Teenager Kept Alive With a Bicycle and Washing Machine: "Ji Xiaoyan, 15, was taken off her ventilator and discharged from hospital in China as her family could no longer afford to pay her medical bills...
... Not to be deterred, however, her family made her a makeshift ventilator from bicycle and washing machine parts, driven by a noisy electric motor. The contraption pumped air into the teenager's lungs through a washer hose plugged into an incision in her throat for more than a month, until the family got donations for treatment..."
H1N1 Flu Strain Found in Canadian Turkey Flock - H1N1 - FOXNews.com: "Turkeys in the Canadian province of Ontario have become infected with the H1N1 flu virus, but no birds or eggs from the farm entered the food supply, provincial government officials said on Tuesday."
Pandemic Influenza H1N1 Genetic Acquisitions: 2009-12: "... The depth of this background continues to increase with 2 TamiFlu Resistant strains reported in 2 days. The persistance of this cross segment correlation may signal a viral genetic acquisition response to widespread TamiFlu usage. These silent polymorphisms are suggestive of an intermediate stage that is moving in the direction of antiviral resistance and continued Receptor Binding Domain revisions due to antiviral blanketing."
Are you ready for the dog and cat flu? / Rapidly mutating influenza viruses threaten family pets: "Just in case you weren't panicking enough over the swine flu, it turns out that the virus that causes it, H1N1, can make dogs, cats and ferrets sick, too.
H1N1 got its nickname, the swine flu, due to its origin in pigs, but it's really a genetic mashup of human, swine and bird viruses. Because it can cause serious illness and even death in susceptible humans, particularly infants and pregnant women, veterinarians greeted the recent news that it could affect family pets with alarm..."
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