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?