今天smh的头条新闻, 好可怕啊.....
Swine flu attacking mothers, newborns
Kate Benson and Alexandra Smith
July 16, 2009
UP TO six new mothers infected with swine flu are on life support after giving birth prematurely because the virus was threatening the lives of their babies.
The women, all from the western suburbs of Sydney, are fighting for their lives in four hospitals, and at least two of the babies are also in intensive care because they were born with respiratory problems.
"This situation has become very, very grave," a midwife said.
Another two pregnant women were in intensive care at Westmead Hospital but were yet to give birth. Staff were trying to manage their conditions without inducing labour, said Brian Trudinger, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Westmead Hospital.
"Usually we don't have any pregnant women in ICU with influenza so this is worrying," he said.
Swine flu can pass to a foetus through infected membranes in the placenta or can cause a baby to overheat if the mother is febrile. Pregnancy reduces a woman's immunity, and her capacity to breathe properly due to compression on her lungs from the foetus.
Main arteries are also compressed by the baby when a pregnant woman is lying on her back, making it difficult to intubate and ventilate, the president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Ted Weaver, said yesterday.
More than 420 people have been admitted to hospital with swine flu in the past six weeks. Thirty two are in intensive care and seven are being treated using cardiac bypass machines.
One fit, healthy man in his 30s, from the south-west, awoke yesterday from a 10-day coma after doctors initially sent him home with instructions to take paracetamol. His family does not want him identified but told the Herald his mother "could not stop crying" and was demanding that swine flu not be dismissed as normal by authorities.
The man was now conscious but felt suicidal, the friend said. He was in a lot of pain and felt like he had already died, she said. "This is absolutely no longer a mild flu. It is eating healthy young people's lives."
A surge in the number of people presenting at hospitals with swine flu had also forced some elderly patients to wait more than 24 hours on ambulance stretchers.
Up to 10 patients were waiting for hours on stretchers at Blacktown, Nepean and Westmead hospitals, taking paramedics off the road because they have to stay with the patient until a bed is available.
The worst day was June 28, when 30 per cent more patients than a typical winter Sunday turned up at Blacktown's emergency department, including a patient who remained on a stretcher for more than 24 hours.
The acting chief executive of Sydney West Area Health Service, Bernard Deady, said 20,500 patients were treated last month, up 9 per cent on June last year.
The Opposition's health spokeswoman, Jillian Skinner, said the Government should not blame swine flu. "Responsibility for the access block crisis currently plaguing our hospital system falls squarely on the State Labor Government because it's closed hospital beds - it's as simple as that," she said.
Most of those becoming infected are young and healthy, prompting doctors to blame a condition called cytokine storm, where a vigorous immune system can overreact to certain pathogens, racing so many antibodies to the infection site that they collect together damaging healthy tissue.
When that storm occurs in the lungs, it can block airways and prevent oxygen getting into the blood supply.
John Graham, the chairman of the department of medicine at the Sydney Hospital, attended autopsies of people who died from the Hong Kong flu in 1970 and found their lungs had become "solid with blood-tinged watery immune secretions that filled every alveolus and every air pipe within the lungs".
"There was no evidence of any superimposed infection with a bacteria. It certainly did appear that they were drowning in their own overproduction of immune juices," he said.
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/ ... -20090715-dlly.html
上帝保佑!!菩萨保佑!!
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我都在考虑是不是要回国生了..按现在这种情况看, 国内的条件好像比这里还好点吧. 流感也没这么多... 不知道我是PR, 老公是citizen, 回国生孩子要准生证吗? 小孩能直接领澳洲护照吗....
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Worring, i still have 5 months to go before the due day.
The Reese goverment is gone for sure in next election!!!
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镇定一下~~
我还有一个月就生了~~~
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注意保暖，保重自己，尽量不要去人多的地方，不单是孕妇，家里人也一样，减低受感染的可能性
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What can we do??? The government doesn't do anything.
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机场、飞机算是高危地带吧，不值得冒险
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太可怕了。觉得很奇怪的是，维州感染猪流感的更多，怎么还没有听到这类恐怖的病例。
难道病毒在悉尼变异？还是维州政府隐瞒这些病例
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刚看新闻，说卫生部长预计最坏情况会有6000人死于猪流感，目前已经有23人死亡，
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没隐瞒， 不报到而已。
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Pregnant women are among those fighting for their lives after contracting swine flu.
Health authorities in New South Wales are now urging expectant mothers to take extra care - and go to their doctors early if they have flu symptoms.
Three pregnant swine flu patients in New South Wales are in intensive care.
Two women with swine flu have given birth prematurely, one of those patients is also in intensive care.
Dr Jeremy McAnulty from NSW Health says the outbreak may seem alarming, but is within the range of what was expected by health experts.
"Because there's a lack of immunity in the community to this particular strain of influenza that would expect to see more people coming down with it," he said.
Dr McAnulty says the peak of the outbreak is yet to come.
"We do expect influenza to go on throughout winter," he said.
Health Authorities says people who are sick should stay at home, and good hygiene practices should be followed in public spaces.
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我觉得澳洲政府没有采取什么有效的措施来预防/改善猪流感可能会带来的后果
孕妇或是家里有new born baby的妈妈们还是自己小心， 尽量减少不必要的外出吧
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我还有三个月呢
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少接触。也要放轻松，休息好才能身体好。
还有说孕妇的免疫力比平时好呢，我当时就觉得比平时健康呢，可能是注意的多了
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我当时也觉得身体好的不行。哈
不过心情好才是最重要的， 别到时候流感没得到，却把坏心情传给了孩子那才的不偿失呢
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要准生证，至少当时我在北京生的时候要。那个街道办是处的人还说，你看你这都怀上了，才来办，照说是不合理的。应该生之前就办。我就给你办了吧。。
我K，这年头，我生个孩子都没权利了。
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快两个月前，我还有宝宝的时候问GP，GP还笑我太小心。。说flu 两个月就会gone。
这都马上两个月了，都什么样了。。
虽然现在自己不高危了，，但是严重祝福那些孕妈妈们！！！
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新生儿怎么办阿...那些医院护士不会得了还去上班吧....
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我前2天发贴子问准妈妈和新妈妈门去公共场合是否带口罩,好象大家都不是很在意的样子啊
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前天去看ＧＰ，聊天的时候听他讲，他的病患里有两个人已被确认为swine flu，其中一个还是小孩子。
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我觉得旋版说的有道理, 澳洲政府根本没有采取什么积极有效地救治或是预防措施, 让大家自己保重,而那些确症的或疑似病例就让人家自己回家隔离,休息. 天知道这些人回不回跑出来购物,吃饭呢? 真的挺可怕的. 还是中国政府强大啊, 发现一个关一个...看来我们只能自己保重自己了, take great care!
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现在这种情况下, 你们还在外面的中餐馆吃饭吗?? 我平时每周都在餐馆吃一两次, 现在有点担心 ...
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谁为这６０００人的生命负责?交了一辈子的税,真正需要救命的时候就对纳税人不闻不问,任其自生自灭...
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死于swine flu 的人都是有慢性疾病的高危险的病人，我不觉得政府对这些人不闻不问,任其自生自灭。如果你属于高危险群，那么就要特别小心，尽量不要去人多的地方，注意个人卫生，勤洗手，如果出现感冒症状，立即去看医生。
swine flu 是通过接触传染的，不是通过空气传染，只有和患者近距离接触才有可能传染上。
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我现在已经不敢去外边吃饭了，每天只好自己做！好恐怖哦！～
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