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Dingo

If you believe Niman its 1918 again. Toss a coin and look at how many times Niman has been wrong. The boy that cried wolf how many times.

No doubt based on the odds Niman is due. Maybe this season. Heres hoping for Nimans sake.

Kangaroo,dingo wombat

See Burt Newtons in hospital gravely I'll with pneumonia. This pneumonia is very contagious, it would seem,as the media are reporting he caught it off his granddaughter.

http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-ozflu-no6-11.htm/$file/ozflu-no6-2011.pdf

Levels of influenza-like illness (ILI) in the community continue to remain low through sentinel general practitioner surveillance systems, however ILI presentations to emergency departments have increased.
• In recent weeks, notifications have increased most notably in South Australia and Queensland, with some increases also observed in most of the other jurisdictions.
• During this reporting period there were 574 laboratory confirmed notifications of influenza, with Queensland and South Australia reporting the highest number of notifications. The majority of virus detections have been pandemic (H1N1) 2009, with co-circulation of influenza B. The majority of the South Australian notifications this fortnight have been influenza B (85%).There were no detections of influenza A(H3N2) reported this fortnight.

• As at 27 May 2011, there have been 4,492 confirmed cases of influenza reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) in 2011, compared with 967 for the same period in 2010.

FORMER prime minister Bob Hawke is reportedly in hospital with a severe case of pneumonia.

Mr Hawke, 81, was admitted to St Vincent's Private Hospital in Sydney last week, senior health department sources have told The Daily Telegraph.

He is reported to be suffering from a severe case of pneumonia.

However, health department sources said they did not believe his condition was serious.

Friends of Mr Hawke said he had been feeling unwell for a couple of weeks before going into hospital.

Baby saved mum's life
BY ALISON BRANLEY
05 Jul, 2011 04:00 AM
A second wave of swine flu has swept the Hunter and prompted renewed warnings from health authorities.

Hunter New England Health said the annual flu season had started early this year and about 90 per cent of reported influenza cases had been H1N1, otherwise known as swine flu. Both pregnant women and children have already been admitted to intensive care this year with the virus.

Among them was Justine Williamson, of Raworth, who was 38 weeks pregnant when she went into hospital for a scheduled caesarean only to discover she also had swine flu.

‘‘I was lucky they picked it up that day,’’ Mrs Williamson said.

‘‘My son saved my life.’’

Hunter New England Health public health physician David Durrheim said they had recorded 57 confirmed cases of influenza this season and of those tested, most were swine flu.

This compared with five cases this time last year and 150 at the height of the pandemic in 2009.

Dr Durrheim urged vulnerable groups to get a flu shot to vaccinate against all three circulating strains of the flu.

‘‘We have seen a similar pattern with swine flu over the last three years,’’ Dr Durrheim said.

‘‘It really affects pregnant women, small children particularly those with underlying health conditions.

‘‘Aboriginal people have in particular borne the burden of swine flu.’’

Dr Durrheim said he feared some people had become complacent about vaccination after a drop in publicity.

‘‘But there’s still people who are extremely at risk and it’s really important that they get themselves protected,’’ he said.

‘‘Get it as soon as possible because it takes two weeks to build up. This is really the last chance.’’

Mrs Williamson said when she was admitted for her caesarean the only symptom that she was ill was a high temperature.

Nurses picked up the H1N1 post-surgery when she started having breathing difficulties.

Mrs Williamson spent a week in intensive care.

At one stage she had pneumonia in both lungs and five doctors treating her.

‘‘I was very close to having to be put on a ventilator,’’ she said.

Her son Oscar Marley avoided the virus and was given medication when his mother was diagnosed.

Mother and son were released from hospital yesterday