-admitted with pneumonia. While there he contracted C. diff. He came home and died last Sunday. To make matters worse, the doctor is refusing to put C. diff on the death certificate as either the cause of death or even a contributing factor." Tellingly, Stephie's letter adds that the registrar who prepared her father's death certificate told her: "The doctors won't put the truth on the certificates as they like to keep their figures down. So if they can blame the death on something else, they will." Gillian Lebbon, a midwife, believes this also happened in the case of her father, Ronald, who died last year at 81 in a large NHS hospital near Portsmouth. The former quantity surveyor was having surgery on a ruptured esophagus, and was expected to make a full recovery. Instead, he caught MRSA in his lungs from infected drainage tubes which led to pneumonia. "After my father died the health authority rang my mother, Jean, and asked if she had any objection to pneumonia being put on his death certificate. There was no mention of MRSA and my mother was so saddened by my father's death she did not create a fuss." Yet when Ronald's family were told he had the superbug, the nurse in charge said she was not surprised as he was being treated in an open ward where MRSA was rife. "I feel now there was a cover-up to keep the MRSA figures secret at the hospital," says Gillian. But what of Joan Horne? She and her husband Edwin had just enjoyed a 12-day winter break in Malta when he said he felt inexplicably tired. Worried about his health, they flew home a week early to Manchester airport. Edwin was admitted to Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester on March 23 last year. When doctors could not find anything wrong with him he was transferred nearer home to Barnsley Hospital five days later. There, Edwin seemed to be improving. After nearly a week, his bed was put in a cubicle off the main ward. Joan was told it was because he had terrible diarrhea. It was only on April 7 that Joan and the couple's family were finally informed by the hospital that he had contracted a potential killer, C. diff. By then Edwin was weakening fast but told his wife: "Don't fuss love." Joan says: "I realized that C. diff is highly dangerous and yet we'd all been holding Edwin's hand and giving him a kiss. People were allowed to wander in and out of the cubicle freely. "When Edwin died his death certificate said the cause was cancer, chronic kidney disease and a urinary tract infection. The superbug was never mentioned. It was a lie. "It was only when I went to the hospital with my tape recorder and had a meeting with the officials there that they admitted to me C. diff should have been put on the certificate." Now Joan hopes that the wording will be changed. A spokesman at Barnsley Hospital said: "We have been open and honest in our discussions with the late Mr. Horne's relatives and have apologized to them if the care we gave was not up to our usual very high standards. "We are currently reviewing the guidance we give doctors on completing death certificates to see if there is a benefit in recording C. diff when it has a lesser bearing on the cause of death." Today Joan and her family only have their memories of Edwin. "When we were on holiday in Malta, he sat on the balcony, smiling down while I played bowls on the grass below," remembered Joan this week at her home in Yorkshire. She adds sadly: "Edwin was happy and he didn't deserve to die simply for trusting the NHS to make him strong again." ***WATCHMAN... Makes me WONDER - Did my wife die from a SUPERBUG she acquired while in the HOSPITAL???... ....................................... UK Superbug deaths up 30-fold in decade A huge rise in deaths linked to the superbug MRSA in just over a decade has been revealed in official figures. The number of death certificates that name the infection as a "contributory factor" has soared from 51 cases in 1993 - the first year in which records were kept - to 1,629 in 2005, a 30-fold increase. Experts and campaigners believe that even this figure is only the tip of the iceberg because many hospitals try to avoid listing MRSA as a cause of death if they can find alternative explanations. Ministers admitted the scale of the rise after being questioned in the Commons last week. Officials sought to explain the figures by saying that many deaths involving MRSA were those of "patients who were admitted to hospital because they were already seriously ill with another condition". Three years ago when John Reid was the health secretary, he pledged to halve the MRSA rate by 2008. In January, however, a leaked memo revealed not only that the deadline would not be met but that the target might never be achieved. The memo admitted that a certain level of MRSA was unavoidable, but could not specify what that level was. Britain has one of the worst MRSA rates in Europe, ranking only above Malta, Romania, Cyprus and Portugal. The latest figures show that, after peaking in 2004/05, the number of infections is beginning to drop. In the last quarter of 2006, the latest recorded figure, the number of cases fell by 7 per cent to 1,542. However, the statistics only cover cases where the infection is carried in the bloodstream. Experts say these account for less than 10 per cent of all MRSA infections and exclude thousands of cases affecting organs or wounds. Dr Mark Enright, a microbiologist at Imperial College, London said: "I would expect that the death figures substantially under-report the true situation. In a lot of cases, MRSA doesn't make it on to the death certificate when it should. Instead you see organ failure, pneumonia, or sepsis. "Often it is hard to say exactly how much of a contribution MRSA caused to the death, but there is a tendency not to include it." Dr Enright, who accused the Government of focusing on waiting lists and NHS targets at the expense of infection control, described the rise in MRSA over the past 12 years as "startling". He said that neither