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Influenza Report, a medical textbook on influenza and its treatment (PDF, 225 pp, free download). H1N1 Timeline Findings and Recommendations 21 May Pandemics: avoiding the mistakes of 1918 "In the next influenza pandemic, be it now or in the future, be the virus mild or virulent, the single most important weapon against the disease will be a vaccine. The second most important will be communication. History has shown that to cut vaccine production time, minimize economic and social disruption, deliver health care and even food, governments need to communicate well - both between themselves and with the public." Nature 20 May USA As of 20 May 2009, 16:30 AM ET, 48 states of the United States have reported a total of 5.710 confirmed cases including 247 hospitalizations and 8 deaths. Median age: 17 years, range 1 month-87 years Gender: 51% female, 49% male Underlying medical conditions (n=44): 63% (median age: 18 years) Median time from illness onset to hospital admission (n=32): 4 days (range: 1-13 days) Median length of hospital stay (n=32): 5 days (range 2-31) PAHO 18 May Hospitalized Patients with Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection --- California, April--May, 2009 "This preliminary overview indicates that, although the majority of hospitalized persons infected with novel influenza A (H1N1) recovered without complications, certain patients had severe and prolonged disease. All hospitalized patients with novel influenza A (H1N1) infection should be monitored carefully and treated with antiviral therapy, including patients who seek care >48 hours after illness onset." MMWR >>> Previous entries

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The Authors

Georg Behrens
Department Internal Medicine, Medical School Hanover, Germany

René Gottschalk
Department of Infection Control, Frankfurt, Germany

Lutz Gürtler
Institute for Medical Microbiology, Greifswald, Germany

Timm Harder
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Diagnostic Virology, OIE and National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

Christian Hoffmann
ifi Institute, Hamburg, Germany

Bernd Sebastian Kamps
Amedeo, Paris, France

Stephen Korsman
Medical Virology, Tygerberg NHLS, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Gustavo Reyes-Terán
CIENI-INER, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Clínica de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas, Mexico, D. F.

Matthias Stoll
Clinical Immunology, Medical School Hanover, Germany

Ortrud Werner
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Diagnostic Virology, OIE and National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

Gert van Zyl
Medical Virology, Tygerberg NHLS, Stellenbosch University, South Africa