JUMP IN GLOBAL SWINE FLU DEATHS

The virus was first recorded in Mexico

The global number of swine flu deaths has jumped by more than 1,000 in a week, latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) show.



At least 7,826 people are now known to have died following infection with the H1N1 virus since it first emerged in Mexico in April.



Europe saw an 85% increase in the week, with the total number of deaths rising from at least 350 to at least 650.



However, in most cases the virus continues to produce mild symptoms.





If every mutation is reported out there it would be like reporting changes in the weather



Keiji Fukuda

WHO special adviser on pandemic influenza

An overwhelming majority of patients usually recover, even without medical treatment, within a week.



The biggest rise in deaths was recorded in the Americas, where the death toll rose to 5,360 - a rise of 554 cases in one week.



Health authorities in Norway and France have each recorded two fatalities from a mutated strain of H1N1.



China, Japan, Norway, Ukraine and the US have also recorded cases of people being infected with a mutated strain.



Uncertainty



French health officials confirmed that two patients infected by a mutation that was also recently detected in Norway had died in two different cities in France.





SWINE FLU SYMPTOMS



1. High temperature, tiredness and lowered immunity

2. Headache, runny nose and sneezing

3. Sore throat

4. Shortness of breath

5. Loss of appetite, vomiting and diarrhoea

6. Aching muscles, limb and joint pain

Source: NHS

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"This mutation could increase the ability of the virus to affect the respiratory tracts and, in particular, the lung tissue," said a statement from the government's Health Surveillance Institute.



The French institute added that, in the case of one of the patients who died, the mutation was accompanied by another mutation known to confer resistance to the main drug being used to treat swine flu, which is sold under the brand name Tamiflu.



It was the first drug-resistant strain found in France among the 1,200 strains experts have analysed here, it said.



Speaking on Thursday, Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's special adviser on pandemic influenza, said that conclusions had still to be drawn about the reported mutations.



"The question is whether these mutations suggest that there is a fundamental change going on in viruses out there - whether there's a turn for the worse in terms of severity," he said.



"The answer right now is that we are not sure."



Dr Fukuda noted that mutations were common in influenza viruses.



"If every mutation is reported out there it would be like reporting changes in the weather," he said.



"What we're trying to do when we see reports of mutations is to identify if these mutations are leading to any kinds of changes in the clinical picture - do they cause more severe or less severe disease?



"Also we're trying to see if these viruses are increasing out there as that would suggest a change in epidemiology."



In his latest survey of swine flu developments, the WHO notes that many countries have stopped counting individual cases of swine flu, particularly of milder illness, and the case count is likely to be significantly lower than the actual number of cases that have occurred.

A YOUNGMAN KILLS HIS COMRADE DURING A GAMBLING GAME IN KERICHO , KENYA .

A young man killed his comrade after they disagreed against each other during a gambling game in Nyagacho estate in Kericho town. The young man then rushed to the Nyagacho police station where he made a report of the incident .He wasn’t put into police custody as the procedures always work ,instead he was allowed to walk away back home as a free man while the police continued with investigations in to the case.






Eye witnesses who were present at the scene of the incident when it started told us that the two had disagreed on who was the winner during the game and therefore each one of them ended up defending the money that they had betted on and the one that claimed to have won and wanted to take all the money that was being played for was forced to use force .He tried to stab the one who was defending himself against his money being taken but he blocked the hand that had the knife and the hand flew towards the wrong direction and got a stander by and killed him .The matter was then left in to the hands of the police from there.

SHOE MAKEKENYAR SUES HIS WIFE IN COURT FOR BEING DRUNK IN THE HOME IN KERICHO .

SHOE MAKEKENYAR SUES HIS WIFE IN COURT FOR BEING DRUNK IN THE HOME IN KERICHO ,








A shoe maker in Kericho town did a rare thing when he took his wife to the police and sued her for being drank .The police were forced to carry out their work according rules and procedures and ethics of their work and took the mans wife and locked her in to a cell and the following morning, they took her to court and sued her according to her husband complaints .The woman was put in jail for two and a half weeks after which she was released.