the number of deaths officially linked to MRSA nor the rate of bloodstream infections provided a full picture. "I would say bloodstream infections account for 10 per cent of the infections in total," he said. "If people tested every infection, the rate would be far, far higher." Prof Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at Aberdeen University, said that the best chance of stopping the spread of MRSA had come in the early Nineties when the number of cases began to rise sharply. However, such was the focus on "pushing patients through the system" that the government at the time had failed to invest in isolation facilities and screening systems, which were key to tackling the bug. John Howard Crews, 50, died in hospital in December 2003, three months after suffering a heart attack. His death certificate recorded the cause of death as pneumonia and cardiac failure. However, his stepson Derek Butler, who witnessed the last six hours of his stepfather's life in which he was "coiled up in a fetal position with his legs turned blue", was convinced an infection was to blame. When he and his mother asked questions of Blackpool Victoria Hospital, it emerged that Mr. Howard Crews's lungs were "profusely infected with MRSA" and that the infection had been identified a week before his death. Mr. Butler, who chairs the campaign group MRSA Action UK, said his stepfather had been betrayed by the Government's failure to tackle soaring rates of infection. "Tony Blair told the British people that they had 24 hours to save the NHS," he said. "He had the opportunity to do it and he failed." Andrew Lansley, shadow health secretary, said the Government's "target culture" and the resulting high bed occupancy rates had allowed MRSA to become "endemic". "Evidence shows that bed occupancy rates remain too high, with many nurses still reporting that there isn't time to clean beds thoroughly between patients," he said. Katherine Murphy, of the Patients Association, said: "We need more accurate reporting. "We hear time and time again of cases where there is MRSA but the death certificate says pneumonia, or a chest infection, and it is only when relatives start asking questions that they find out that MRSA was present." ........................................... Stop giving antibiotics for colds, UK doctors told Doctors are to be told to stop prescribing antibiotics for coughs, colds and sore throats because over-use of the drugs is fuelling the spread of killer hospital superbugs. Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, says it is time to end the unnecessary use of penicillin and other commonly-prescribed pills, which cost the NHS £1.7 billion a year. Stop giving antibiotics for colds, doctors told Over-use of antibiotics is blamed for the rise of drug-resistant superbugs Using antibiotics too liberally has led to bugs such as MRSA becoming resistant to treatment with the drugs. Most colds, coughs and flu are caused by viruses, which cannot be treated with antibiotics anyway, Mr. Johnson points out. Announcing a £270 million campaign against superbugs, to be launched next month, he says it is vital that doctors adopt "less of a knee-jerk reaction to prescribing". The campaign, called Clean, Safe Care, will also include an extra £45 million for hospitals to spend on infection control nurses or antibiotic specialist pharmacists. All patients going into hospital will be screened for MRSA by 2009. Staff have already been told they must be "bare below the elbows" to help prevent the spread of infection between patients and all hospitals should undergo a "deep clean" by March this year, although experts have dismissed this as a gimmick. Mr Johnson says: "The past 60 years have seen great advances in health care and medicine. For example, the use of antibiotics has saved countless lives, but antibiotics do not work on most coughs, colds and sore throats and their unnecessary use can leave the body susceptible to gut infections like Clostridium difficile." Over-use of antibiotics, which can be used only on bacterial infections, has been blamed for the rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis. The drugs can strip natural bacteria from the gut and allow C.diff to take hold and kill vulnerable elderly people. Too-liberal use of antibiotics, especially when patients do not finish their courses, allows multiplication of bugs that have mutated to become resistant. If antibiotic use is not curbed, doctors could run out of effective treatment as certain bugs become resistant to more and more drugs. Pharmaceutical companies are unwilling to invest the billions of pounds needed to research and develop new antibiotics because they are not very profitable. Dr Mark Enright, professor of molecular epidemiology at Imperial College London, said even common bacterial infections do not really need treating with antibiotics and usually go away on their own. "In the old days, before we had problems with resistance, people thought it really didn't matter - you could throw antibiotics at these cases and you would pick up the odd one that was treatable that way," he said. "I am sure there are still GPs who think they know best and think antibiotics are the global panacea we once thought they were." The most common antibiotic ingredient, amoxicillin - one of the penicillin family - has become less effective because more bugs have become resistant to it. Other common generic antibiotic ingredients that are less effective include cefaclor, used for chest infections, and trimethoprim, used to treat urinary tract infections. Prof Kevin Kerr, consultant microbiologist at Harrogate District Hospital, said the pressure on GPs to prescribe antibiotics can be immense. In some cases patients are told by one doctor in the practice that they do not need antibiotics only for them to book with another partner who is more willing to capitulate. He said: "These campaigns are desperately needed. The focus has been on cleanliness and washing hands but without closing the circle by tackling prescribing it is only half the battle." Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat health spokesman, said: "The Government has ignored the link between antibiotics and hospital infections for too long. Over-prescribing of broad-spectrum antibiotics is very dangerous." .......................................... Independent chair appointed to UK pandemic flu advisory group As death tolls across the UK soar from Virus's and Superbugs, an external chair has been appointed to the government's Scientific Advisory Group on Pandemic Influenza (SAG) as part of plans to make the group more flexible and independent. Professor Sir Gordon Duff has been announced as the new SAG chair. Professor Duff is Florey Professor of Molecular Medicine at Sheffield University, as well as being the Chair of Commission on Human Medicines and the Chair of the National Biological Standards Board. The Department of Health (DH) established the SAG to advise on the scientific evidence base for health-related pandemic influenza policies. The DH has said: "Experts around the world share the view that a global pandemic of influenza could emerge and could cause millions of deaths. It is not possible to predict when this will occur. "In the UK alone, a pandemic could affect 25-50% of the population and cause up to 750,000 deaths. It is therefore imperative that the UK has robust preparations for an influenza pandemic in place." Recruitment of an independent chair is part of the revision that the SAG is currently undergoing. In a further change, membership of the SAG is being extended to include a wider range of scientific disciplines. The revised SAG will act as an information network for the government to ensure that it is informed of important developments in pandemic influenza related sciences, which could affect government policy. The SAG will continue to include its current sub-group on systematic modeling of the impact of a pandemic and the effect of interventions. This group brings together internationally respected experts in the area who represent different modeling approaches to maximize confidence in the results. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page January 8, 2008 -------- AIDS DEATHS: South Africa's graveyard generation mourns as bodies pile up "Nowadays young people are dying like flies," reflects 27-year-old Modise Selebogo as the family of a close friend throws soil on the grave at Avalon Cemetery, Soweto's biggest burial ground. Music from another funeral not 10 feet away wafts over to intersperse with singing at this graveside, where a young male victim of the AIDS pandemic joins thousands of others below the soil. Scores of freshly covered mounds creep towards the edge of the cemetery where many heroes of South Africa's liberation struggle were buried and several dug graves lie waiting for funerals later in the day. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page December 12, 2007 -------- CHINA WARNS OF POSSIBLE WINTER, SPRING BIRD FLU OUTBREAK Chinese authorities are warning of a ‘very high’ possibility of outbreaks of bird flu over the next several months as health officials hunt for clues how a father and son became infected with the virus. Vice Agriculture Minister Yin Chengjie was quoted as saying Tuesday he is not optimistic about winter and spring months when the virus is at its most contagious. Yin said it is critical to improve methods of poultry breeding, slaughter, delivery and processing in the country. Meanwhile, Chinese health officials are trying to determine how a Chinese man from eastern Jiangsu province, whose son died from bird flu December 2, also contracted the virus. No bird flu outbreak has been reported among the province's wild birds or poultry. The case is raising concerns of possible human to human transmission. Scientists have been concerned the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus could change into a form easily passed among humans, sparking a pandemic The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page November 12, 2007 --------------Scientists Detect Deadly Fungus in US Farm Fields SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A fungus that attacks alfalfa and clover with rotting brown lesions has been detected in farm fields in New York and four other Northeastern states, say Cornell University scientists. The so-called "brown root rot" was detected in eight of 10 fields sampled in New York, six of seven fields in Vermont and five of six fields in New Hampshire, Cornell researchers reported in the October 2007 issue of the journal Plant Disease. "It appears widespread. These were arbitrarily chosen fields spread out across each state," said Gary Bergstrom, a professor of plant pathology at Cornell. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page Oct 26 -------------- UN EXPERT SAYS WORLD UNPREPARED FOR AVIAN FLU PANDEMIC Health experts are concerned that the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus will transform itself into the virus that causes the next human pandemic. David Nabarro is senior U.N. systems coordinator for avian and human influenza. He says many uncertainties surround the disease. But, what is certain, he says, is that there will be a human influenza pandemic some time in the future. He says no one knows when or where this will happen or how severe it will be. But, he says, given the potential magnitude of human suffering and of the economic consequences, it is essential to be prepared. He says most countries have some kind of pandemic preparedness plan in the works. ‘Unfortunately, only a relatively small proportion are adequately prepared to keep going in the event that the pandemic has massive absenteeism associated with it. And we need hard work for at least two or three years more to make sure that the whole world is properly pandemic ready. It is not easy. But, I will tell you one thing: being prepared for a pandemic will help countries to be prepared for other