Norway: Two more with the mutated virus

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Variant of swine influenza specifically attack the lung with young children
2009-12-05
Visit to the United States is Hong Kong's Research Hospital in St. Zhu De, Department of infectious diseases, virologists Weishi Bo (Webster), Professor said that the U.S. is now the second wave of swine influenza in the fall period,....

Weishi Bo also said that Norway discovered variant of swine flu, the global Nianer 200 cases have been found, because of its viral proteins, the regional variations in the H22, so that variants of swine influenza on children under ten or highly lethal, the virus can penetrate the lungs in patients with , resulting in two deaths in Norway, the deceased black lung, such as coke.
http://pandemicinformationnews.blogspot.com/2009/12/variant-of-swine-influenza-specifically.html

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Monday, November 23, 2009
Health Authorities Examine Reports Of Mutated H1N1
Samples of the H1N1 virus obtained by two patients who had died from the disease in Norway contained a mutated form of the virus, the WHO said Friday, Agence France-Presse reports. Health authorities also detected the mutated form of the virus in a third Norwegian patient with severe symptoms of the flu. "However, [the WHO] stressed that the mutation did not appear to cause a more contagious or more dangerous form of A(H1N1) influenza and that some similar cases observed elsewhere had been mild," the news service writes (11/21).
http://pandemicinformationnews.blogspot.com/2009/11/h1n1-spreading-eastward-who-says.html

05.12.09

Health authorities have found two more cases of mutated swine influenza virus in Norway. Now it turns out that up to six - not three - of the dead were outside the risk groups.

Thus, it found a total of five cases of what is internationally referred to as the Norwegian mutation. The last two people who have developed the mutation, have not had any contact with each other and not with the other three.

Preliminary test.
"It suggests that there is more sporadic cases, and that the mutated virus has not spread, but that the mutation has occurred at the individual," says physician Bjørn Iversen at the NIPH.

He points out that the last two mutations are not finally confirmed, but preliminary tests indicate that it is the same mutation. The mutated virus has the ability to attach themselves very far into the lungs and cause pneumonia. Because pneumonia is caused by viruses, not bacteria, it can not be treated with antibiotics.
At the mutated virus attaches itself so far down, probably reduces the risk that it infects others.

Health authorities do not know why the virus has mutated in just these five people.
-There is probably a pure coincidence, but in general we can say that the longer a person is influensasyk, the greater risk is that the virus muterer, explains Iversen.
hat-tip Treyfish