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TORONTO — Ontario health officials say the province's first fatal swine flu case had an unspecified chronic medical condition and died rapidly.
Cannada is second to Mexico with the number of cases
http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090525/090525_swineflu/20090525/?hub=CP24Home
Cannada is second to Mexico with the number of cases
http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090525/090525_swineflu/20090525/?hub=CP24Home
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/28/regular.flu/
According to the link above "regular" flu kills about 36,000 in the United States annually year after year.
There may be a worldwide pandemic sometime but this outbreak of the swine flu is not showing that potential.
Willy
According to the link above "regular" flu kills about 36,000 in the United States annually year after year.
There may be a worldwide pandemic sometime but this outbreak of the swine flu is not showing that potential.
Willy
Was watching Fox news yesterday and their news Investigators linked the H1N1 strain to a Smitthville Swine feeding plant in Mexico. I mistakenly thought Smitthville hams came from the United States. Turns out the Company moved itself to Mexico to avoid paying their American employees a fair wage and to avoid higher health standards and treatment of the animals. The same media source stated that we cannot contract the virus from eating pork products and Smitthville has gone on the record to say not a single one of their workers have presented ill with the swine flu. Last week I went to my Pulmonologist wearing a mask and armed with hand cleaner and my Pulmonologist said: take that mask off it does not work. I asked her why then do surgeons wear masks in the operating rooms and she countered with they do not wear the masks anymore they wear face shields. I countered with well my anastheiologist was wearing a cloth face mask last month when I had my gall bladder removed and she said do what you like; wear it or don't wear it, I don't care. All I know is everytime I go to my PCPs office I end up getting a cold that usually leads to bronchitis or worse and I figured a Pulmonolgists office would be a more likely place to catch some upper respiratory infection. I carry around a small bottle of hand steirilizer and use it whenever I go to the grocery store and this morning I read the ingredients: Alcohol 60%, fragrance etc. and then: Made In China. I also notice nurses going from one patient to the next W/O washing their hands or changing their gloves-these are not sterile techniques and in my PCPs waiting room there are signs posted telling welcoming us to remind the nurses and staff to wash their hands. I did this and my monthly Vitamin B-12 shot was particularly painful that morning. Gee I wonder why? What do you think Trinity4-Bizarre thinking?
Willy, I was wondering how many people died from the flu, the flu of any kind, per year. Thanks for letting me not look it up. I figured the numbers would be high. The swine flue has not touched those numbers which is what I figured.........Although the year is not yet halfway over.
Frank, I watch like a hawk for the hand washing & glove changing and won't hesitate to point it out. The mask...........I don't wear one
Denise
Frank, I watch like a hawk for the hand washing & glove changing and won't hesitate to point it out. The mask...........I don't wear one
Denise
More people die from doctors making mistakes on patients..like scripting wrong drugs...leaving instruments inside of patients are common...just hope i dont find a bed pan under my spleen
Legal drugs kill more people than all the illegal ones combined....booze and tobaco are the real killers...and dont forget the painkillers and benzos
It's hardly news that medical professionals make mistakes--even dumb, deadly mistakes. What's shocking is how often it happens. Depending on which statistics you believe, the number of Americans killed by medical screw-ups is somewhere between 44,000 and 98,000 every year--the eighth leading cause of death even by the more conservative figure, ahead of car crashes, breast cancer and AIDS.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,35499,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,35499,00.html
That was from Dec 4, 1999. Just imagine how much worse it is now!
From the article:
"....Given the prevailing mood in Congress--which seems to be allergic to anything that expands the size and power of government--creating a new agency might be tough. But the Institute of Medicine has powerful logic on its side. Air travel in the U.S. is extraordinarily safe, thanks largely to the National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA...."
And here's a more recent study and indeed it does look worse.