It was said that trouble started when the woman gave her baby to her husband to take care of her while she went to the evening market on the road side to fetch for foodstuffs for dinner .The woman went beyond the market place and when she came back ,she was very high and too late .when she got home ,her husband tried to question her but she didn’t like it and so ,he told her to lead the way to the police station .He told her that he was going to sue her for what she had done .Leaving him with the baby for along period of time while she went to drink yet he was against drinking and for cheating him that she was going to the market place while she went the alcohol selling dens to drink .So ,the man decided that ,that was the best option amongst all options and he threw her behind the bars for two and a half weeks as punishment for bad behavior in the home.







During the period when his wife was in jail, the man was ambushed and robbed of his identification documents, two thousand shillings in cash plus other valuable things that were on him at that time that he could not even remember. This happened to him At Five o’clock in the morning as he was going to his shoe making business ,just after he had finished his night duties at the guest house.







The man runs his shoe making business out side the Bureti Butchery ,the one that is beside the former famous Snow day and Night Club at the Kenya co-operative creameries Depot round about ,and in the evenings ,he goes and guards the former United States Of America Embassy offices that were later turned in to a guest house .

BODY BUILDING CHAMPION ON THE STREETS OF KERICHO TOWN .

The body building champion of the Mr and Miss Kericho youth center this year was seen on the streets of the town charting with friends and fans .when we asked him whether there was an activity in the town or any where in the surroundings, he said there wasn’t and that he had come to the town to visit his folks .The event usually happens early in the beginning of the year and is organized by the Kericho youth center which is an arm of the Walter reed clinical research center

KERICHO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE DOING MARVELOUSLY WELL

The Kericho technical institute has shown all the signs of a good institution .The institution has grown rapidly and recently, they opened there new classes in the go down areas of kericho town.

The staff of the institution recently released the institutes results of their most recent exams and they showed a very good performance .The school does KNEC Exams and ,the report says that they got twenty six distinctions ,thirty eight credits and twenty six passes Which the staff say was a very good performance.

THE SAINT PURAN SIGH UNIVERSITY ANNOUCES THE INTRODUCTION OF FRENCH COURSES ON ITS CAMPUS--KERICHO

The NSPSI university of Kericho has announced the introduction of French language classes on its campus for French speaking people .The classes will involve French speakers of all levels .from primary ,secondary to ‘O’ level leavers and adults. The classes are scheduled to begin on the thirtieth date of the month of November the year two thousand and nine .The fees for the courses were said to be lower for the lower levels ,that is primary and secondary but a little higher for the adults whose courses were said to be more intensive than the lower levels .The courses were said to cost only a thousand and five hundred Kenyan shillings for the lower levels .The fees for the adults were not stated but it is expected to be higher.

The institution is in Kericho town is sponsored by the Sikh religion.

THESE HUMAN ERRORS COULD CAUSE THE EXTINCTION OF LIFE ON THIS PLANET ONE TIME

The other time i  bought a pen from a hawker .It was a black pen ,the AIHAO brand of pens .I the went on to use the pen .when it was used halfway ,the pen changed colour from black to blue .Then i remained wondering what might have happened to the pen .I thought that this pens were computer ink filled in the factories ,and now this one had two different colours in it,black and blue and ,it was an imported pen from china imagine .This human errors will one time cause distinction to mankind .Firs it was the chinese milk that was poisoned due the same reason and now it is a pen ,next it could be something bigger ,perhaps the nuclear missiles will start flying by themeselves in to the air and kill all human beings .You can't blame the hawker boy ,he doesn't even have the knowledge of how to start it Or could there be something going o behind the streets?

KNUT CLOSES CLOSES IT”S OFFICES COUNTRYWIDE AGAIN

The Kenya national union of teacher’s has closed its offices again until next year when schools will be re-opening again. This is according to a word from the Kericho branch of the union .The staff at the branch’s offices said that there will be no activity in their offices countrywide until in January when the schools reopen again.

It was said that it is usual for the union to close its offices at such time and re -open when schools open in the beginning of the other year. The union closes its offices countrywide.

