FLU VIRUS SPREAD IN
CHICAGO & MYSTERIOUS VIRUSES DECIMATE SEA LIFE IN THE WEST COAST
H1N1 FLU STRIKES ILLINOIS Saturday,
December 28, 2013 http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local/illinois&id=9373710
In Chicago, hospitals are reporting an increase in emergency room visit from people with flu-like symptoms… "It's been very quiet, very much in the background," Paul Schreckenberger, microbiologist, said of the strain. "Then all of the sudden this year, starting last week, we've had a big upsurge of the 2009 pandemic strain."
While doctors say the number of people infected is expected to climb, they also say people should not panic and this year's flu vaccine includes immunizations for the different H1N1 strains. "We can't just think of the very young and very old as the only ones who need the vaccine. Really, everyone should be vaccinated," Schreckenberger said.
Symptoms of the H1N1 strain are similar to that of the season flu. They include: high temperatures and fatigue; aches and pains; headache, runny nose and sore throat; and vomiting and diarrhea.
In 2009, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide died of the strain.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved.
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http://www.washingtonsblog.com/ December 30, 2013
We’ve previous documented that seals, sea lions, polar bears, sea stars, turtles, sockeye
salmon, herring, anchovies and sardines on the West Coast of North
America are all suffering mysterious diseases … which are killing many.
We’ve asked whether this is related to
massive releases of radiation
from Fukushima. Update. Sadly,
we can now add other wildlife to the list.
EneNews reports:
Los Angeles
Times, Dec. 29, 2013: Bald eagles are dying in Utah — 20 in the past
few weeks alone — and nobody can figure out why. [...] Many suffered from
seizures, head tremors and paralysis [...] Many of the eagles were brought to
the mammoth Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah [...] Within 48
hours, most were dead. [...] State wildlife specialists are baffled. For weeks,
officials have sent birds for necropsies [...] At first, the agency’s disease
scientists guessed the illness could be encephalitis, which is caused by the
West Nile virus, but later ruled out that possibility. [...] Officials suggest
the die-off is possibly connected to the deaths of thousands of eared grebes that
began in Utah in November. [...] Officials still don’t know why the shore birds
became sick. [...] Officials at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center have
their own theories. Some point to radiation from Japan after the 2011
meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. [...] A call from
Idaho shed new light: A wildlife official said bald eagles there were also
getting sick, suggesting the birds were arriving in Utah already in bad health.
Buz Marthaler,
Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah co-founder: “It’s just hard to
have your national bird in your arms, going through seizures in a way it can’t
control — when you can see it’s pain but don’t know what’s happening to it. As
a human being, you just have problems with that. And when you lose one, it just
grabs your heart. [...] In an average year, we might get one or two, but we’ve
received nine so far, and five of those have died. The other four are still in
our care. [...] We aren’t ruling out anything.”
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Washington
Post, Dec. 30, 2013: [...] “This is really concerning to us,” says
[Leslie McFarlane, the wildlife disease program coordinator for the state’s
Division of Wildlife Resources]. She has been program coordinator for 10 years
and describes the recent deaths as “very unusual.” [...] The symptoms noted in
the recent spate of deaths—and the broad geographical area in which they have
cropped up—are what has officials concerned.
Unfortunately, the American and
Japanese governments are doing
everything they can to cover up the severity of the Fukushima
disaster. Indeed, anytime government or big corporations screw up, the
government works to cover it up … instead of actually fixing
the problem. And see this.
Posted on December 31, 2013 by WashingtonsBlog
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Business vs. Health. If is true that the outbreak of recent flu epidemic in Chicago was known by the authorities one week before Christmas (two mothers called the local press to report flu in two schools and alarmed the possible speeding of this sickness) then is easy to conclude that the intention of local authorities to cover up these cases was the avoid business disruption. It is true: many people (students included) were traveling to Chicago and in Chicago local places like malls and shopping centers, restaurants, cinemas, public buses, etc would have been avoided to prevent the risk of getting flu. They didn't want to alarm people and cause business loses. The day 26 most emergency hospitals were full of flu patients. The day 27 Washington Post published and article on this matter, then the local media released info on this case. Now who is going to paid for the billing to those patients who has not insurance or a minimum one that doesn't cover the full treatment beyond the flu vaccine and will receive bills in their mailbox?. The health system is a nasty business in the US and the hospitals will bill the victim for this fault. What about creating a special tax on major business to cover such expenses?
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