I find several things interesting and disconcerting about the below news article.First, the cluster of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu is all in the same state.
Second, the latest four victims were all patients in the same hospital.
Third, they were all hospitalized for reasons other than the flu, which is to say, they caught the flu in the hospital.
And fourth, they were all given Tamiflu, and three out of four of them died.
Considering reports coming in from other countries of Tamiflu's toxicity, which in a number of cases has led to patient deaths (see here, and here), couldn't it have been the Tamiflu that killed these latest victims?
Might not the growing news reports of "Tamiflu-resistant swine flu" be exaggerated cover-ups for the simple fact that Tamiflu is still killing people, particularly when it is adminstered to people who are already sick with other illnesses?
I don't know about you, but I think I'll do my darndest to stay out of hospitals, and stick with my high-dose Vitamin C, a good probiotic supplement, plenty of Vitamin D3, and of course my favorite all-natural antiviral supplement, colloidal silver. See http://www.colloidalsilverkillsviruses.com/
-- Spencer
Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer Mike Stobbe, Ap Medical Writer
ATLANTA – Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday.
The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up the biggest cluster seen so far in the U.S.
Tamiflu — made by Switzerland's Roche Group — is one of two flu medicines that help against swine flu, and health officials have been closely watching for signs that the virus is mutating, making the drugs ineffective.
More than 50 resistant cases have been reported in the world since April, including 21 in the U.S. Almost all in the U.S. were isolated, said officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The BBC reported another cluster of five Tamiflu-resistant cases this week in Wales, in the United Kingdom.
The CDC has sent three disease investigators to North Carolina to help in the investigation there, said Dave Daigle, a CDC spokesman. CDC testing confirmed the Tamiflu-resistant cases.
All four cases at the hospital were very ill patients in an isolated cancer unit on the hospital's ninth floor, and it is believed they all caught the flu while at the hospital, said Dr. Daniel Sexton, professor of medicine and director of the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network.
Three of the four patients died and one is recovering, he said. Flu seems to have been a factor in each death, but they were very sick so it was hard to say that it was the primary cause, he added.
North Carolina health officials did not disclose details about the four patients, other than that three of them — including the survivor — were women and their flu illnesses occurred last month and this month.
The first patient had been given Tamiflu before becoming ill with the virus, as a preventive measure. The three others were given Tamiflu after developing flu symptoms, Sexton said.
The case is under investigation, but hospital officials said they have no evidence the cases represent a hospital-wide concern.
The North Carolina cluster is unusual, but "at this time we don't have any information that should raise concerns for the general population," said Dr. Alicia Frye, epidemiologist in the CDC's flu division, in a prepared statement.
The only other reported U.S. instance of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu spreading from one person to another occurred about four months ago at a summer camp in western North Carolina, where two teenage girls — cabin mates — were diagnosed with the same drug-resistant strain. Health officials said at the time that the virus may have spread from one girl to the other, or it's possible that the girls got it from another camper.
Why did both Tamiflu-resistant clusters occur in North Carolina? It could be coincidence, or perhaps North Carolina's disease surveillance is unusually good, said Megan Davies, the state's epidemiologist.
Overall, CDC officials said Friday that swine flu cases appear to be declining throughout most of the U.S., with reports of swine flu illnesses widespread in 43 states last week, down from 46 the week before.
CDC officials also said reports have been increasing in a few states, including Maine and Hawaii. They said it's hard to know whether the epidemic has peaked or not.
Thanksgiving and the holidays may not help matters, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, who heads the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
"All the kids get together with their grandparents and there's a lot of exchange of warmth and love, but a little exchange of viruses, too," she said.
Swine flu has sickened an estimated 22 million Americans, hospitalized about 98,000 and killed 4,000 since it was first identified last April. It has proved to be similar to seasonal flu but a much bigger threat to children and young adults.
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Gotta agree with ya, Spencer. I think they're rushing out batches of every drug and vaccine imageinable, and not really doing much quality control. People are getting awfully sick from the vaccines, too. My housecleaner works part-time in the medical field and was forced to take the vaccine because of her contact with patients. She immediately became sick from the vaccine. Even six weeks later she was still weak from it. It caused her to suffer from a horrible fatigue that wouldn't leave. Then, to add insult to injury, after she was finally feeling a little bit better, she got the darned flu on top of it.
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