"The HealthGrades study finds nearly double the number of deaths from medical errors found by the 1999 IOM report "To Err is Human," with an associated cost of more than $6 billion per year. Whereas the IOM study extrapolated national findings based on data from three states, and the Zhan and Miller study looked at 7.5 million patient records from 28 states over one year, HealthGrades looked at three years of Medicare data in all 50 states and D.C. This Medicare population represented approximately 45 percent of all hospital admissions (excluding obstetric patients) in the U.S. from 2000 to 2002.
"The HealthGrades study shows that the IOM report may have underestimated the number of deaths due to medical errors, and, moreover, that there is little evidence that patient safety has improved in the last five years," said Dr. Samantha Collier, HealthGrades' vice president of medical affairs. "The equivalent of 390 jumbo jets full of people are dying each year due to likely preventable, in-hospital medical errors, making this one of the leading killers in the U.S."
Mike
From the article:
"....Given the prevailing mood in Congress--which seems to be allergic to anything that expands the size and power of government--creating a new agency might be tough. But the Institute of Medicine has powerful logic on its side. Air travel in the U.S. is extraordinarily safe, thanks largely to the National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA...."
And here's a more recent study and indeed it does look worse.
"The HealthGrades study finds nearly double the number of deaths from medical errors found by the 1999 IOM report "To Err is Human," with an associated cost of more than $6 billion per year. Whereas the IOM study extrapolated national findings based on data from three states, and the Zhan and Miller study looked at 7.5 million patient records from 28 states over one year, HealthGrades looked at three years of Medicare data in all 50 states and D.C. This Medicare population represented approximately 45 percent of all hospital admissions (excluding obstetric patients) in the U.S. from 2000 to 2002.
"The HealthGrades study shows that the IOM report may have underestimated the number of deaths due to medical errors, and, moreover, that there is little evidence that patient safety has improved in the last five years," said Dr. Samantha Collier, HealthGrades' vice president of medical affairs. "The equivalent of 390 jumbo jets full of people are dying each year due to likely preventable, in-hospital medical errors, making this one of the leading killers in the U.S."
Mike
Now you know why the legal drugs are classified as "controlled subtances"
THEY HAVE CONTROL alright...over the cash
THEY HAVE CONTROL alright...over the cash
85% OF all cocaine is used by the upper class...the other 15% are the homeless crackheads
In canada,if you are addicted to crack and homeless...its now classifed as a mental heath issue and you get more money from welfare as you are now considered disabled ..
this is FACT
this is FACT
You can even get a card proving you are a crackhead and have metal issues ...and you may carry your pipes and stuff on you....if you think this is no fact...google it
An employer refuses to promote a particular employee because of the perception that the employee has an alcohol dependency. As a result of this perception and consequent action on the part of the employer, the individual's right to equal treatment under the Code may have been infringed.
a.An individual who has had a drug or alcohol dependency in the past, but who no longer suffers from an ongoing disability, is still protected by the Code.
http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/resources/Policies/PolicyDrugAlch?page=PolicyDrugAlch-DRUG.html
a.An individual who has had a drug or alcohol dependency in the past, but who no longer suffers from an ongoing disability, is still protected by the Code.
http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/resources/Policies/PolicyDrugAlch?page=PolicyDrugAlch-DRUG.html
"Turns out the Company moved itself to Mexico to avoid paying their American employees a fair wage and to avoid higher health standards and treatment of the animals. "
That must have been one massive 'pig drive'. Reminiscent of the wild west days and cattle drives handled by the cowboys of the day. So, are the drivers of the herds knows as pigboys?
That must have been one massive 'pig drive'. Reminiscent of the wild west days and cattle drives handled by the cowboys of the day. So, are the drivers of the herds knows as pigboys?
I think they might be called ham-rods - I know, it's weak. I did like yours though FLGuy.
Mike
Mike
I am totally turned off from pig meat...after the pig farmer in canada fed 50 hookers to the pigs and now the swine flu?....PIGS ARE PIGS
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