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Three more Britons die after contracting H1N1 flu
• Flu • • Swine Flu • Jul 07 09
Three more Britons including two children have died after contracting the H1N1 flu virus, taking to seven the number of people in Britain who…
Argentines question government as flu spreads
• Flu • • Public Health • Jul 07 09
Argentines are questioning the government’s handling of an H1N1 flu outbreak that has killed 60 people amid confusion over the number of cases and…
Influenza monitoring by the US military
• Flu • • Public Health • Jul 07 09
The recent global swine flu outbreak has underscored the critical need for good surveillance and rapid access to epidemiological data. The US military, starting…
WHO warns swine flu ‘unstoppable’
• Flu • • Swine Flu • Jul 04 09
The UN’s top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide…
New flu may not spread like regular flu: studies
• Flu • Jul 03 09
The new H1N1 influenza strain may be just a little less catching than seasonal flu, but seems a little better able to cause stomach…
Hong Kong finds first case of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1
• Flu • • Swine Flu • Jul 03 09
Hong Kong’s health department said on Friday it had detected a case of human swine influenza virus that was resistant to Tamiflu, the…
Next question in swine flu - who gets vaccinated?
• Flu • • Swine Flu • Jun 22 09
Drug makers are gearing up to make vaccines against the new H1N1 virus, starting test batches and pledging free doses for poor countries.
Governments…
Vaccinate kids to control H1N1 flu - researchers
• Flu • • Swine Flu • Jun 18 09
Targeting children for vaccination may be the best way of using limited supplies of vaccine to control the current H1N1 flu pandemic, British…
Milwaukee Swine Flu Testing Results Published
• Flu • Jun 16 09
Researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee published the first initial paper describing the Milwaukee prevalence of the largest outbreak of novel…
New flu has been around for years in pigs: study
• Flu • • Public Health • Jun 15 09
The new H1N1 virus, which has caused the first pandemic of the 21st century, appears to have been circulating undetected among pigs for years,…
Experts Available to Discuss H1N1 Pandemic
• Flu • Jun 12 09
UMDNJ public health experts are available to discuss the H1N1 pandemic declared earlier today by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Dr. George T.…
Flu pandemic? U.S. has been there for weeks
• Flu • • Public Health • Jun 12 09
The World Health Organization may have just declared a pandemic of the H1N1 flu virus, but the United States has been acting as if…
WHO declares first 21st century flu pandemic
• Flu • • Public Health • Jun 12 09
The World Health Organisation declared an influenza pandemic on Thursday and called on governments to prepare for a long-term battle against an unstoppable flu…
U.S. has 20 deaths from new flu strain
• Flu • Jun 04 09
U.S. health officials have confirmed 20 deaths from the new strain of H1N1 flu, with more than 11,000 confirmed or probable cases.
Three U.S.…
H1N1 flu cases and death toll rise: WHO
• Flu • • Swine Flu • May 14 09
The number of confirmed cases of the new influenza A (H1N1) has climbed to 6,497, including 65 deaths, the World Health Organisation said on…
Mexico flu slowing, death toll not over 100
• Flu • • Swine Flu • May 14 09
The H1N1 flu virus is making fewer people in Mexico sick and will likely cause no more than 100 deaths in the country, Health…
Fewer than one third in US would get swine flu jab
• Flu • • Swine Flu • May 14 09
Fewer than one third of U.S. adults would get a shot especially made to protect against the new H1N1 swine flu virus, according…
Mexican H1N1 flu spreads easily: study
• Flu • • Swine Flu • May 13 09
The new strain of H1N1 flu that has killed 56 people in Mexico and has been carried around the world by travelers acts more…
Mexico says tourist resorts safe from flu
• Flu • • Swine Flu • May 13 09
Mexico said on Tuesday its beach resorts were safe from the H1N1 flu, as the country struggled to rescue its tourist industry from cancellations…
WHO to weigh flu vaccine switch next week
• Flu • • Swine Flu • May 07 09
World Health Organisation experts will meet next week to consider whether drug makers should switch from seasonal to pandemic flu production in response to…
Is it the flu, or just a sore throat?
• Flu • May 01 09
When Hayden Henshaw came down with a new and worrying kind of influenza last month, he thought he had strep throat.
Henshaw, 18,…
Nasal Flu Vaccine in Kids: One Dose Is Good, but Two Are Better
• Flu • Apr 30 09
For infants and children under age three, one dose of nasal influenza vaccine reduces the risk of getting sick with the flu, but two…
Experts say new drugs needed to fight flu pandemic
• Drug News • • Flu • Feb 27 09
Experts on Friday urged governments on Friday to diversify their stockpiles of drugs and called for more new medicines to fight what could be…
Flu shots lower risk of flu-like illnesses
• Flu • Feb 23 09
Illnesses with symptoms similar to the flu are common in older workers and now new research shows that flu shots appear to halve…
Study calls for increased research in flu transmission to prepare for pandemic flu outbreak
• Flu • • Public Health • Feb 18 09
Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital have completed a study to better understand the impact of infection control measures during a possible flu pandemic.…