Sir Liam Donaldson the Chief Medical Officer said yesterday that the “second wave of swine flu may be on its way”.
An estimated 5,200 people in England went down with the virus last week, compared with about 3,000 the previous week after a lull in cases over the summer. Schoolchildren were mainly affected.
The number of deaths linked to the virus also rose to reach 79 fatal cases in Britain and 143 people in England are being treated in hospital, 23 of whom are critically ill. Although experts have been predicting a resurgence of swine flu, Sir Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer, admitted yesterday that officials had hoped for a “bit more breathing space before it started again”.
He said: “We don’t know whether this is the start of the next big wave that we were expecting this autumn, but it is certainly something that is giving us concern.”
He said that it would be a week or two before it became clear whether a fresh surge was under way, but that cases were not expected to peak before next month, when a national vaccination campaign is due to start. He added that two more isolated cases had appeared in Britain of viruses that were resistant to the antiviral drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir), but he said that resistant strains were not spreading in the community and there had been no other mutations of the virus.
Yes you red headed scare monger we know, we are all expecting flu, whether it is swine, “normal” or any other kind, we know that the untested, potentially dangerous Vaccine is due to be unleashed on the public, we know that there are more cases of flu in the winter, we know that Tamiflu is about as useful as “I want great care.org” WE KNOW!
Instead of trying to wind us all up with your doom laden physic foresight why don’t you ensure that there are enough ICU beds available, why don’t you make sure that the “help line” is staffed by people who actually know what they are talking about, why don’t you step back and let us deal with it, the GPs are quite capable of treating or giving advice to sufferers, the number of patients who will be admitted to hospital will be miniscule compared to the total infected.
So, why don’t you just do your job and ensure that there are ample hospital beds available and let the public, who by the way are quite capable of self treatment get on with it.
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Yet another statement of the bloody obvious from the Health Service Fuhrer. Just as the schools go back and University and College terms begin, lo and behold people are mingling and as a consequence are infecting each other! What a f*****g revelation that is.
My daughters Labrador remarked that would be a liklihood in September only the other day. I took no heed, after all she is only a dog. That schoolchildren are the main constituent of the recent cases must have been a bolt from the blue!
Quack wants us to get flu jabs but the dog said know and after recent revelations I agreed. Told the doc the p***s off.
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