Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy NBC Nightly News features Children’s in a story about how hospitals are keeping up with treating H1N1. Below, check out more footage of Patty Dauksevicz, RN, discussing how Children’s Emergency Department has seen a 50 percent increase in patients due to H1N1. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Related posts:Tracking H1N1 in the digital ageNo one’s worried about H1N1?H1N1 (swine flu) weekly highlights: August 21 to 27 (Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston) [...more]
Conclusions. A novel H1N1 influenza A virus caused a significant outbreak among military beneficiaries in San Diego County, including a significant cluster of cases onboard a Navy ship. The outbreak described here primarily affected adolescents and young adults and resulted in a febrile illness without sequelae [...more]
Small businesses play a key role in protecting employees’ health and safety as well as limiting the impact to the economy and society during an influenza pandemic. Advance planning for pandemic influenza, a novel infectious disease that could occur in varying levels of severity, is critical. Companies that provide critical services, such as power and telecommunications, have a special responsibility to their community to plan for continued operations in a pandemic and should plan accordingly. [...more]
The debate over health care reform rages on, and investors question whether the economy really is recovering...I'm Marisa Bramwell and here's the Evening Editorial note from the ABC News Desk: HEALTH CARE DEBATE: The debate on how to best fix... [...more]
Angry scenes have been reported at Cairo airport as security forces barred Muslim pilgrims from travelling to Mecca because of fears over swine flu .Hundreds staged a sit-in on Sunday when the Egyptian authorities implemented a plan to ... [...more]
Swine flu has been confirmed as the cause of death for one person in Otago and two in Southland, Dunedin coroner David Crerar says. Mr Crerar would not give any further details about the deaths or say where they occurred, but one was an ... [...more]
The majority of swine flu vaccine will be the adjuvant version manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, which contains 4mcg of antigen. The second type, manufactured by Baxter, is a whole virus vaccine containing 7.5mcg of antigen. [...more]
LONDON -- Since swine flu first emerged in April, it has sparked panic, vaccine production and now, a video game. Monday, August 17, 2009. [...more]
Six-month swine flu pandemic could cost economy £60bn and hit the UK just as recovery starts, says Oxford Economics A six-month swine flu pandemic in the UK could cost the economy about £60bn and extend the recession by around two years, an economic thinktank warned today. Oxford Economics said a pandemic was likely to hit the UK just as its starts to recover from recession and could result in the credit crunch being much worse that it would otherwise have been, tipping the economy into deflation. The thinktank predicted that a severe pandemic could cut gross domestic product by 5%, with the economy shrinking by about 7.5% next year and enduring 1% deflation throughout 2010-12. It said a pandemic would lead UK consumers to save more and spend less. The report concluded: "There is a significant risk that the pandemic triggers a set of unfavourable behavioural changes that tip it into deflation. A flu outbreak in the autumn would hit just as the economy starts to recover from the credit crunch. It would threaten already fragile businesses and put further strains on financial markets and fiscal balances. "This could generate a vicious cycle that postpones the recovery for another couple of years [...more]
Swine - flu shots worse than the flu itself. This is all timed to happen at about the same time the economy is supposed to really start to tank. Keeping boobus frightened to go outside may be a good deterrent to riots and revolution, no? ... [...more]
