A 3-yr old child has been confirmed as Swine flu positive in the Netherlands. She returned from a visit to Mexico on the 27th.

http://www.nu.nl/algemeen/1957170/m...-nederland.html

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Netherlands: New Confirmed Case of Influenza A (H1N1); Travel to Mexico Noted; Total of 3 Confirmed Cases Nationwide.

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'If flu spreads schools will be closed down'

Bilthoven - If the Mexican flu in the Netherlands infects dozens of
people a day, schools will most likely be closed right away.
this said Jim van Steenbergen of the National Health and Environment
(RIVM) on Tuesday. According to Steenbergen particularly children
and young people are vulnerable to the flu virus.

Children have much physical contact and the virus spreads quickly in
this way, he says. Adults work in offices, keep more distance from
each other and infections will spread more slowly , it is expected.

- snip -

http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/...t___.html?p=3,1

In total 6 cases are confirmed, 3 more cases. Looking for more news on it. No reports in the regular media yet.



http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/files/pdf/...515_0800hrs.pdf

Apparently some one made a correction: the PDF document of ECDC is changed.

Number of confirmed patients is changed back to 3.

4th H1N1 patient in the Netherlands

http://www.rivm.nl/cib/themas/nieuw...dex.jsp#index_1


2 juni | Vierde patient met Nieuwe Influenza A (H1N1) in Nederland

Bij een 25-jarige Nederlandse vrouw is Nieuwe Influenza A (H1N1) (voorheen Mexicaanse griep) vastgesteld. Zij vertoont griepverschijnselen en wordt behandeld. De vrouw keerde op 30 mei terug uit New York.Dit is de eerste keer dat een Nederlander de Nieuwe Influenza A (H1N1) buiten Mexico heeft opgelopen. Het RIVM verwacht de komende weken meer terugkerende reizigers met deze griepvariant.

Meer informatie over de Mexicaanse griep

Naar persbericht | Veelgestelde vragen | www.postbus51.nl | 0800-8051

google translated

Another two Dutch infected with swine flu

(Reuters) - Another two Dutch are infected with the Mexican flu. The patients are a 25-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman. That the National Institute for Health and Environment (RIVM) published Thursday.


The two patients were both from the United States, but had no contact with each other. They are treated and it goes well with both, let RIVM know. Close contacts of the two are detected and treated if necessary.

A total of six Dutch people infected with the flu, which officially New Influenza A (H1N1) is called. Last Tuesday, the RIVM announced that a 25-year-old female patient was the fourth Dutch. They just came back from New York and became the first Dutchman to the virus outside of Mexico had been. The RIVM reported when all the coming weeks more repeat travelers expect those infected with the Mexican flu.

Earlier it was already clear that in a 3-year-old child, a 53-year-old woman and a 52-year-old man was infected. They were all in Mexico, and are now restored.

The RIVM advises people after returning from Mexico or the United States within seven days of flu-like symptoms to contact their general practitioner. The doctor then decides in consultation with the health authorities or further research is needed.

Wednesday, the World Health Organization announced that the number of Mexican flu in the world is approaching twenty thousand. The disease has been lit in the top 66 countries certainly. The virus claimed known more than a hundred lives, especially in Mexico.

http://www.trouw.nl/nieuws/nederlan...se_griep. html

Four new cases of swine flu

ANP | Published on 05 June 2009,

Bilthoven --
Again in Dutch that they have the Mexican flu. Four people have the New Influenza A (H1N1). This RIVM published Friday.

Three of the patients had the flu in the United States. A person came from Mexico and the Dominican Republic. The four are under treatment and make it right or to the better hand.

The total number of patients with the Mexican flu in the Netherlands, referring to ten.

http://www.haarlemsdagblad.nl/nieuw...exicaanse_griep

Two more dutch cases, total now at 12. This is only reported on the site of the |RIVM as far as I can see, not in other news media yet (was posted there at 11 AM today).

Can´t find it ?

http://www.rivm.nl/cib/

Dutchy,

In the table 12 cases are acknowledged. In the text 10 are confirmed.

http://www.rivm.nl/cib/themas/nieuw...uenza/index.jsp

That's right, there have been no other reports on this. But I assume that reports on the RIVM site are credible. Maybe there is no newsrelease because it is saturday ?

