BIGGEST NEWS: Over 100,000 H1N1 Cases in S'pore???

[ahleebabasingaporethief]

Just overheard from 'doctors' (i think) in next table of my fav bak kut teh place at Binjai.

Anyone can concur this is true?

Si liao lah...close to 60% of ANYONE with flu symptons is definitely H1N1. CCB....peaseants taking bus and MRT sure up the lorry liao.

 

[Leongsam]

It's a pretty harmless infection for most people. Don't worry about it.

 

[cooleo]

It's a pretty harmless infection for most people. Don't worry about it.

5th H1N1-related death in Singapore
By Pearl Forss, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 27 July 2009 2138 hrs

5th H1N1-related death in Singapore

SINGAPORE: Influenza A(H1N1)-related fatalities in Singapore rose to five when a woman, who also had acute myeloid leukaemia, died on Monday.

The 34-year-old Chinese woman was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital on July 17 after two days of cough. She was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on July 19 because of low oxygen saturation.

She passed away on Monday morning and the cause of death is pneumonia, with Influenza A (H1N1) infection as a contributing factor, said a Ministry of Health statement.

Meanwhile, four more H1N1 patients were admitted into ICU.

One of them was a 9-year-old Chinese girl who had been warded in the National University Hospital (NUH) since June for treatment of encephalitis. She has a history of cerebral palsy, quadriplegia and hypothyroidism.

She was transferred to the Pediatric ICU on July 25 for respiratory distress. Laboratory tests confirmed she has Influenza A (H1N1). She is on ventilator support and her condition is stable.

The second case was a 23-year-old Malay man who had a history of epileptic fits. He developed high fever, drowsiness and seizures on July 25, and was admitted directly from the Emergency Department to the ICU on July 26. Laboratory tests confirmed he has Influenza A (H1N1). His condition is stable.

The third patient was a 29-year-old Indian woman with no previous medical history. She sought treatment at Changi General Hospital (CGH) Emergency Department on July 25 after two days of fever, cough and chest discomfort.

She was admitted to the ICU on July 26. Laboratory tests confirmed she has Influenza A(H1N1). She is on ventilator support and her condition is stable.

The fourth patient admitted into ICU was a 34-year-old Chinese man with a history of Down's syndrome. He sought treatment at CGH's Emergency Department on July 23 after two weeks of cough, sore throat and fever.

He developed bilateral pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome, and was transferred to the ICU on July 26. Laboratory tests confirmed he has Influenza A(H1N1). He is on ventilator support and is on the dangerously ill list.

The executive director of the Genome Institute of Singapore, Professor Edison Liu, said fatalities are likely to increase as the flu cycle continues. But it would make no sense to invest in H1N1 vaccine research in Singapore because pharmaceutical companies have almost developed one.

He said: "It makes no sense for us to invest in vaccine research here in Singapore because a vaccine is almost ready in the next few months. That will be a complete waste of money to try and do that. There is an existing process in generating a flu vaccine, the machine is already initiated and we will get some vaccines.

"Having said that, a very important part of what we need to do is to examine whether the vaccines work in all people, because this will give us significant clues on who to vaccinate, how we should vaccinate, what is the optimum vaccination protocol."

 

[Leongsam]

Most of the deaths from H1N1 have been the result of complications caused by pre existing conditions. As I have said earlier, don't worry about H1N1. You're more likely to die on the roads.

To put things into perspective, seasonal flu (non H1N1) has caused 13,000 deaths this year (Jan to Apr 09) in the US alone.

All infections can be fatal. Many have died as a result of blood poisoning from what started off as simple cut on the finger. Deaths have also been caused by slipping on wet bathroom floor, falling out of a window, allergy from a bee sting, heart attack from the stress of a football match etc etc.

Just go about your life as you normally would. Paranoia never helps anyone.

 

[tiuroyston46asshole]

Most of the deaths from H1N1 have been the result of complications caused by pre existing conditions. As I have said earlier, don't worry about H1N1. You're more likely to die on the roads.

To put things into perspective, seasonal flu (non H1N1) has caused 13,000 deaths this year (Jan to Apr 09) in the US alone.

All infections can be fatal. Many have died as a result of blood poisoning from what started off as simple cut on the finger. Deaths have also been caused by slipping on wet bathroom floor, falling out of a window, allergy from a bee sting, heart attack from the stress of a football match etc etc.

Just go about your life as you normally would. Paranoia never helps anyone.

Yeah lor, lots of assholes assed by pape also still alive to cowpeh cowbu here....why worry about H1N1 leh.....

 

[Goh Meng Seng]

Just overheard from 'doctors' (i think) in next table of my fav bak kut teh place at Binjai.

Anyone can concur this is true?

Si liao lah...close to 60% of ANYONE with flu symptons is definitely H1N1. CCB....peaseants taking bus and MRT sure up the lorry liao.

100K is most probably an exaggeration. By simple calculation of having 300 cases per day on average, within a month, there will be about 9K. Along with the previous 1K, it could well be 10K.

Goh Meng Seng

 

[pia]

for every reported case, probably 10 others have been infected, acquired immunity and shrugged it off as another common flu strain.

 

[commoner]

media is more scary than H1N1,,,,

those will pre-existing illness/weak immune must be very careful,,, other than that, most cases are quite mild,,,,

common flu in USA,,, 1 day 100 die (no need pre-existing cases also die hor),,,, so what,,,, muted no report on that all,,,,

IF H1N1 mutated to higher mortality rate, then whatelse can you do? no where you can escape,,,, so at the moment take good care of health, strong in body and mind, boost the natural immune in you and if you still die,,,, then no choice, your time is up,,,

 

[cheng ho]

Guys, it's only around 1000+. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic_in_Singapore

If everyone have good personal hygiene, avoid affected areas & see doctor when unwell, thing won't get too bad rite? My wish anw.

 

[Goh Meng Seng]

Guys, it's only around 1000+. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic_in_Singapore

If everyone have good personal hygiene, avoid affected areas & see doctor when unwell, thing won't get too bad rite? My wish anw.

It is already well pass 1000 before they decided not to report on total number of cases. i.e. it is definitely more than 1K.

Goh Meng Seng

 

[besotted]

Actually 100,000 not surprising

Now flu season, assuming 5% or 5 out of 100 gets flu.

Singapore's population is close to 5 million. 5% is 250,000

H1N1 accounts for more than half of cases, i.e. more than 125,000