Flu Study Shows No Strange Mutation Caused 1918 Pandemic - Maggie Fox - NationalJournal.com

Flu Study Shows No Strange Mutation Caused 1918 Pandemic - Maggie Fox - NationalJournal.com

In 1918 the flu killed 50 million people across the globe. Very interesting, so basically it can happen again with no mutation. Ok definitely I'm going to see Contagion this week.

Current Ukraine Flu outbreak (Update 2)

New numbers from the flu outbreak in Ukraine

Total infections:478,456
Total hospitalizations:24,003
Total deaths:81

Click here for the latest numbers.

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Recombinomics Info

Recombinomics Commentary 14:34
November 4, 2009

478,456 Influenza/ARI
24,003 Hospitalized
60 Ventilators
81 Deaths


Reported Cases in Ukraine Double in Two Days

From 255,000 to 478,000 in just two days? Wao! It's really spreading fast.

Ukraine Says 67 People Die From Unspecified Flu Virus (Update1)

By Kateryna Choursina and Halia Pavliva

Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- At least 67 people have died in an epidemic of flu in Ukraine that has infected 255,000, the country’s first deputy health minister Vasyl Lazoryshynets said.
A total of 15,000 people are being treated at hospitals, Lazoryshynets said at a press conference in Kiev today. The country has sent suspected swine flu samples to the U.K. for testing, he said, declining to say when results are expected.

Read the full article here.

This is all in less than two weeks. 255,000 people sick with the flu. 15,000 in hospitals.
Some parts of the country are in quarantine and schools are close for at least three weeks. A couple of days ago only 30 people were dead now it's 67 and this virus has not been confirmed to be H1N1 virus. Let just hope it has not mutated into something more deadly.

Unknown Influenza Kills Seven In Ukraine

Unknown Influenza Kills Seven In Ukraine
October 28, 2009

TERNOPIL, Ukraine -- Seven people in the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil have died from an unknown flu virus, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.

Bohdan Oniskiv, the chief of the health department in Ternopil Oblast, told journalists on October 27 that none of the flu victims had other health problems.

About 6,000 people were referred to medical centers and clinics with flu symptoms last week. 

Radio Free Europe

Could this be a new strain of H1N1?

Swine flu

Why is the world goverments so worried about this flu? Regular flu kills thousands of more people.

"CDC estimated that about 36,000 people died of flu-related causes each year, on average, during the 1990s in the United States. This figure includes people dying from complications of flu. During these years, the number of estimated deaths ranged from 17,000 to 52,000."

So far H1N1 has killed 3917 people worldwide. Is there something they are not telling us?