You may recall all those additional deaths we were supposed to suffer as a result of swine flu – 30000 to 90000, according to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (a number I previously disputed)… ... [...more]
Swine Flu | On March 24th, 2009 the President declared the H1N1 virus a National Emergency. What does that mean and how does it affect you and I in this swine flu . [...more]
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Arkansas Department of Health and even President Barack Obama have told anyone with swine flu-like symptoms to stay at home. But for many American workers, that directive poses a problem: if they don?t go to work, they don?t get paid. (Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care) 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]
We present the case of a healthy young male who developed acute respiratory failure as a result of infection with influenza A/H1N1 of swine-origin and in whom ventilatory support was optimised and recovery of lung function was monitored by the use of sequential chest ultrasound examinations. The potential pivotal role of bedside lung ultrasonography in H1N1-induced respiratory failure is discussed. (Source: Anaesthesia) [...more]
The FBI says it's looking for a man who robbed a pair of Los Angeles banks wearing a rubber mask of former President Richard Nixon. [...more]
The most stricken areas are the arid swaths of northern Kenya, which were hit this year by a devastating drought, and where many are surviving off dirty water. (source: New York Times) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com [...more]
A flu pandemic in Ukraine that has triggered a nationwide panic is worsening this weekend with up to 400 deaths already reported. The arrival of the virus, suspected by the World Health Organisation to be swine flu but possibly a combination of the H1N1 strain and a respiratory illness, has paralysed the country's fragile health system and could even lead to the postponement of the general election which is scheduled for 17 January. Seven people died and 35,000 new cases were reported on Friday, said the health minister, bringing the total number of people infected to 1.6 million out of a population of 46 million. The onslaught of the virus has seen all the major political figures eagerly exploiting the outbreak. Prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced the arrival of an epidemic on 30 October, when only one case had been reported, and has closed all schools and banned public gatherings – including campaigning political rallies – for the past three weeks. Her standing in the polls has shot up after frequent TV appearances, urging people to take care and criticising her political foes for inaction. Tymoshenko even went to the airport to greet a shipment of Tamiflu, prompting the president to send one of his own representatives. President Viktor Yanukovych, who is still the electoral front runner but facing an ever narrowing gap with Tymoshenko, has been trying to match her by pledging to spend his campaign funds on medical supplies and 20 million face masks. "This is very dangerous,' said Igor Shkrobanets, chief of the health ministry in the western district of Chernivtsi. "One or another politician will gain from this situation, but the doctors and their patients certainly will not." He said the level of fear was such that people were calling out ambulances when they felt the first touch of a fever and hospitals were "overloaded". In such uneasy times, bloggers and conspiracy theorists have whipped up fears by suggesting that bubonic plague, or a new, more lethal strain of the flu, was sweeping Ukraine and that there was a massive cover-up of the numbers of deaths. "We are seeing reports of bodies lying in the streets," said one [...more]
Your chances of getting inoculated against America's worst pandemic since the 1918 flu improve greatly depending on where you live. (source: Forbes) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com [...more]
Epidemic experts have launched an investigation of four Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cases at Duke University Medical Center to ... (source: USATODAY) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com [...more]
AMA Vice President, Dr Steve Hambleton, said today that the AMA is encouraging people to visit their GP to be immunised against swine flu. It has been reported that there are still far too many Australians who have not been vaccinated to protect themselves from the virus. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today) [...more]
