(Thanks to AlohaOR for finding this.-cottontop)

[AlohaOR's note: The source is Epoch Times, a newspaper that is consistently critical of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and policies of the Chinese government.  This story is attributed to Reuters and Associated Press, but I have not been able to find the equivalent story in any other source.  My interpretation of the machine translation follows each paragraph.  I welcome anyone who reads Chinese to provide corrections.]

(Machine translated)

By Reuters December 20 (Associated Press Shi Lei roundup) China
A stream of severe, deaths continues to increase. A stream in Guangdong, the rare emergence of new children with severe symptoms, is currently in the country has no relevant reports. Experts say flu is now worried that integrate mutate into “super-flu.”
[A disease is causing severe sypmtoms and death in children in Guangdong.  Experts worry about flu mutations. Authorities are not reporting this.]

Pok Oi Hospital, Zhongshan City, four pediatric director of Fu Mao said the number of children admitted to a flow of successive severe, Jun Cheng emerged in purulent sputum of a very high viscosity, “the latest symptom.” A flow of hospitalized children with onset just a day or so, it appears extremely difficult breathing, nose flap, shallow and fast breathing severe symptoms. Currently in the country has no relevant reports.
[Pediatric hospitals are seeing children with a rapid onset of severe respiratory symptoms.]

A Beijing residents who wish to voice a journalist to reveal, Xuanwu District Public Security Bureau two police officers hospitalized because of flu, his condition deteriorated very quickly, “pretty weird and suddenly there are two days cough, can not stand, and to the hospital would have lost plasma , quite severe. “reporter called Xuanwu District Public Security Bureau asked on duty to avoid did not answer.
[Two police officers in Xuanwu District were hospitalized with the flu after rapid deterioration of their condition.]

A stream of the virus caused the pneumonia in strict isolation of patients and their families do not understand the treatment process, some families can finally get the ashes. Beijing informed members of the public said: “He told you, the patient fever, then burned after the person has died, (ashes) can be handed over to family members. (Family members) know not, that is, the patient’s immediate family members also know not, let see, more than The facility also strict, prison visiting hours there are, um, not. “
[The virus is causing pneumonia.  Patients are being kept in strict isolation, with very strict/limited visitation.  The bodies of fatal cases are cremated, possibly without the family's prior knowledge/consent.]

Beijing Municipal Health Bureau, side to England December 17 said that now is not really the core issue of concern of H1N1 influenza A, but worried that influenza virus in human, poultry, pigs integrate the three who mutate into “super-flu”, That would be disastrous. “Therefore, in the face of each critically ill patients we would consider ‘Is there something else’.”
[Authorities are concerned about a recombination of human, avian and swine influenza creating a "super-flu".  They are examining each critically ill patient to watch for flu virus mutations.]

Starting from December 16, Shanghai, said that under the uniform provisions, expand a current vaccination crowd, the live poultry market in places such as livestock and poultry, there is occupational exposure of staff; zoo staff engaged in animal husbandry, construction, etc. concentration of labor units, particularly migrant workers into a stream of key target groups, free vaccination.
[Beginning Dec. 16, free (mandatory?) vaccinations are being offered to workers who handle live poultry, and to veterinary and livestock workers.]

Ih-Jen Su, vice president of Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University Hospital, said the H5N1 bird flu mortality rate was 60%, than the H1N1 serious. China bird flu in many parts of the ground-based, that is, is popular in the community (3% of the land birds, water birds with this virus), it is now more concerned about the H1N1 influenza and avian flu H5N1 will restructure.
[In China, the H5N1 mortality rate (in humans) is 60%. Bird flu is widespread in birds, affecting 3% of both land- and water-based birds. The expert is concerned that H1N1 and H5N1 will combine.]

According to Chinese Ministry of Health, Director of the Office of Health Emergency Response Liang years December 11, said China’s current flow is still in the active phase A, the next one to two months of the epidemic situation is still grim.  With the New Year’s Day, New Year facing a tide of peasant workers, students tide, visiting relatives, a large population influx of movement, population mobility are likely to make a source of infection the same as the fire spread to the areas where there is no infection. According to CDC Deputy Director of Guangzhou Yang Zhicong, at present in Guangzhou for a flow of all influenza patients.
[The Director of the Office of Health Emergency Response warned on Dec. 11 that the epidemic risk is serious for the next 1-2 months because of large population movements for New Years Day, possibly leading to widespread exposure and infection in areas that have not been heavily affected by H1N1 so far.]

