Luma

http://www.smh.com.au/national/wa-ma...0619-cq3z.html

hitchcock71

the uk had their first one last week - a lady who had just given birth - mum died on sunday and the baby who was 11 weeks early died the next day - very sad x mum did have swine flu baby didn't

The Bloke

Tragic, but he, along with all the others, was in an "at risk" category. The small amount of fatalites globally, is still on par with normal flu outbreaks. The only difference is that the vast amount of media hype.

Luma

No one would be at risk if they didn't feed us crap put crap in the water and tell people to take crap medicine.

Believe what you want - it is supposed to be a free world after all?

Don't ignore the specialst that has warned that WA will be hit hard as he is unfortunately correct. With so many people in the at risk category in WA it is going to be a full on pandemic here.

Pollyana

"The South Australian Department of Health said he died from complications and underlying chronic health conditions."

Because of their pre-disposition to certain health conditions, all indigenous Australians are being treated as being in the high risk category. For the majority of people the symptoms are so mild as to be even less serious than seasonal flu.

The Bloke

Unless you're a cat?



Oddly enough, all states and federal authorities, are now downgrading pandemic alerts.

ABCDiamond

• Monday - He was transferred from Alice Springs hospital to the intensive care unit at Royal Adelaide Hospital as Alice Springs could not care for him appropriately any longer. He had a number of serious illnesses, including pneumonia.
  
• Thursday - He tested positive to swine flu.
  
• Friday - He died, from Swine Flu ? or maybe something else.

Dorothy

If he was in Alice and transferred to Adelaide how is he a WA man?

Pollyana

See my post above. People with underlying conditions, such as lung problems, are more susceptible to gettingcomplications from HSI (Human Swine Flu).

renth

I'm guessing he's from one of the aboriginal communities near the SA border near Uluru, like Warburton.

renth

I don't agree, I think this whole swine flu thing is a beat up. It's really bad news for any future serious pandemic, like bird flu or something like the Spanish flu that hit after WWI as people will be complacent after this.

Having said that, if it gets into the remote aboriginal communities like appears to have happened there could be many deaths because of all the underlying health issues in those communities, like rheumatic fever and the resultant congestive heart failure that so many of them have.

BadgeIsBack

So not only have indigenous people been discriminated against socio-economically, they are discriminated against in nature too....

though you could argue here it amounts to the same thing...a modern disease carried by industrialisation wrecking havoc on an older civilisation...2 worlds colliding..nothing has changed in 200 years.

This is one of the things people have to remember about this issue - it's not about government spending or policy - some people are inherently high-risk.

hackson99

That's too bad. The vaccine will be made out quickly!

the troubadour

I was wondering that myself.

Luma

I read somewhere that there is another flu in Mexico it was about a 1 day or so ago. Somehow I'm not surprised it hasn't made the "regular news".