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Egypt's Health Minister denies H5N1 & "Swine Flu" coinfection

Re: Egypt's Health Minister denies H5N1 & "Swine Flu" coinfection

The italians denied one of their nationals cases.
 
Re: Egypt's Health Minister denies H5N1 & "Swine Flu" coinfection

Dr Niman has commented on this elsewhere. He points out that even co-transmission with human H3N2 (as CDC suggests in one case) is a problem because H3N2 has likely escaped the seasonal vaccine and has key polymorphisms which could help swine H1N1 do likewise and/or become more virulent if acquired by recombination.

However Niman suspects that there may really be some H5N1/swine co-infections and some "hand-waving" is being done to buy time. If so then of course it is a very serious cause for concern if H5N1 is able to move h2h by piggybacking off of spreading swine H1N1. A scenario potentially worse than reasortment or recombination events according to Niman.
 
Re: Egypt's Health Minister denies H5N1 & "Swine Flu" coinfection

And ProMed issues a correction to the correction.

http://www.promedmail.org/pls/otn/f..._BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1000,79055

Archive Number 20090903.3094
Published Date 03-SEP-2009
Subject PRO/AH/EDR> H5N1/H1N1 virus co-infection - Egypt (02): ex S.Arabia, NOT, corr.


H5N1/H1N1 VIRUS CO-INFECTION - EGYPT (02): ex SAUDI ARABIA, NOT, CORRECTION
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A ProMED-mail post
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International Society for Infectious Diseases
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Date: 3 Sep 2009
From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>


Both the Egyptian Ministry of Health & CDC now concur that the
dual-infected patient hospitalized in Egypt did not have avian (H5N1)
together with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus (see 1st ProMED ref. below).
The co-infection was with seasonal H3N2 virus.

I introduced an error into Mod.CP's comment. The relevant sentence
should read
"It now appears that the co-infection is believed to be between 2 low
virulence viruses (pandemic H1N1 & H3N2) and *not* between a highly
virulent, poorly transmissible, virus (pandemic H5N1) and a highly
transmissible strain of low virulence (H1N1)..."

I regret adding to the confusion.
--
Jack Woodall (Mod.JW)
Assoc.Ed. ProMED
<woodall@promedmail.org>

[see also:
H5N1/H1N1 virus co-infection - Egypt (02): ex S.Arabia, NOT 20090902.3090
H5N1/H1N1 virus co-infection - Egypt: ex S.Arabia, susp, RFI 20090901.3081]
 
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