According to the Ministry of Health informed the CPC, as of last weekend, a stream a total of 442 cases of patients died, of which 116 cases occurred in the last week, China has already confirmed that about 11 million people infected with a stream.  However, the message displays only the Guangzhou City, nearly 1.7 million people have been infected by a stream.  December 10, Guangzhou Municipal Health Bureau spokesman said Xiong Yuanda, Guangzhou City, Guangzhou City, CDC recently conducted in healthy people serum testing showed that 14% of people have produced antibodies, indicating that they had previously been infected by a stream.
[The Ministry of Health has reported 442 H1N1 deaths, of which 116 occurred in the last week, with about 11 million cases.  However, in Guangzhou City alone, nearly 1.7 million people have been infected with H1N1, and a seroprevalence study showed that 14% of healthy people in Guangzhou City had H1N1 antibodies.]
[continued]

translated

orginal source

http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/9/12/20/n2760278.htm

Canada
•  All 3 levels of government get passing grade for handling of flu: poll  (Link)

Egypt
•  Death toll of A/H1N1 flu reaches 86 (Link)
•  Coop contest promotes bird-flu prevention (Link)

India
•  Minister down with swine flu (Link)
•  H1N1 virus not yet dormant, says expert  (Link)

Palestine
•  Influenza A/H1N1 virus kills three more Gazans (Link)

United States
•  RI: Lillian’s Obituary-NCU Student (Link)

Commentary
•  Recombinomics: Ukraine Cases Top 3 Million – 21 New Deaths (Link)
•  Recombinomics: Japan H1N1Tamiflu Resistance Levels Raise Concerns (Link)
•  Recognition at Avian Flu Diary  (Link)
•  Vaccination provides protection when third wave of H1N1 hits  (Link)

SEOUL (AFP) – A South Korean infant infected with swine flu has died of pneumonia and respiratory failure after showing no response to the anti-viral drug Tamiflu, officials said Thursday.

The one-year-old girl died on December 1 in hospital, the health ministry said, adding that health officials discovered a strain of the (A)H1N1 virus resistant to Tamiflu in her body.

“It marked the first such fatality at home, but we need consultations with the (World Health Organisation) to see if it was the world’s first such case,” Chung Chan-Woo, an official at the ministry’s swine flu centre, told AFP.

The girl was hospitalised on November 14 for high fever and coughs but her condition continued to deteriorate despite double doses of Tamiflu, he said.

The girl was too young to be given another anti-viral drug, Relenza, which is approved for treatment only in children who are seven years and older, he said.

South Korea has reported two other cases of Tamiflu-resistant patients. Its death toll from swine flu has reached 118.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091217/hl_afp/healthskoreaflu

China
•  116 more deaths from A/H1N1 flu (Link)

Japan
•  H5N1 Pandemic Planning by National Police Agency (Link)

Thailand
•  Second wave of H1N1 flu hits (Link)
•  One sample from a pig farm in Saraburi infected wth influenza 2009 (Link)

United Kingdom
•  HPA Weekly pandemic flu media update (Link)

United States

•  NC: UNC student hospitalized with H1N1 dies (Link)
•  NV:Two More Flu Deaths Reported in Southern Nevada (Link)
•  PA: 4 New Deaths on PA Website 12.17.09-All Phila.County  (Link)
•  UT: Another swine flu death reported (Link)

Vietnam
•  Number of deaths due to H1N1 in Vietnam to 50 (Link)

By David Goldstein • MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS • December 16, 2009

WASHINGTON — The swine flu outbreak has exposed holes in the nation’s emergency-preparedness network, according to a report issued Tuesday on how well states can handle a public health disaster.

