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That is what I thought when I went back to check. Puzzle, perhaps it was an old article? The link is gone now, perhaps an edit is in order!
Other links take you to articles that are not on topic? Certainly not the articles I read and posted orginally!

As Wotan says "WERE SAVED", nothing going on in India or .................
Here is a time line 4 the article I was referring to and it was posted on August 25.... my error!
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=77730

I guess we are not saved! This is still an on going story no matter what date it was created. One of many!

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\27\story_27-9-2009_pg11_6 READ This you tell me mystery D does does not H1n1 what the ****

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\27\story_27-9-2009_pg11_6 READ This you tell me mystery D does does not H1n1 what the ****

Egypt: Reports at Tanta Hospital of 13 new H1N1 patients and 7 new H5N1 patients
Posted on September 26, 2009 by niarane
Tanta Fever Hospital was detained and released Tanta and Mahala viruses and viruses Mansoura and Minshawi year, 13 new cases suspected of contracting the disease of swine flu, including people coming from Saudi Arabia and children with symptoms similar to symptoms of the disease on them. ….On the other hand, held the Tanta Fever Hospital and Mahala 7 new cases of suspected bird flu patients, which were held both Amira Abdel Wahab (60) housewife from the dipper Tanta, Muhammad Ashraf (two and a half) from the Alqrcy Tanta, Mohamed Sobhy Mohammed Al-Attar (22 years), the hope of a farm village Snaded Center Tanta and Hassan Abdel Wahab Mohammed (40 years) workers from Mahalla Samanoud by viruses and Salwa Said Abdel-Rahman (30 years), a housewife from the village center Alomboutin Santah by viruses, and Tanta Mahmoud Jaber shepherd (15 years) students from the locality of the late village center Tanta Tanta by viruses and sentenced Mousa Mohammed Abu Musa (45 years) housewife from the village of Kom Qotour by viruses on the status of the camp
google translated orginal article
http://www.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=139108

http://cottontopssandbox.wordpress.com/ ... hern-asia/ Breaking News: Southern Asia
Posted on May 11, 2009 by niarane
includes the following countries:
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
(There is some distrubing news coming out of Western Nepal, Gorkha, and Uhiya. They are calling it a “mysterious illness” but they say they have ruled out swine flu. If this is H5N1, this is a worrisome situation. This “mysterious illness” is swift, and hitting mainly children at this time. Here is from Thursday until presant.-cottontop)
Nepal -Mystery Disease, 13 deaths
Unidentified Disease Takes 13 Lives In Western Nepal
Shafali Sharma – Thu, 05/07/2009 – 16:13
Over the last two weeks, an unknown disease has taken lives of 13 people at the Gumla Village Development Committee of Gorkha district in western Nepal.
According to officials, the majority of those killed because of the unidentified ailment were kids.
They also said that citizens are in the grip of the lethal disease that has left people panic stricken.
On Wednesday, 3 members of a single family including Dambar Maila, his wife Rati Gurung and their son Saila Gurung died due to the same disease.
Other people in the deceased list include Kisman Gurung, Samali Gurung, Saila Gurung, Kanchha Gurung, Kisanman Gurung, Tikan Gurung, Karina Gurung, Manoj Gurung, Sharmila Gurung and Tul Bahadur Gurung.
The main symptoms of the disease are headache, high fever, acute cough, and abdominal pain and itching in the body.
Approximately 35 people gravely affected by the disease have been taken to the district hospital, the functionaries added.
The District Health Office, around 75 km west of Kathmandu, asserted that it got the information of the outbreak late.
Preparations are in full swing to send a group of expert health workers to affected regions.
http://breakingupdate.com/news/unidenti ... 41963.html

Nepal rules out swine flu as mystery virus kills 13
2009-05-07 14:30:00
Last Updated: 2009-05-07 14:43:09
Kathmandu: A medical team that rushedtoaremote village in western Nepal after a mystery diseasekilled13people in less than a fortnight on Wednesday ruled out anoutbreakofswine flu and attributed the deaths to a viral attack.
Over40 more people in Gumla village in Gorkha district were being treatedafter they complained of headache, cough,sore throat and fever.
On Wednesday alone, three villagers had died, creating panic in the area.
[snip]
Nepal became concerned about swine flu after suffering an outbreak of birdfluin its eastern district Jhapa in the neighbouring India,which caused thousands of birds to be culled this year and triggered a shortage of chicken.
[snip]
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?a=jf ... s_kills_13

