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  • Japan: 8th A/H1N1 victim - Nurse, did not take Tamiflu

    Minister of Health announced the 8th swine flu victim in Japan, Hokkaïdo .

    Source: Twitter.

    More to follow.
    ?Addressing chronic disease is an issue of human rights ? that must be our call to arms"
    Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet

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    Re: Japan: 8th swine flu victim announced?

    Japan Acute encephalopathy pandemic flu in children

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      Re: Japan: 8th swine flu victim announced?

      HOKKAIDO (Japan)
      31Aug2009
      Source: Doshin Web (Headline accessed at 21:22 JST)
      http://www.hokkaido-np.co.jp/news/top/

      Pertinent Info:

      Female in her 40s. Pre-existing condition - high blood pressure.
      8th victim of new H1N1


      道内初のインフル患者死亡 高血圧症基礎疾患ある40代女性 (08/31 20:59)
      道は31日、新型インフルエンザに感染した宗谷管内利尻町の40代女性の死亡を確認したと発表した。新型イ ンフル患者の死者は道内初、国内で8人目。道によると、死亡した女性は高血圧症の基礎疾患があった。高血圧 症の程度を確認中という。

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        Re: Japan: 8th swine flu victim confirmed

        google translated


        in Hokkaido flu killed 8 th

        2009.8.31

        Hokkaido 31, the town was infected with pandemic influenza Rishiri announced the death of 40-something women. She died of acute heart failure. Source of infection is unknown. New cases of suspicious deaths, including the eight people in the country.

        According to the way women had chronic hypertension. Make sure that the degree of hypertension.

        38.7 days for women in 29 degree heat, seek medical attention in the city of Wakkanai. Was diagnosed as positive for simple tests, antiviral drugs, received a dose of Tamiflu.

        On this day, but stayed in the hotel, around 30 pm 2 hours, the employee found the woman lost consciousness in the state of the hotel room, was taken to hospital, was confirmed dead. The death of women, more (PCR) tests and was confirmed to a new infection.

        She lived in the town Rishiri, high fever continued for several days, seek medical attention in the city of Wakkanai.




        credits Makoto in Japan for the link
        ?Addressing chronic disease is an issue of human rights ? that must be our call to arms"
        Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet

        ~~~~ Twitter:@GertvanderHoek ~~~ GertvanderHoek@gmail.com ~~~

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          Re: Japan: 8th swine flu victim confirmed

          google translated

          It seems the diseased was a nurse who had contact with infected H1N1-patients?

          New Flu: public health nurse infected 40 year-old women died, Hokkaido

          Hokkaido 31, Wakkanai Health Center of Branch Rishiri new flu (Rishiri Town) worked at its 40 public health nurse and the woman died. Women were interviewed and engaged in pandemic influenza patients, and route of infection is unknown. The 8 th National HIV deaths. Killed the first health care workers.

          According to the road, the women had underlying disease of hypertension, hypertension is a ministry cautioned that "easy-to-severe disease" is not included. Mortality and cause-effect relationship was unclear and pandemic influenza.

          Women at 29 medical institutions in Wakkanai influenza A was diagnosed with type day. In doing so, "there is a fever for several days" before the lawsuit states. She said the hotel stayed in Wakkanai, on March 30 around 2 pm, a hotel employee found lying in a coma. Then, the doctor confirmed the death. Cause of death was acute heart failure. Road pandemic influenza infection was confirmed in 31 women at the date of inspection.

          Women 21, when an outbreak of pandemic influenza is confirmed at a public middle school in the town next to the town Rishiri Rishiri, patients had been interviewed by Ue and wearing masks. When contact with the patient protection measures are taken, following the manual way is "no question" the official said.