“The H1N1 outbreak has vividly revealed existing gaps in public health emergency preparedness,” said Richard Hamburg, the deputy director of the Trust for America’s Health, a nonpartisan public-health advocacy group, which co-authored the report with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Hamburg, who spoke on a conference call with reporters, compared what he called the nation’s “Band-Aid approach” to emergency preparedness to “only funding the fire department after the fire has already started.”

cotinued

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091216/NEWS08/912160375/2067

China
•  China swine flu death toll soars past 400 (Link)

Egypt
•  3 more deaths from H1N1 (Link)

India
•  Swine flu alert in Assam (Link)
•  H1N1 mother transmits flu to newborn in Pune (Link)
•  2 more die of H1N1 in Gujarat; death toll reaches 64 (Link)

Japan
•  Japan Temporarily Bans Korean Poultry (Link)

Palestine
•  Gaza: Grave concerns over H1N1 (Link)

Taiwan
•  The prevalence of avian influenza into the peak of experts called to strengthen immunization (translated) (Link)

United States
•  Swine flu vaccine side effects twice as bad as seasonal flu vaccine, says CDC H1N1 vaccine report (Link) 
•  Some Pharmacies to Offer H1N1 Flu Vaccines Nationwide (Link)

Vietnam
•  Bird flu (H5N1) hits north, south (Link)

General
•  No safety concerns with flu vaccine recall (Link)

Research
•  Clues found why H1N1 virus kills (Link)

Commentary
•  Recombinomics: Ukraine H1N1 Cases Explode – 507 Dead (Link)
•  H1N1 flu vaccine stories mask poor distribution (Link)

Rapid H1N1 Evolution in Beijing Raises Concerns
Recombinomics Commentary 13:25
December 15, 2009

The Beijing Institute for Microbiology and Epidemiology has released sequences from a recent isolates collected in Beijing.  All eight were nasal swabs collected in November.  Although MP and NS sequences were deposited for all eight samples, these sequences match the pandemic H1N1 consensus and therefore were not informative.  However, NP sequences from five isolates had a number of polymorphic markers and all five sequences were virtually identical, These markers were found in other H1N1 sequences, but had a wide geographic distribution matching sequences from Texas (see list here) , Spain (here), and China (here), as well as H5N1 (here) or swine (here) signaling extensive recombination.

Similar analysis for other genes showed the the Beijing sequences were closely related to each other, but the newly acquired polymorphisms traced back to H1N1 in a number of geographic locations.

However, most striking were the three HA sequences which had a clustering of polymorphisms flanking the HA cleavage site.  Several of these polymorphisms were non-synonymous and signaled rapid evolution of the HA gene.

Two of the non-synonymous polymorphisms (S131P and A337T) were in all three isolates (A/Beijing/718/2009. A/Beijing/720/2009, A/Beijing/721/2009).  Three were in 720 and 721 (T314P, L322M, S327F).  One was in 718 and 720 (S330Y).  Unique changes were in 718 (A319T), 720 (L5R), 721 (T320S, G342E, Y354F).

The large number of changes, and the combinations of shared polymorphisms, suggest significant recombination and rapid evolution, which may be heralding a new wave.

Full sequences on all eight isolates would be useful, as would more timely release of sequences from other countries.

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/12150901/H1N1_Beijing_Rapid.html

Canada
•  Millions of doses left over (Link)

Egypt
•  Governor of Cairo closes 80 learning centers (translated) (Link)
•  Swine flu deaths up to 61 (translated) (Link)

South Korea
•  South Korean flu aid to reach N.Korea this weekend (Link)

United States
•  Update: Reported rise in swine flu related deaths (Link)
•  US: Children’s Vaccine recalled – not strong enough (Link)
•  TX: Texas gets top score in swine flu readiness (Link)

Vietnam
•  H5N1 in birds in Thai Nguyen province (Link)
•  H5N1 Seroprevalence Study (Link)
•  H5N1 in birds in Ca Mao province (Link)

General
•  2009 H1N1 Flu Test From Quest Diagnostics (Link)
•  Crucial vaccine being ignored – Pneumonia shots not going to all who need them, authorities say (Link)

Commentary
•  Recombinomics: Receptor Binding Domain Changes in Texas (Link)

By Robert McCoppin | Daily Herald Staff

More than 1,000 people showed up to the Round Lake Area Park District Sports Center to try for scarce H1N1 vaccine administered by the Lake County Health Department.

The H1N1 pandemic should have come with an announcement: this is a test of the public health emergency system.

If this had been a virulent virus, there’s a decent chance you might have been dead before you got the vaccine.

The H1N1 flu virus, also known as swine flu, turned out to be mild in most cases. But some experts say we dodged a bullet.

