Healthy Woman Dies Of Swine Flu

[Skatman]

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/48007842.html

MILWAUKEE- 48-year old Barbara Davis was healthy just a week ago. She had dinner with her mother Josephine last Friday night. But just hours after that dinner, Josephine got a phone call.

?My friend, he called me and told me Barbara was real sick. And I said, ?Well, she wasn?t sick when I left, so what?s the matter?? Josephine Davis said.

Barbara told her mother that she was ok. But the next day, things got worse. She had trouble breathing, and she was shaking. She could barely walk into the hospital.

?She tried to talk to people, but she just couldn?t talk,? Josephine Davis said.

Doctors treated her for two days, but they couldn?t save her. They believe she died from swine flu.

?They?ve never seen nothing like that, what she had. That infection just went through her body, attacking her kidney, her lungs, her liver. Everything,? said Josephine Davis.

Barbara was a mother of two, and to Josephine, she was more than a daughter. She was a best friend.

?I don?t know how I can take this,? Josephine said.

The Milwaukee Health Department confirmed on Friday a Milwaukee adult with no underlying medical conditions died from swine flu, though they haven?t confirmed Barbara Davis is that victim. Barbara?s family knows all too well how serious swine flu can be.

?Everybody is just in a shock. The people that I talked to today, they are frightened. Because it happened all of a sudden,? Josephine Davis said.

More than 1,800 people have caught swine flu in Milwaukee alone. The city?s health department is stressing that if you are mildly ill with flu symptoms, you should call your doctor. If your symptoms are serious or if you have mild symptoms that are getting worse, you should see a doctor right away.

[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Healthy Woman Dies Of Swine Flu

I sure hope they obtain a sample and publish sequences. These oddly severe cases might have mutations. She might also have had an unknown underlying condition, like developing cancer.

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[Snicklefritz]

Re: Healthy Woman Dies Of Swine Flu

It would be important to know if the virus did attack multiple organs. That seems a quantum jump from viral pneumonia.

[Shiloh]

Re: Healthy Woman Dies Of Swine Flu

Source: http://www.wisn.com/health/19751526/detail.html

More Information On Second H1N1 Death Released
Victim Had No 'Underlying Medical Conditions'

POSTED: 5:03 pm CDT June 14, 2009
UPDATED: 5:19 pm CDT June 14, 2009

MILWAUKEE -- More information is available in Milwaukee's second H1N1 flu death.

The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner said 48-year-old Barbara Davis died Thursday in the ICU after being diagnosed with the flu strain.

The health department said, unlike Milwaukee's first swine flu victim, Davis did not have any ?underlying medical conditions? that would have put her at a greater risk for the disease.

So far, there have been 1,883 confirmed cases of H1N1 flu in Milwaukee. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is reporting 2,071 cases in Wisconsin ? more than any other state.

[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Healthy Woman Dies Of Swine Flu

It would be important to know if the virus did attack multiple organs. That seems a quantum jump from viral pneumonia.

Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2000 Jan 30;120(3):312-4.

[Fulminant influenza pneumonia]

[Article in Norwegian]

Berdal JE, Smith-Erichsen N.

Medisinsk avdeling, Sentralsykehuset i Akershus, Nordbyhagen.

Severe community acquired pneumonia is a common cause of acute respiratory failure requiring ventilator support. Bacteria are by far the most common pathogens, necessitating initial coverage with antibacterial agents.

When influenza virus is involved in the aetiology of severe pneumonia, its role in the pathogenesis is most often that of facilitating secondary bacterial pneumonia. The influenza virus itself can, however, cause a severe and rapidly evolving viral pneumonia. We describe two cases of fulminant pneumonia with multiorgan failure, in which extensive microbiologic and serologic diagnostic test did not reveal other causes for the pneumonia than influenza virus. Different clinical lung manifestations of influenza are discussed. Influenza must be considered as an aetiologic possibility in acute respiratory failure.

