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3) Lung infiltrates (60%)
4) Vomiting (46%)
5) Shortness of breath (43%)

#3 and #4 are unusual for influenza
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=235601#post235601

F) An article in Science from last week estimated the H1N1 case fatality rate is 0.4% -- four times
higher than seasonal flu.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-05/icl-sfe051109.php
G) The ER in New York has become overwhelmed with patients -- on Tuesday, seeing double the
number of children who present with respiratory symptoms.

Alan D. Aviles, the president of the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation, said that emergency
admissions were running about 50 percent higher than usual for adults and “more than 100
percent above average” for children.

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=235577&postcount=23
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/toddlers-death-stokes-flu-concerns/?hp

46. "The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President
Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology
museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day
from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn’t confirm if
Solis had swine flu or not. "
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aEsNownABJ6Q&refer=worldwide

47. The Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said April 27th that virus
currently circulating in Mexico and the United States and which has killed at least 20 people had
never been found before in any animal and was completely new.
"The virus has not been isolated in animals to date. Therefore, it is not justified to name this
disease swine flu," the OIE said in a press statement.
The virus "includes in its characteristics swine, avian and human virus components," the OIE said,
and urged that it be called "North American influenza," after its geographic origin.
The OIE said it was "urgent" that scientific research be carried out to determine the susceptibility
of animals to what it said was a "new virus."

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48 The new strain is an apparent reassortment of four strains of influenza A virus subtype
H1N1. [64] Analysis by the CDC identified the four component strains as one endemic in humans,
one endemic in birds, and two endemic in pigs (swine).

49. Alexander S Jones, former employee the NIH, has analyzed the genome sequence of the virus
and concluded we “must seriously consider a laboratory origin for this virus”.

“BLAST sequence homology of 'swine flu' indicates both the Hemagglutinin

(HA) surface protein as well as the Non-structural (NS1) interferon

Inhibition proteins are novel recombinants previously unidentified in nature.