An estimated 50 million people got the flu – one out of six Americans. If the virus had been as deadly as first feared, the lack of vaccine would have created a national uproar.

The fact remains that an estimated 10,000 people in this country – including 79 in Illinois – died in part from flu complications because they did not get a vaccine.

And while health officials say supplies will increase rapidly in the next few weeks, it’s still hard to get.

continued

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=343978

Egypt
•  Death toll from A/H1N1 flu reaches 59 in Egypt (Link)

France
•  Press release – Seizes up A (H1N1) 2009: the point in Metropolitan France (translated) (Link)

India
•  Unrelenting flu: One dead, 16 test positive (Link)

Ireland
•  Victim caught swine flu in hospital (Link)

Mexico
•  Mexico sees tourism recovering from 2009 flu blow (Link)

Poland
•   A/H1N1 flu takes more lives in Poland  (Link)

South Korea
•  S. Korea to spend $15M on flu aid to N. Korea (Link)

Ukraine
•  Egypt Decides To Provide Ukraine With Humanitarian Aid To Fight Flu  (Link)

United States
•  U.S. needs to focus more on vaccine safety: Report (Link)
•  National Vaccine Plan Should Prioritize Efforts to Tackle Unmet Health Needs (Link)
•  Top Stories of 2009 (Link)
•  FDA Gives Emergency Approval for New Swine Flu Test (Link)
•  CA: Distribution plans fall short for H1N1 vaccine (Link)
•  CO: Hospital restrictions relaxed as H1N1 subsides  (Link)
x•  MD: Rockville, Md., NOVAVAX Completes First Stage (Link)
•  OH: The View From Space: “3rd Type” Of H1N1 May Be Worst (Link)

General 
•  Swine flu science update: 14 December 2009  (Link)
•  Five Gene Variants May Be Linked to Lung Disease  (Link)

The source is SoundofHope.org, a broadcast service founded by Falun Gong practitioners and supporters, which is critical of the Chinese government on its human rights record.  I believe this article is: (a) reporting the Tamiflu resistant strains of H1N1, (b) reporting concern about the possibility of a combination of H1N1 and H5N1, and (c) reporting concerns about under-reporting of H1N1 on the mainland.]

(Machine translation)

December 11, 2009 Friday Show Length: 4 minutes 2 seconds to download mp3

According to the Army General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, a doctor say that there is a variation of flow has occurred, and not just a new variant virus, for the variation of the virus is currently no drug that can cure. Zhong Nanshan, China’s well-known respiratory disease experts also pointed out that if the H1N1 and H5N1 re-combination, it would be a catastrophe.

Zhong Nanshan, a few days ago, said in an interview, at present, while in the fight against a stream flow, and also guard against a reorganization and variation of bird flu. (Recording) This is still a major concern to us, because of bird flu in China, there is the basis of the original, this is not the same as with the United States. Happen if the H1N1 and H5N1 re-combination, it would be a catastrophe. Therefore, we must be active in these two areas to prevent.

Zhong Nanshan, also said that a stream has become an absolute superiority of influenza virus strains currently in treatment of influenza cases, a flow of cases have been developed to account for as much as 9.

He pointed out that, according to the China Academy of Engineering, the new experts on the H1N1 influenza forecast peak mainland China will have 130 million to 260 million people are infected, accounting for 10% of the total population to 20%; of which only 8,000 people will 10000-170000000 symptoms infected persons accounted for 2 / 3; there will be 800 million to 1,700 million patients need hospitalization, accounting for symptoms of those about 10%.

According to the doctor revealed: A current virus mutates, the new virus called What’s the name are confidential. Although each person is infected with a stream, but not the same, the virus has occurred in different variations, so every infected patients is not the same.

Engaged in genetic research at the University of Toronto’s Dr. Chen Anan view, (recording) from the medical point of view from the immunological point of view, two different kinds of influenza viruses, such as a stream of viruses and avian influenza viruses also infected with the same person or with a host of When two kinds of virus genes have the opportunity to re-mix, thus generating a new influenza virus. This new virus is neither produced nor is it a flow of the virus of avian influenza virus, but a new influenza virus.  This after the emergence of new recombinant viruses may have a higher toxicity and more easily infect humans. To make matters worse, so the emergence of new influenza viruses to existing drugs may have a stronger resistance to the existing vaccine produced by this new virus will not have a preventive function.  This is to remind the public to be alert Mr. Zhong Nanshan reasons.