I really do not know. But sometimes I wonder about the long-winded paths which information flows.

Well, it's 16 now: RIVM.

Mmm..... I must hope RIVM will provide more details tomorrow, f.i. on imported cases vs domestic cases.

Now it is 20 confirmed cases, still no details.

http://www.rivm.nl/cib/themas/nieuw...uenza/index.jsp

First local Swine Flu infections


(Novum) - For the first time people are infected with swine flu in the Netherlands.
.First cases are a child's who was infected by his father and a woman who suffered through
an infected colleague.

There are ten new infections since Friday announced that the counter now
in twenty cases of H1N1 in the Netherlands is.

According to the National Institute for Health and Environment (RIVM), the patients well. They
be treated to the disease.

So far, all Dutch people with the disease were infected with the flu in other countries.
The disease is infectious for humans. Globally, more than a hundred people to the disease
deceased. In the Netherlands the effects of the disease are moderate so far.

http://binnenland.nieuws.nl/558730/...exicaanse_griep

Sorry, google translated

Downplaying


Predicted flu outbreak is no reason to panic

The RIVM predicts a major outbreak of new influenza A (flu Mexican)
in our country. Earlier this week was already known that for the first time in the Netherlands
virus among humans has been transferred. The RIVM think after the first wave of flu
a few months after which it disappears in the autumn will again emerge.

There is no reason for concern , however, emphasizes the institute. The probability that
someone in the Netherlands to the New Influenza A will die is almost nil. There
sufficient virus inhibitors in stock, the Netherlands is well prepared for a
larger outbreak than has been the case.

In total, there are
Currently twenty infections in the Netherlands, all they could Friday
simple home treatment and the first patients are already back
better.

http://www.ziekenhuis.nl/index.php?...ws=item&id=6380

New Influenza A (H1N1) in the Netherlands

Confirmed cases updated on June 10 12:00


Total number of confirmed cases 30

Infected in the Netherlands 6

Total deaths 0

http://www.rivm.nl/cib/themas/nieuw...uenza/index.jsp

New Influenza A (H1N1) in the Netherlands

Confirmed cases updated on June 12


Total number of confirmed cases 43

Infected in the Netherlands 14

Total deaths 0

http://www.rivm.nl/cib/themas/nieuw...uenza/index.jsp

Netherlands: Swine flu at school in North Brabant

Waalre - At an elementary school in the North Brabant Waalre is a child of eight years old infected
with the Mexican flu. This has the RIVM confirmed Friday.

Vaccination

A spokesman for the RIVM said to be aware that some children are
vaccinated at the school. According to RTL, the parents of the children from the class of eight-year
child by the health authorities with a letter informed and all children from the classroom as a precaution
the next ten days, treated with Tamiflu.

Intensive care

In an overview of the number of infections in the Netherlands with the Mexican flu, the RIVM
Friday, June 12 report of an infected patient in the intensive care unit . The number of people
infection with the virus in the world has been located on 29, 14 found the contamination in
Netherlands. Total of 43 patients are 42 recovering or already healed.

"More and more people confirmed positive"

The survey is a snapshot of the reports in the Netherlands as Friday, June 12 to
12.00 is recorded. In the Netherlands are currently 43 confirmed infections with New Influenza
A (H1N1). "The last week will be more people tested positive through contact tracing
of the GGD (Health Service, ed) , "reports the RIVM.

http://www.blikopnieuws.nl/bericht/98351

And that's not all, we got a patient on the intensive care:
Grieppatiënt op intensive care
De Telegraaf - vr 12 jun 2009, 14:28

AMSTERDAM - Een Nederlander met de Mexicaanse griep ligt in het ziekenhuis op de intensive care.

Dit meldt het Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM) vrijdag aan De Pers. Het is de eerste keer dat iemand met Mexicaanse griep in Nederland op de intensive care terechtkomt.

De identiteit van de grieppatiënt is nog niet bekend. Ook is niet duidelijk in welk ziekenhuis hij of zij ligt.

That is: we don't know sh!t about who, male or female, age or 'underlying health issues'.

RIVM: Confirmed 51 (43) - infected locally 19 (14) - deaths 0

The guy on the ic is a bank employee in Groningen.

1 hour ago, Dutch Radio, Dr Coetinho, director of RIVM:

number of confirmed cases as of last night: 61 .

