First, people were clamoring for H1N1 vaccines, but there were not enough to go around. By the time vaccines were available in any quantity, most of the public had lost interest. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources. [...more]
The biggest problem we on the front line have had is that swine flu has only ever been a mild illness. (Source: Pulse Today Clinical Updates) [...more]
This collection of animal disease information sheets (including zoonoses) have been prepared for the general public by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). These “questions and answers” sheets provide an overview on some major OIE listed diseases, and diseases covered include avian influenza, anthrax, African swine fever, brucellosis, bluetongue, BSE, bovine tuberculosis, classical swine fever, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, diseases of bees, equine influenza, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), and several others. Published in 2009. [...more]
Graphical representations of CDC's latest estimates for 2009 H1N1 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the United States, April 2009 - January 16, 2010. (Source: CDC Swine Flu Updates) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources. [...more]
(Source: Monsters and Critics Health News) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources. [...more]
World health experts are to consider what further measures, if any, governments should take to monitor and combat swine flu (Source: Nursing in Practice) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources. [...more]
A roundup of articles on the WHO's "dangerous" response to swine flu, the virus's ability to grow in the eye, a rapid diagnosis kit, and more. (Source: SciDev.Net) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources. [...more]
Ask any health professional who cares for children and they will tell you: When H1N1 flu hits, it can be very severe. In the last four months of 2009, nearly 240 children died in the United States from H1N1 flu more than three times as many child deaths as in a typical non-H1N1 flu season... (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources. [...more]
During week 4 (January 24-30, 2010), influenza activity remained at approximately the same levels as last week in the U.S. 119 (3.2%) specimens tested by U.S. World Health Organization (WHO) and National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS) collaborating laboratories and reported to CDC/Influenza Division were positive for influenza. [...more]
The Federal Ministry of Health on Monday January 18, 2010, confirmed the first Nigerian to die from the H1N1 virus, or swine 'flu. The case involved a 38-year-old female in Lagos who tested positive to the virus. The lady who had a history of travel to the United States three months earlier developed a respiratory tract infection six weeks after returning to Nigeria and died on Tuesday January 5, 2010 at a hospital on Victoria Island, Lagos. So far, about twenty-seven countries have been hit by swine flu. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources. [...more]