According to WHO figures, as of November 25, the global H1N1 confirmed cases is 44?1?6 100 61 cases, death 5,712 people, including the United States confirmed case is 80004 1000 9 100 33 cases, 2,233 deaths, while the China confirmed case is 80000 zero 39 cases, only 109 people died, is one twentieth of the United States mortality.

Zhong Nanshan said: So I do not believe the official figures.  Even the United States Center for Disease Control say the actual figure in the United States than the reported figures much higher. How high? 140 times higher than the actual figures. I think that China is.

Early this year, the WHO declared the outbreak of swine flu in the world, some experts pointed out that the swine flu in Asia, once the outbreak of bird flu and the Asian meet, there will probably be gene mutation, so dire consequences. At present H1N1 outbreak in mainland China, in pursuit of political performance, many local governments deliberately covered up the epidemic, even for suspected H1N1 patients did not carry out testing.  Experts point out that such an approach will lead to the medical profession can not grasp the spread of the virus and possible mutation. If the swine influenza and avian influenza viruses combine to form a new virus, it would be a catastrophe.

(thanks to AlohaOR for providing this traslated article)

 http://soundofhope.org/programs/162/145029-1.asp

•  China worries swine flu vaccine campaign faltering (Link)

Georgia
•  Georgia reports first lethal case of swine flu (Link)

Netherlands
•  Goat Flu Epidemic Reported in Netherlands (Link)

Pakistan
•  Another H1N1 positive HCW at the same hospital (Link)
•  Every man for himself as swine flu scare spreads (Link)

Trinidad and Tobago
•  Probe these pneumonia deaths (Link)

United Kingdom
•  HPA weekly update 10th Dec (Link)
•  Children to get just half dose of swine flu vaccine (Link)

United States
•  H1N1 cases declining nationally but new danger: complacency (Link)
•  US: Only 14 U.S. states report widespread flu activity last week (Link)
•  US: Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays (Link)
•  NV: H1N1 Shots now Available For All (Link)
•  TX:  El Paso Man 17th to Die From H1N1 (Link)

Vietnam
•  Ca Mau: The risk of recurrence of influenza A/H5N1 in poultry (Link)

General
•  Flu Vaccine Shortages In Developing Countries Could Destabilize Global Security, Says Former WHO Deputy Head (Link)
•  New vaccine technologies on horizon but face roadblocks (Link)

Commentary
•  Recombinomics: Fixing Fatal Tamiflu Resistance in Pandemic H1N1 (Link)

Recombinomics Commentary 14:53
December 11, 2009
Until this week were 11 patients diagnosed in the Netherlands, including 5 this week, with a New Influenza A (H1N1) virus that is resistant to the antiviral agent Tamiflu (oseltamivir) that such patients are treated. Four of these patients are deceased.

The above translation highlights the dramatic jump in H274Y in the Netherlands, which is associated with a high case fatality rate. The number of cases with H274Y has almost doubled in the past week (see map) and the case fatality rate for the 11 cases is above 36%.  This high rate raises concerns that isolates with H274Y also have receptor binding domain changes, leading to a high CFR.  In France, two fatalities with D225G were identified, and one of the two had H274Y.  These associations are creating increased concerns.

Release of the sequences with H274Y would help determine if a new sub-clade is emerging with lethal markers like the D225N and D225G identified in Ukraine.

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/12110901/H274Y_Fatal_Netherlands_Spike.html

Canada
•  Health bosses accused of flu-mongering (Link)

China
•  Chinese health officials step up flu prevention (Link)

France
•  Influenza pandemic (H1N1) 2009 (127): France, UK (Link)
•  France – Press Communication – H1N1 (translated) (Link)

Palestinine
•  Infectious bronchitis, poultry – Palestinian Auth: (Gaza) susp (Link)
•  Infectious bronchitis, poultry Gaza (H5N1?) (Link)

United States
•  10,000 US H1N1 deaths (Link)
•  CA: Swine flu vaccine on the way to Calif. inmates (Link)
•  KY: Worst may be coming for H1N1 (Link)
•  OR: 11 more hospitalizations, 1 more death in 3 days (Link)
•  PA: Fit, but dead of swine flu (Link)
•  PA: (1) New Death on PA DOH Website for 12.11.09-YorkCounty (Link)