Mystery disease kills 13 in Gorkha
People in a remote village in Gorkha district have started panicking after at least a dozen people died due to an unidentified disease over the past two weeks.
The disease – that starts with common syndromes like headache, fever and cough- claimed three additional lives Wednesday in Gumda VDC alone taking the death toll to 13.
The deceased belonged to a single family — Dambar Maila, his wife Rati Gurung and their son Saila Gurung. Other deceased are Kisanman Gurung, Karina Gurung, Manoj Gurung, Sharmila Gurung, Kisman Gurung, Samali Gurung, Tikan Gurung, Saila Gurung, Kanchha Gurung and Tul Bahadur Gurung.
Additional 35 locals are suffering from the disease, reports say.
The District Health Office said a team of medical professionals left for the village Wednesday to take the disease under control. The DHO said it could not respond in time as it got the information about the outbreak very late.
Meanwhile, the disease has been identified as post-viral pneumonia. A team of doctors from the health ministry and the district hospital diagnosed the disease as post-viral pneumonia Thursday afternoon. The doctors checked up more than 60 patients Thursday, reports say. nepalnews.com May 07 09
http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2009/m ... news02.php

150 Cases
orkha disease is post-viral pneumonia
Kantipur Report
GORKHA, May 8 – The disease that killed 13 in a village of Gorkha district has been diagnosed as post-viral pneumonia.The medical team that reached Gumda from the district headquarters yesterday identified the disease spread in the village for the past three weeks and started treating the patients.
After getting treatment, about 150 villagers who are suffering from the disease — out of which 30 were critical – are gradually recovering after the treatment.
The disease took three lives on Wednesday alone.
The number of children among the deceased is significant.
The disease has symptom of headache, fever and cough along with pain in the abdomen and itching in the body.
http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=193100

Spreading to Uhiya
Comment: This article reports that this disease, (Post Viral Pneumnia?), is spreading. Uhiya VDC (district?) is just to the north of Gumda VDC. Post Viral Pneumonia is an awful vague description. Another article called it Viral Fever. Viral Fever is another vague term which as best as I can tell is a general term which often lumps influenza in with any number of other unidentified viral diseases.

Mystery disease identifiedLast Updated : 2009-05-08 11:02 AM
GORKHA: The mystery disease that triggered panic in remote Gumda VDC for the past two weeks has been identified. Health Minister Giriraj Mani Pokhrel arrived here on Thursday along with a team of officials. He announced that Post Viral Pneumonia led to the death of 13 villagers. Dr Gunaraj Lohani, chief, district health and medical superintendent, said that so far around 100 patients had been treated for the outbreak. A majority of the patients is children. Gumda VDC is located around 75 km from district headquarters. The disease is spreading to adjoining Uhiya VDC as well.
http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNe ... catid=NQ==

Nepal Maps
Detailed Map of Gorkha District
http://www.un.org.np/maps/dist…Nepal Administrative Divisions Map
http://ncthakur.itgo.com/map04…
Nepal Zonal Divisions Map
http://ncthakur.itgo.com/map04…

UP puts Indo-Nepal border under scanner for H1N1 virus
Press Trust Of India
Gorakhpur, May 10, 2009
First Published: 16:50 IST(10/5/2009)
Last Updated: 16:53 IST(10/5/2009)
Uttar Pradesh government has declared Indo-Nepal border as “sensitive” in the wake of the outbreak of deadly swine flu, which has spread to 31 countries.
An official spokesman told PTI on Sunday that following a warning from the WHO, the state government has made arrangements to monitor the border.
“Monitoring centres equipped with team of doctors and medical kits have been set up at the immigration offices of Sonauli and Rupaideeha barriers of Indo-Nepal border falling under Mahrajganj and Bahraich districts respectively,” he said.
Chief Medical Officer of Gorakhpur R N Mishra told PTI that WHO has provided these doctors with personal protection kits, including mask and goggles, to collect blood samples of people entering India via the border.
Isolated wards have been set up in health centres in these two districts as well as at BRD Medical College here to conduct tests on people showing symptoms of H1N1 virus, Mishra said.
The chief medical officer said arrangements have been made to send blood samples to National Institute of Virology, Pune and National Institute of Communicable Diseases, New Delhi for confirmatory tests.
Stocks of Tamiflu– a globally recognised medicine to combat the disease– are being arranged at all vulnerable districts, he said adding that no one has so far tested positive for the influenza.
http://tinyurl.com/oajrfy

