Westcountry is named as swine flu 'hot spot'
THE Westcountry is one of the country's hot spots for swine flu.
The Government's chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson yesterday revealed the "top 10" hot spots at his weekly briefing into the pandemic.
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It showed Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly had the second-highest rate of swine flu-related consultations at 34.2 per 100,000 people.
Plymouth was ninth highest at 26.7 per 100,000 people – ahead of Manchester at 26.1. Southampton topped the league with 36.5 per 100,000 people.
Health officials are still urging people to keep away from hospitals and GP surgeries if they think they have swine flu. Instead they should contact the helpline on 0800 1 513 100.
The figures were released as estimates of the number of people in the UK who could die in the pandemic were revised downwards to 19,000, from 65,000 reported in July.
Other figures showed there were an estimated 4,500 people newly diagnosed with swine flu in England in the last week.
This is a slight drop on the 5,000 cases reported in the previous week and down from a high of around 100,000 cases more than a month ago.
The number of deaths in England linked to the virus stands at 61, up from 57 last week.
A pilot study of a swine flu vaccine revealed a "strong immune response" after just one dose. The first vaccinations for at-risk groups are expected to take place in October.
4 Comments
by Freethinker, North Cornwall
Monday, September 07 2009, 1:47PM
“I certainly wouldn't take any form of vaccination. Big pharma compaines who develop vaccines have a profit driven agenda. The "pandemic" is nothing but a combination of very good marketing on the part of the drug compaines, and the fear-mongering of a bunch of lemmings, the media, who maintain their station in our society by helping to spread the the fear factor across the western world. It's often been said by those who work in big pharma, "the best way to become a millionaire? Invent the disease and market the cure".”
by pinprick, Newlyn
Monday, September 07 2009, 10:02AM
“This is a primary additive to the H1N1 vaccine that the leaders of our world today are getting ready to force inoculate us with this coming autumn.
Also this is the same additive that the American government banned from use in military vaccines.”
by Henry Purler, Exeter
Friday, September 04 2009, 12:21PM
“Squalene oil is used in vaccines
Squalene adjuvants are a key ingredient in a whole new generation of vaccines intended for mass immunization around the globe. Squalene is not just a molecule found in a knee or elbow - it is found throughout the nervous system and the brain.¿ When injected in the body, the immune system attacks it as an enemy to be eliminated. Eating and digesting squalene isn¿t a problem. But injecting it ¿galvanize(s) the immune system into attacking it, which can produce self-destructive cross reactions against the same molecule in the places where it occurs naturally in the body - and where it is critical to the health of the nervous system.¿ Once self-destruction begins, it doesn¿t stop as the body keeps making the molecule that the immune system is trained to attack and destroy,
It is a dangerous additive and should be banned.”
by Nicki Penaluna, France
Friday, September 04 2009, 11:04AM
“This strong immune response is probably because the vaccine contains 'squalene', which is added to promote a strong immune response. Injecting squalene into the body is not the natural entry for this substance. The last vaccine developed for swine 'flu contained this and was responsible for more deaths that the actual disease itself. It is also linked to Guillane Barr syndrome, which UK doctors have been warned to be on the look out for following the start of the vaccination programme. I think I'll just take my chances with the 'flu itself.”