General
•  The Truth About Tamiflu (Link)
•  WHO insists Tamiflu effective for high risk flu cases (Link)

(The flu news seems to really be slowing down. -cottontop)

(This is a heads up. This article is confirming H1N1/H5N1 dual infection in a young boy after eating duck soup.-cottontop)

In case of death due to influenza A/H5N1 after eating duck soup more of a young men at Dien Bien on November 30 experts has raised concerns about the ability to match the influenza A/H1N1 virus and influenza A/H5N1 virus are at risk are very close.

“The risk of a combination of influenza virus A/H1N1 and influenza A/H5N1 virus is very close to. Vietnam currently has sufficient condition for this risk becomes reality,” Dr. Nguyen Tran Hien, Director of Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology of central receiving.

Show his outlook given the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology Central announced the latest report on the epidemiological investigation in Dien Bien, which is just the latest case of deaths due to H5N1.

Epidemiological investigation showed that: In case of death by eating more duck soup at Dien Bien is positive for influenza A/H5N1 virus. After taking a random sample from their child’s case to test the test, the results showed that young cousin’s death was due to influenza A/H5N1 influenza A/H1N1 infection.

Continue to check poultry being raised by families of cases of death due to influenza A/H5N1, the results showed: Poultry is also infected with influenza A/H5N1.

“So, the first in Vietnam, the same time, the influenza A/H1N1 and influenza A/H5N1 occurred in a community population, in both human and poultry. Therefore, likely a new strain will come out, the recombinant virus from the second. If this happens, the virus would have spread faster than influenza A/H1N1 virus, while also having a higher pathogenic influenza A/H5N1 virus,” said the sage.

If this risk becomes reality, the health sector will face challenges more heavily. 2009 actually showed that influenza A/H1N1 virus can spread easily in all conditions. Now with influenza A/H5N1, mortality rate in Vietnam as of this moment is 100%!

 [snip]

translated

http://vietnamnet.vn/xahoi/doisong/200912/Nguy-co-ket-hop-virus-cum-A/H1N1-A/H5N1-dang-den-rat-gan-883359/

(This is obviously talking about H5N1. Another heads up.-cottontop)

Dec 10, 2009 12:22 AM

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/12100902/H5N1_H1N1_Dien_Bien.html?

Czech Republic
•  Swine flu death toll doubles (Link)

India
•  Swine flu tightens its grip on Punjab, Haryana (Link)

North Korea
•  Lack of Medical Equipment difficult to prevent Spread of H1N1 Influenza (Link)

United Kingdom
•  GPs will ’suspend normal services’ if swine flu pandemic continues says BMA (Link)

United States
•  US: H1N1 Poses Greater Risk to Native Americans (Link)
•  H1N1 death rate is elevated for Indians, Alaska natives (Link)
•  US Swine Flu Death Toll at 10,000 Since April  (Link)
•  CO: Two cats (different households) tested positive for H1N1 (Link)
•  IA: Iowa’s H1N1 death toll hits 36  (Link)
•  MN: Vaccine shipments halted due to deep freeze (Link)
•  PA: (2) New Deaths on PA DOH Website for 12.10.09 (Link)

Vietnam
•  WHO reaffirms H1N1 vaccine saves lives (Link)

Commentary
•  Effect Measure: The Tamiflu doesn’t work non-story (Link)

General
•  Study reveals H1N1 unexpected weakness (Link)
•  H1N1 causes lung damage much like 1918 (Link)

“In fatal cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza, the virus can damage cells throughout the respiratory airway, much like the viruses that caused the 1918 and 1957 influenza pandemics.” “A microscopic examination of tissues throughout the airways revealed that the virus caused damage primarily to the upper airway—the trachea and bronchial tubes—but tissue damage in the lower airway, including deep in the lungs, was present as well. Evidence of secondary bacterial infection was seen in more than half of the victims.”

continued

http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2009/FluAutopsy.htm

Canada
•  More H1N1 cases reported in Nunavut (Link)

China
•  China offers aid to Ukraine to fight H1N1 (Link)
•  Ongoing H1N1 Outbreak Cover-up in China (Link)