Situation of the young man in ICU is stable.

Netherlands: "we expect a CFR 5 to 10 times higher than normal flu" , in case of a major outbreak of A/H1N1.

This was said by Roel Coetinho, director of RIVM, this morning on Dutch Radio.

CFR of seasonal flu in the Netherlands is 1 or 2 per thousand cases.

New Influenza A (H1N1) in the Netherlands

Confirmed cases updated on June 15


Total number of confirmed cases 61

Infected in the Netherlands 28

Currently in ICU 1

Total deaths 0



http://www.rivm.nl/cib/themas/nieuw...uenza/index.jsp

I wonder why he expects that. Nothing in outbreaks elsewhere would predict such a high CFR... unless he means that he expects a mutation toward higher virulence, or he believes the R0 has been exceptionally low everywhere so far?


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"Many deaths from the flu '

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 | 03:19 | Last updated: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 | 09:17

ENSCHEDE - The Swine flu could cause five to ten times more deaths
than an ordinary flu wave. According to the National Institute for Health and Environment (RIVM) can
the death toll to rise to 4000 to 8000. One in three Dutch can get the flu.


According to the Ministry of Health outlines the RIVM 'the ultimate doomsday scenario. " This is only if the virus mutates. "


People who were born in 1957, seem immune to the H1N1 virus. According to Prof. Dr. Roel
Of the RIVM Coutinho, it seems that until 1957 a similar virus by our country and that attracted
Dutch by birth, that natural resistance.


The RIVM does not rule out that schools should close to prevent proliferation. Coutinho "
Children are there close together, there is coughing and sneezing. "The Margrietschool in Woerden
advised a group of parents yesterday to keep their children home after a father and a
students were infected. They made a trip to a petting zoo.

http://www.tctubantia.nl/regio/twen...or-de-griep.ece


"In a normal flu season 500 to 800 people die"

RIVM (= Dutch CDC)

http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland...omt_na_de_zomer

If this is true, the CFR would be between 0.74 and 1.47 a thousand.

Well it is total bullshit.

The current cfr is (WHO numbers) about half a percent, while regular flu takes about half that number.

On average 1000 to 2000 people die each year of seasonal flu in the Netherlands (RIVM numbers).

With the same number of infections that would mean about twice as much will die of the new virus.

But will the number of infections be the same? Of course not.

With a tenfold increase of infections, and the current cfr, we would have 20.000 to 40.000 deaths the coming season.

The cfr of the Spanish flu however, was 2.5 to 5 percent.

So the ministry of Health is talking total bullshit.

total number of cases 68

http://www.rivm.nl/cib/themas/nieuw...uenza/index.jsp

New Influenza A (H1N1) in the Netherlands

Confirmed cases updated on June 17


Total number of confirmed cases 83

Infected in the Netherlands 38

Currently in ICU 0

Total deaths 0



http://www.rivm.nl/cib/themas/nieuw...uenza/index.jsp

New Influenza A (H1N1) in the Netherlands

Confirmed cases updated on June 19


Total number of confirmed cases 91

Infected in the Netherlands 43

Currently in ICU 1

Total deaths 0



http://www.rivm.nl/cib/themas/nieuw...uenza/index.jsp

New Influenza A (H1N1) in the Netherlands

Confirmed cases updated on June 21


Total number of confirmed cases 102

Infected in the Netherlands 47

Currently in ICU 1

Total deaths 0



http://www.rivm.nl/cib/themas/nieuw...uenza/index.jsp

New Influenza A (H1N1) in the Netherlands

Confirmed cases updated on June 22


Total number of confirmed cases 105

Infected in the Netherlands 47

Currently in ICU 1

Total deaths 0



http://www.rivm.nl/cib/themas/nieuw...uenza/index.jsp

New Influenza A (H1N1) in the Netherlands

Confirmed cases updated on June 23


Total number of confirmed cases 110

Infected in the Netherlands 51

Currently in ICU 1

Total deaths 0



http://www.rivm.nl/cib/themas/nieuw...uenza/index.jsp

New Influenza A (H1N1) in the Netherlands

Confirmed cases updated on June 24


Total number of confirmed cases 112


Infected in the Netherlands 51


Currently in ICU 1


Total deaths 0



http://www.rivm.nl/cib/themas/nieuw...uenza/index.jsp