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Many people suffering from swine influenza, even those who are severely ill, do not have fever, an odd feature of the new virus that could increase the difficulty of controlling the epidemic, said a leading American infectious-disease expert who examined cases in Mexico last week.
Fever is a hallmark of influenza, often rising abruptly to 104 degrees at the onset of illness. Because many infectious-disease experts consider fever the most important sign of the disease, the presence of fever is a critical part of screening patients.
But about a third of the patients at two hospitals in Mexico City where the American expert, Dr. Richard P. Wenzel, consulted for four days last week had no fever when screened, he said.
“It surprised me and my Mexican colleagues, because the textbooks say that in an influenza outbreak the predictive value of fever and cough is 90 percent,” said Dr. Wenzel. While many people with severe cases went on to develop fever after they were admitted, about half of the milder cases did not; nearly all patients had coughing and malaise…
RTFA. Understand there will likely be a second wave of the Mexican Flu this autumn. Dunces who didn’t get sick the first time around will presume their God is protecting them and do nothing preventative.
Most folks haven’t realized we have more cases of this flu in the United States, now – than in Mexico.
I was in Mexico a couple of years ago and had the complementary illness. Fever of 104, no other symptoms, and the whole thing over in 24 hours. I’m still alive, so it was “over” in a good way. Back in Canada, my family doctor was mystified. Oh well, another among those tropical diseases that don’t get studied.
The new fast flu is healthier and more convenient. You can have it with or without the fever, cough, no cough, on whole wheat or white… hold the malaise.
“Many Mexican Flu cases were missing an early warning – no fever!”
uhm this doenst make sense…
so the early warning sign that was missing is no fever, and since the no fever was missing , that means they had fever?
Author!!!! Author!!!
quick Dvak-man…. to the editing mobile!!!
One sentence in the full article says:
“Dr. Wenzel said that an unusual feature of the Mexican epidemic, which complicates the understanding of it, was that “in recent months five different influenza viruses have been circulating in Mexico simultaneously.””
That’s interesting — aren’t there fragments from five different known flu strains in this new one’s RNA? Have these five strains been analyzed/sequenced? When a virus particle enters a cell, its parts disperse and the RNA strands get replicated by the cell’s own machinery, and some of them get expressed into proteins that build the virus’s protective shell. All these components ramble around in the cell until they meet up and fit together to make a new virus. If the host has two or more strains at the same time, these components can easily mix and match. This is one way new variants can quickly appear.
Frankly, I find this scenario more likely than intentional manufacturing in a lab.
Aparantly (brain citation needed) all deaths are based on a secondary infection and not teh actual flu it-slef which only has flu like symptoms that cant kill you.
And tamiflu is responsible for more deaths on its own than the overhyped flu it is supposed to protect against.
Stop panicking people, eat healthy, exercise, don’t stress and get on with your lives, there have been previous case (1917 and 77 maybe?) of this same flu and it really isn’t that big a deal, malaria and obesity kill more people every year comparatively.
I’ve got a great idea. JCD should take back primary control of this blog.
Eideard should go start his own, eideard.org/blog, so that I can not read it, and therefore won’t be subjected to the moronic “analysis” that accompanies his posts, in amongst the otherwise worthwile posts here.