France
•  French deaths spark vaccine demand (Link)

Japan
•  100 H1N1 deaths (translated) (Link)

South Korea
•  Republic Of Korea plans to help DPRK with A/H1N1 flu (Link)

Tajikistan
•  Tajiks Fear First Swine-Flu Death (Link)

United Kingdom
•  Just one in five people given Tamiflu by NHS hotline was actually suffering from swine flu (Link)

United States
•  MD: Maryland Governor O’Malley: Swine Flu Vaccine Available To All (Link)
•  OR: 3 days, 5 deaths, 5 hospitalizations (Link)
•  PA: Hospital Workers Fired for not Getting SF Vaccine (Link)

General
•  CIDRAP: Autopsies show damage to entire airway (Link) Full NIH Report (Link)
•  Doctors query ability of Tamiflu to stop severe illness (Link)

Research
•  Research throws up doubts over Tamiflu (Link)

Commentary
•  Effect Measure: Flu Vaccine Safety (Link)

D225G and D225N In Utah Patient Raises Pandemic Concerns Recombinomics Commentary 23:55 December 6, 2009 The CDC has put HA sequences, A/Utah/42/2009, from a Utah patient (28F) on deposit at Genbank, which has D225G and D225N. Moreover, the sequence from the original sample gives mixed signals at tandem positions, revealing significant heterogeneity that the codon. A clone for the original sample has D225G. D225N and D225G have been identified in necropsy lung samples from Brazil (A Sao Paulo/53845/2009 and A/Sao Paulo/53838/2009 have D225N while A/Sao Paulo/53225/2009 and A/Sao Paulo/53206/2009 have D225G) raising concerns that these polymorphisms are associated with more severe disease.

The severity may be linked to viral load, because D225G and D225N were present as mixtures in early cases in the US in California and Texas. In fact the vaccine target, A/California/7/2009 was a mixture for D225G, as were several other isolates isolated at about the same time in Texas and California. Other isolates in the same areas, as well as New York, did not give mixed signals, but D225G was found in milder cases.

full article

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/12060901/D225G_D225N_Utah.html

China
•  Local authorities ‘could be underreporting’ (Link)

Egypt
•  Death 30 and 31 from swine flu (translated) (Link)

Greece
•  confirmation of 32 deaths in new totals, 3 more critical (Link)

India
•  Nine more swine flu deaths (Link)
•  Five swine flu deaths in Delhi, India toll 632 (Link)
•  4 more H1N1 deaths in New Delhi, a 5th not counted (Link)
•  Himachal Pradesh confirms 3rd H1N1 death (Link)
•  3 more deaths confirmed in Punjab, total either 6 or 8 now (Link)
•  Five swine flu deaths in Delhi, India toll 632 (Link)
• Jaipur counts 4 more deaths, total in Rajasthan state now 77  (Link)

Japan
•  70% set to hoard in swine flu crisis (Link)

Palestine
•  Gaza: First swine flu death (Link)

Saudi Arabia
•  10 more H1N1 deaths (Link)

United States
•  US: At death’s door with H1N1 for three weeks (Link)
•  FL:Two More H1N1 Deaths In Miami-Dade  (Link)
•  IL: Minorities hit harder by H1N1 (Link)
•  IN: Vanderburgh County Opens H1N1 Clinics to General Public (Link)
•  MA: Massachusetts confirms 7 more deaths in past 2 weeks, total now 24 (Link)
•  PA: Washington Co-4th county death (Link)
•  PA: (1) New Death on PA DOH Website (Link)
•  TN: Flu vaccines available in Rutherford County (Link)
•  TX: Dallas announced last week, started this morning (Link)
•  WA: Swine flu vaccine open to everyone in Island County (Link)

General
•  ’Rational drug design’ identifies fragments of FDA-approved drugs relevant to emerging viruses (Link)
•  Patient in Utah has swine flu virus with D225G, low reactor H1N1 mutation causing lung hemorrhaging (Link)
•  Don’t let swine flu crash your holiday party (Link)

Research
•  Successful Phase I/II Clinical Trial for BiondVax (Link)
•  Ancient HIV stowaway may hold clue to transmission  (Link)

Commentary
•  Experts say flu pandemic could be mildest on record (Link)