PMID: 10827519 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10827519?dopt=Abstract

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[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Healthy Woman Dies Of Swine Flu

Encephalitis and encephalopathy associated with an influenza epidemic in Japan.
- Morishima T - Clin Infect Dis - 1-SEP-2002; 35(5): 512-7 (MEDLINE is the source for the citation and abstract of this record )


Abstract:

During the winter of 1998-1999, there was an outbreak of encephalitis/encephalopathy in Japan that appeared to be associated with influenza. We conducted a national survey of the prevalence and clinical features of disease and the associated outcomes and prognostic factors related to this outbreak. A total of 202 cases were analyzed, of which 148 were diagnosed as influenza-associated encephalitis/encephalopathy on the basis of virologic analysis. Of the 148 cases studied, 130 (87.8%) were type A influenza and 17 were type B. Encephalitis/encephalopathy developed mainly in children age <5 years, either on the day that influenza signs appeared or on the next day. The major signs included altered consciousness or loss of consciousness, convulsions, cough, and vomiting. In many patients, multiple-organ failure developed, and rates of mortality (31.8%) and disability (27.7%) were high. Thrombocytopenia and severely elevated transaminase levels were factors associated with a poor prognosis.

Thus, influenza-associated encephalitis/encephalopathy progressed rapidly and was associated with poor outcomes.Citation:

Encephalitis and encephalopathy associated with an influenza epidemic in Japan.
Morishima T - Clin Infect Dis - 1-SEP-2002; 35(5): 512-7
MEDLINE is the source for the citation and abstract of this record


NLM Citation ID:
12173123 (PubMed ID)

Full Source Title:
Clinical Infectious Diseases

Publication Type:
Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Language:
English

Author Affiliation:
Department of Health Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Nagoya 461-0047, Japan. morishim@met.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Authors:
Morishima T; Togashi T; Yokota S; Okuno Y; Miyazaki C; Tashiro M; Okabe N
Collaborative Study Group on Influenza-Associated Encephalopathy in Japan

http://www.mdconsult.com/das/citation/body/143372679-2/jorg=journal&source=MI&sp=12510893&sid=0/N/12510893/1.html?issn=

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The sources I found for this influenza-caused encephalitis/encephalopathy and multi-organ failure were all pediatric cases, so I don't know if it applies here.

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[the doctor]

Re: Healthy Woman Dies Of Swine Flu

Paraphrasing this case based upon the interview with the decedent's mother Josephine Davis. The mothers comments are in quotes.

Barbara Davis was a healthy 48 y/o AA female who was well when she dined with her mother Josephine on the evening of either 5Jun2009 or 12Jun2009. After returning home from the dinner Barbara became very ill according to a friend of her mothers. On the phone Barbara told her mother that she was ok. But the next day, things got worse. "She had trouble breathing, and she was shaking. She could barely walk into the hospital." She was so short of breath she could hardly speak. "She was treated in the hospital for two days, but they couldn?t save her. The doctors believe she died from swine flu." The doctors told Josephine that ?They?ve never seen nothing like that, what she had. That infection just went through her body, attacking her kidney, her lungs, her liver. Everything"

In this instance, the decedent is described as having fulminate multi-organ failure that developed rapidly resulting in death 48 hours after onset and despite intensive medical therapy in an ICU including all the bells and whistles.

The attending physicians told the mother that they had never seen anything like this before and I believe them. So did she. No one has seen anything like this since 1918. In 1918 many doctors said the say thing after dealing with their first cases of Spanish Flu and for them too it was a great surprise at least until those that didn't die from the virus themselves had seen it so many times that it was no longer unique.

There are numerous descriptions from the 1918 pandemic that match the one above but no where else in medical history do we find anything remotely similar. This is why the doctors in Milwaukee were so shocked by what they saw.

How many other North American victims had similar pathology? Why have the autopsy and clinical findings from the deaths in Mexico, the US and Canada been suppressed?

I know from press reports that there have been other US deaths where multi-organ failure was present. Is this common among those who have died of Swine Flu or rare? Are the findings similar to those seen in 1918 or not?

Keeping the medical and scientific community together with the public ignorant of the facts is not helpful especially today when information can not be contained as easily as it was in the US in 1918. What is does is raise suspicions rather than calm nerves.

Release the clinical and autopsy data! Tell us what we are really dealing with. Stop giving us the mushroom treatment (keep them in the dark and feed manure on a regular basis).

GW