mega-catastrophes, not just those that are due to infectious disease,’ said Dr. Nabarro. The World Health Organization reports bird flu has spread to about 60 countries and territories. It says the H5N1 virus appears to be entrenched in the poultry populations of Indonesia, northern Egypt and parts of Nigeria, Bangladesh, China and Vietnam. Bird flu remains a largely animal disease. But, latest figures show about 350 people who had close contact with diseased poultry have become infected and more than 200 have died. Dr. Nabarro says health experts fear that one day H5N1 or another animal virus will mutate into a form that could spread easily from one human to another The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page September 18, 2007 ------ Arizona Woman Catches Black Plague A woman in Apache County is battling an infection of the Black plague, and state health officials are warning the public that the disease appears to be on an upward trend in the state and more cases are likely. The human case is the first reported in the state since 2000, said Craig Levy, vector borne disease program manager with the Arizona Department of Health Services. The human case follows the discovery of an outbreak of the disease in prairie dogs in Flagstaff last month, Levy said Thursday. More importantly, the distance between the cases indicate the disease has become more active in the state's higher elevations. "We know we have some plaque issues now in two north counties, which makes us think we may be getting into another one of these plague cycles, which means it may be popping up from time to time," Levy said. "What we don't want people to think is that it is just localized in two areas. The point is, plague activity can show up in any of the high areas of Arizona." The disease is confined to the state's higher elevations, generally about 4,500 feet, so the state's desert areas are not generally affected. The state has had 48 cases of human plague in the past 30 years, with 8 fatalities.
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page August 30, 2007 ----------- World 'dodged bullet' in bird flu spread - A mathematical analysis has confirmed that H5N1 avian influenza spread from person to person in Indonesia in April, US researchers reported today. They said they had developed a tool to run quick tests on disease outbreaks to see if dangerous epidemics or pandemics may be developing. Health officials around the world agree an influenza pandemic is overdue, and are most worried by the H5N1 strain of avian influenza that has been spreading through flocks from Asia to Africa. It rarely passes to humans, but since 2003 it has infected 322 people and killed 195 of them. Most have been infected directly by birds. But a few clusters of cases have been seen and officials worry most about the possibility that the virus has acquired the ability to pass easily and directly from one person to another. That would spark a pandemic. "We find statistical evidence of human-to-human transmission in Sumatra, but not in Turkey. This does not mean that no low-level human-to-human spread occurred in this outbreak, only that we lack statistical evidence of such spread." In Sumatra, one of Indonesia's islands, a 37-year-old woman appears to have infected her 10-year-old nephew, who infected his father. DNA tests confirmed that the strain the father died of was very similar to the virus found in the boy's body. It went two generations and then just stopped, but it could have gotten out of control. The world really may have dodged a bullet with that one, and the next time, we might not be so lucky." The researchers estimated the secondary-attack rate, which is the risk that one person will infect another, was 20 per cent. This is similar to what is seen for regular, seasonal influenza A in the United States.
......................................... EU OFFICIALS HOLDING TALKS WITH HAMAS EU security officials have been conducting secret talks with Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip over the past few weeks, Palestinian Authority officials told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. The PA officials did not reveal the identity of the visitors, except to say that they belonged to three EU intelligence services. The Europeans are said to have met with top Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar, as well as Ahmed Yusef, political adviser to Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. Sources close to Hamas confirmed that EU officials had visited the Gaza Strip recently for talks focusing on security-related issues. According to the sources, the Hamas leaders urged the EU representatives to work to end the boycott of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, and to pressure Israel to reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt. ‘We hope these talks will be the first step toward ending the boycott of Hamas, which came to power in a free and democratic election,’ the sources told the Post. ‘There is growing awareness among the Europeans of the fact that Hamas can't be ignored as a major player in the Palestinian arena.’ In response, Christina Gallach, spokeswoman for EU Foreign Policy chief Javier Solana, told The Jerusalem Post that she was unaware of any such meetings. On a separate note, she said that Solana was due to visit the region this weekend and would be in Jerusalem, Ramallah and Jordan. Israeli government officials contacted about this matter Tuesday night said they knew of no EU contacts with Hamas. One government official reiterated that Israel‚s position was that ‘Hamas should not be dealt with and should be kept as far away form the game as possible.’ The official added that Hamas was a terrorist organization ‘that continues to do whatever it can to impede any chance for progress.’ This is the first time Hamas has confirmed that its representatives have held secret talks with EU security officials
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