MISS KERICHO BEAUITY CONTEST

The Walter reed clinical research center will be hosting another beauty contest by the end of the month of november on the thirtieth date.The contest will be titled MIss Kericho beauty contest and will be held at the Kericho primary school hall .
The vent will start at two o'clock in the afternoon and go on up to six in the evening .
The contest i said to be part of the world aids day celebrations and entrance for the oparticipants will be free.
Registartion of participants will be going on at the beauty palace that is siyuated at the Kericho posta plaza.
Conditions for entry are:
1.you must be of eighteen years of age
2.yous be ready to be an ambassador in the fight against the disease HIV/AIDS.

Everyone is invited .Entry for fans will be free

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF KERICHO MARKING THE STREETS IN THE TOWN

 


The Kericho municipal council is marking all the streets and roads in the town .This is intended at helping the traffic to watch and stick to the Highway Code.

The council’s roads and streets had become very bad with some of them not having lights and others with pot hole almost a foot deep. It is the repairs that were done to them during the preparations for the Kenya all municipalities cultural and sports organization events that were held here in this town; otherwise they had become very bad.

HEALTH OFFICERS CRACK DOWN ON THOSE WITH POOOR LIVING HABITS –KERICHO, KENYA

Health officers in Kericho town have started an operation aginst poor living habits in the living areas of the town. All the people who will be found with such habits that cause disease outbreaks will be arrested and charged in the court of law and, their facilities will be closed until after they will have done reasonable maintenance works on them and the health officers will have proved them worthwhile for human use.

The facilities that were top on the lists were the toilets, sewage drainage systems and house hold waste disposal systems .Without all these, the plots were expected to be closed or if it were for the toilets, they were going to be closed until the health officers personally authorized them to be opened.

Up to the fourteenth date of the month of November, they were reported to have started their raids in some parts of the Nyagacho living areas of the town.

KERICHO STREETS ARE BEING PAINTEDTO HELP THE PUBLIC TO STICK TO THE HIGHWAY CODE

The Mayor of Kericho town now has decided to paint the roads and streets in the town .For along time ,he hasn'nt been able to discover that the streets needed painting to help the public to keep the highway code .Whatever brought him back to this earth from where he had gone so that he couldn't know that we needed what he is now doing badly!!
May the same please tell him that we still need so much from him .We need a public water tap in the Uhuru Gardens and moi parks in the town ,we neeed houses ,we need so much more Mr. Mayor .hjank you very much for coming back to life!!

Threats on post eELECTIONS VIOLENCE WITNESSES LIVES-NAIROBI,KENYA

The rumors in the nairobi star newspaper are reaally scaring .It is being said that those politicians who are on the said waki list have taken to a new technique of getting rid of any evidence against them that may be existing.They have decided to hunt and kill the witnesses .
the star newspaper of 13/11/009

Threats on post eELECTIONS VIOLENCE WITNESSES LIVES-NAIROBI,KENYA

The rumors in the nairobi star newspaper are reaally scaring .It is being said that those politicians who are on the said waki list have taken to a new technique of getting rid of any evidence against them that may be existing.They have decided to hunt and kill the witnesses .
the star newspaper of 13/11/009

BOY OF UNDER TEN YEARS SUES HIS MOTHER FOR MISTREATMENT, KERICHO , KENYA

BOY OF UNDER TEN YEARS SUES HIS MOTHER FOR MISTREATMENT, KERICHO , KENYA








A young boy of under ten years of age stunned the residents of Mombassa ndogo estate in kericho town when he decided to go and seek for justice between him and his mother in side their home .The mother had badly injured the young boy when she was trying to punish him for not managing the home the way she had ordered him .she hit the boy between the left eye and the nose which lead the boy to bleed profusely.







This took place in the second week of the month of June and up to the moment ,the police of the Nyagacho police station are still looking for her .It is not clearly known where she went but rumor has it that she might have run away to avoid arrest by the law and justice keepers of the country.







The mother is said to have given her boy guidelines on what to do in the home during the day, but the boy failed to go by this guidelines which then lead to the brawl between the two to decide who should rule the home .The brawl went far than they expected and the mother, who is of Kamba origin and who is also the sole bread earner of the family, Found herself in trouble with the law of the country in her own home.