          Thanks to makoto_au_japon @twitter.com
          ?Addressing chronic disease is an issue of human rights ? that must be our call to arms"
          Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet

          ~~~~ Twitter:@GertvanderHoek ~~~ GertvanderHoek@gmail.com ~~~

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            Re: Japan: 8th swine flu victim confirmed

            Health ministry: up to 760,000 new swine flu cases a day by October

            Swine flu will spread at a rate of about 760,000 new cases a day once infection reaches the 20 percent mark, predicted to come at the end of next month, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry estimates.

            The ministry has instructed prefectural governments across the country to extend clinic hours at night and work out rules on accepting swine flu patients in serious condition at medical institutions.

            The prediction was made based on the spread patterns of swine and seasonal influenza in Japan and overseas. If 20 percent of people in Japan suffer from new strain of flu, the number of those who start to show symptoms of the disease will surpass 100,000 a day by the fifth week of the epidemic. Over the Aug. 17-23 period, which is believed to be the third or fourth week of the epidemic, there are believed to have been about 150,000 patients with swine flu, according to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases.

            The ministry estimates that up to 762,000 people could begin to suffer from swine flu a day when the epidemic peaks, possibly in the ninth week between late September and early October, and about 46,400 people will be hospitalized daily.

            The number of patients newly hospitalized a day is estimated to be over 10,000 between the 10 and 14th week of the epidemic. Some 38,000, or 0.15 percent of the total patients are likely to fall in serious condition.

            If the disease rate rises to 30 percent, up to 69,800 people are estimated to be hospitalized a day.

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              Re: Japan: 8th swine flu victim confirmed

              Source: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/natio...na009000c.html

              Health worker with swine flu dies in Hokkaido

              WAKKANAI, Hokkaido -- A female health worker with swine flu died over the weekend, marking the eighth death among H1N1 flu patients in Japan, the prefectural government said.

              The woman is the first healthcare worker in Japan who died after being infected with the swine flu virus. However, the causal relationship between the virus and her death remains unknown.

              The woman, a worker at a health center in Rishiri, was found lying unconscious in a hotel room in Wakkanai on Sunday afternoon. She was later pronounced dead of acute heart failure. She had been diagnosed with influenza A the day before, when she consulted a doctor over a persistent fever.

              Health authorities announced that a postmortem inspection Monday indicated the woman was infected with swine flu.

              The woman, who was in her 40s, was engaged in health consultations at a public junior high school in the neighboring town of Rishirifuji, where group infection with the H1N1 virus was confirmed on Aug. 21. During consultations, she took preventive measures against infection, said a prefectural government official.

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              • #8
                Japan : Nurse 11th flu death, without taking Tamiflu

                Edit: the nurse is not the 11th swineflu victim, but the 8th. I merged the threads. Thanks to koma_ikakene for pointing this out.

                New flu death in their 40s, without taking Tamiflu


                Infected with pandemic influenza, August 30, Rishiri Island, Hokkaido was confirmed dead a day is 40-year-old woman in a public health nurse, it did not take the Tamiflu antiviral drug was prescribed from the medical, A survey of the road track.


                Worsening of symptoms was not used for Tamiflu, there is a possibility of acute heart failure caused the way the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (Tokyo) to ask, such as information about the presence of pathogenic mutations of the virus and collected investigate.

                According to the road, a public health nurse, at 4:00 pm Last month 29 medical institutions in Wakkanai flu ahead to stay at around A-type infection was confirmed, Tamiflu was prescribed. After that, stayed in hotels, are found dead in a room in the afternoon the next day. Was found that the room is unused Tamiflu.

                Roads, health and safety laboratory is "taking Tamiflu is effective in early treatment of pandemic influenza, not sure why you did not use a public health nurse in health care workers" and that. The public health nurse, was diagnosed with hypertension and regular medical examinations at the workplace, in the same room is still investigating the death of relevance.



                Thanks to Makoto_au_Japon
                ?Addressing chronic disease is an issue of human rights ? that must be our call to arms"
                Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet

                ~~~~ Twitter:@GertvanderHoek ~~~ GertvanderHoek@gmail.com ~~~

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