Gorkha, Nepal – 40 Pneumonia, 8 critical
Pneumonia scourge in hostelLast Updated : 2009-05-10 8:41 AM
THT Online
GORKHA: More than 50 per cent of the students living in a hostel of Manakamana Deaf Secondary School at Taksar in Gorkha-8 are suffering from pneumonia. Over 40 students are suffering from the disease while condition of eight students is reported to be critical, a school source said.
According to Khadananda Regmi, chairman of the school management committee, the number of students suffering from the disease was increasing everyday while more and more students were showing symptoms of the disease of headache, fever and vomiting.
The students suffering from the disease are undergoing treatment in the hostel with the help of the staffers from the district public health office.
The school is running classes up to Grade IX and 80 deaf students from several districts are living in the school hostel, the school source said.
http://tinyurl.com/q7f4ft
(and now this out of Vietnam)
Vietnam – Fever rampant in Ha Noi children
HA NOI – The number of children suffering from virus-related fevers and respiratory diseases is rising in Ha Noi. The number of children admitted to the hospital has risen in the past few weeks, said Dr Nguyen The Thanh of Bach Mai Hospital’s Paediatrics Department.
“There are between 70 and 80 child patients hospitalised each day. This number increases by 150 at the weekends when the outpatients’ department is off,” he said.
Three to a bed
Currently, the hospital is crammed with young patients, with two or three children sharing a bed.
The Saint Paul Hospital’s Paediatrics Department is currently receiving 500 to 600 new patients each day. As many as 200 of these have acute respiratory problems and high fever, according to the department’s Doctor Nguyen Thi Tho.
Thanh said that common symptoms were headaches, chills, muscle pain and vomiting. Some also suffered from convulsions and difficulty breathing.
“For the most part, patients recover from a high fever after five to seven days treatment, but the condition sometimes reoccurs among weak patients,” he said.
The doctor also warned that the symptoms of virus-caused fevers were similar to encephalitis.
“People who still have a fever after the usual recovery period should be hospitalised and take further tests to avoid serious complications that may include brain damage,” the doctor said.
In spite of the high number of patients, there was no sign that this was an epidemic.
Director of the Central Paediatrics Hospital Nguyen Thanh Liem said it was difficult to distinguish between the AH1N1 flu and other kinds of flu, but so far there had been no cases of swine flu in Viet Nam. – VNS

hat tip Rufree
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Daily Times Pakistan

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Malik wants swine flu patients kept in quarantine

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday urged the officials concerned to ensure that swine flu patients were kept in quarantine, an Interior Ministry press release read. According to the press release, he also directed the Federal Investigation Agency (Immigration) to coordinate with the Health Department to ensure all proper precautions. staff report

This will take you to this story But you will have to copy and paste the whole address!
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\27\story_27-9-2009_pg11_6

Patient tests negative for Congo fever

* 65-year-old patient was brought to PIMS bleeding from nose, eyes and other parts of body
* NIH declares he is not a patient of Congo fever

By Mahtab Bashir

ISLAMABAD: A suspected Congo fever patient was admitted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on Saturday but after laboratory test it was confirmed that he had not contracted the virus, Dr Waseem Khawaja, the hospital’s spokesman, told Daily Times.

Dr Khawaja said Ghulam Hussain, 65, a resident of Haripur, was brought to hospital on Saturday with suspected symptoms of Congo fever.

“Hussain was brought here bleeding from his eyes, nose and other parts of body. Immediately, he was shifted to an isolation ward and samples of his blood dispatched to National Institute of Health (NIH). After laboratory test, the NIH confirmed that Hussain was not a patient of Congo virus,” Dr Khawaja said.

He said PIMS administration had already placed the hospital under emergency and established an isolation ward for treatment of swine flu and Congo virus patients.

He said Congo virus or viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) refer to a group of illnesses that were caused by several distinct families of viruses. “In general, the term ‘viral hemorrhagic fever’ is used to describe a severe multi-system syndrome. Characteristically, overall vascular system is damaged, and the body’s ability to regulate itself is impaired in this disease,” he said.

He said its symptoms often included marked fever, fatigue, dizziness, muscle aches, loss of strength, and exhaustion. “Patients with severe cases of VHF often show signs of bleeding under the skin, in internal organs, or from body orifices like the mouth, eyes, or ears. They may bleed from many sites around the body but these patients rarely die because of blood loss,” Dr Khawaja said.

He said the patients received supportive therapy and there was no other treatment or established cure for VHF. “Ribavirin, an anti-viral drug, has been effective in treating some individuals with Lassa fever or HFRS, but it is very expensive and not everyone in Pakistan can afford it,” he said.

Earlier on Friday, Fazal Dad, 58, a resident of Abottabad, was admitted to PIMS bleeding from his nose, eyes, and other parts of body. After laboratory test, he was confirmed a patient of Congo fever.