It looks like the Governments efforts to educate the people about the rights of children is bearing fruits .The boy was too young to know about his own rights in the home but believe or not, he went for justice and he got it .He managed to dislodge his parent in their home and now she lives in exile in unknown places in this country .The Kenya police stood firm by the boys side.

A TEACHER AT THE HIGHLANDS PRIMARY SCHOOL IN KERICHO TOWN DIES

A teacher at the highlands primary school in Kericho town has passed away.The teacher ,Mr.wilfred Ombati Kerera passed away after a short illnes that took him only two days .HIs body was removed from the siloam hospital mortuary on the twelfth date of the month of novemeber this year and taken to his home for the remaining part of the funeral procedures before his burial.

We weren't able to know the cause of his death by the time we were talking to some of his family memebrs .They were too busy with the preparations for the funeral.
One of Mr. wilfreds' students , a six year old boy who is a friend of ours sounded the alarm of the death of his teacher to us in a way the sent us running very fast to find out what really had happened to the teacher .The boy told us that the tecaher had just prepared a cup of tea and immidiately he had finished drinking it ,he collapsed and died .It is very sorry that the family wasn't in the mood to clarify the situation to us by the time we were talking to them .

WHERE DID THE PROJECTS THAT ARAP MOI USED TO SING ABOUT GO?

Our country Kenya,during the reign of the retired president Daniel Toroittich Arap Moi ,ran many big projects ,one of them being the bulding of the bio gas manufacturing plants to provide bio gas as an alternative fuel for use in the homes .Then another one was the BUilding of a kenyan wholy built or produced automible ,the one that was named uhuru and many more .Others that we can remember and others we can'tremember .
Where on this earth did all this projects go ?We can't see any of them any more .There are no Uhuru cars and no bio cars to use in the Kitchemns or for lighting the lamps .JUst what happened to all the projects that the former president used to sing about each and every day of his time in office?

A CAR CALLED VAMPIRE CREW IN KERICHO TOWN,KENYA.

There were this friends of mine who always  drove around the town proudly with the names VAMPIRE CREW on their car .I wonder whether they knew what they were doing because vampires ,in the african communities ,are bad beings .They are not wanted because thney are hostile and eat fellow human beaings and are nocturnal.They only walk in the nightsb because if they walk inb the day ,they will burst in to flames and burn and die due to the sunlight .so what we are wondering about is that ,are this fiends of ours Vampires really or ,perhaps they didn't know what they were doing .They really scare us ,we africans that is ,if they don't know .
Vampires,God save my soul !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT KIND OF DOCTOR IS DR. HAJJ JUMA ?

There was this doctor who was having  a talk with the people at the town center in kericho recently ,is he a nutritionist ,a herbalist ,aspiritualist or what kind of doctor is he ?The man really scares the hell out o peoples' hearts .He has good talk about the diet .He said his name is Bwana hajj juma from mommbasa ,a doctor of Giriama origin here in Kenya.

RUMORS:UCHUMI SUPERMARKET COMES TO KERICHO

It is being said that the building that neighbors the total petrol stattion in Kericho town will become the Uchumi supermarkets branch in Kericho town.We were'nt able to get any of their staff memebrs to tell us more about this rumor but we contacted  a guard at the construction site and he confirmed that it was true and the the supermarket could be openinng any time fron the twelfth date of the month of december the year two thousand and nine.
UChumi supermarket will be coming to Kericho!

MAN FOUND DEAD IN HIS HOUSE IN KERICHO , KENYA

The residents of Mombassa ndogo estate in the Nyagacho residential areas of Kericho town were yesterday, the fourth date of the month of November the year two thousand and nine, Stunned when they found a man who lived in the same estate dead in his house. The man who lived alone in his house never left any clues of what could have been happening been to him behind, the were no signs of struggles to show that he was attacked by someone .He probably must have died in his sleep.  

He never complained to his neighbors    of anything, sickness or any one hunting for his life or any misunderstandings with any one but on the said morning the man was found dead in his bed.

The man is of Luhya origin, a maragoli