| H1N1 death toll rises to 218 - by Bangkokpost (Mar 8, 2010) |
Six more people died last week of H1N1 flu, bringing the death toll since the outbreak of the disease on April 28 last year to 218, the Public Health Ministry announced on Monday.
Against the target of 2 million, only 404,983 people in risk groups have been...  |
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| Swine Flu May Have Infected 63 Million Americans, Study Finds - by BusinessWeek (Feb 22, 2010) |
By Jason Gale
Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Swine flu may have infected at least 63 million people in the U.S. last year, according to a study in Pittsburgh, where almost every second schoolchild probably caught the pandemic virus.
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| Five more swine flu deaths reported from Gujarat - by IndianExpress.com (Feb 22, 2010) |
Five swine flu deaths have been reported in the last two days in the state, taking the total death toll to 285, health officials said here on Sunday. Nine fresh cases of H1N1 have been reported from across Gujarat, they added.
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| Swine flu cases may be down, but people should still get vaccinated - by NorthJersey.com (Feb 22, 2010) |
WHAT'S NEW: The vaccine for H1N1 flu is widely available in New Jersey now and it is recommended that everyone be immunized. But single-dose vials of the vaccine manufactured by Sanofi-Pasteur should no longer be used. The company advanced the expiration date...  |
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| Medical chief stands by his dire warning on swine flu - by Belfast Telegraph (Feb 12, 2010) |
Northern Ireland’s chief medical officer has defended comments he made that swine flu had the potential to be one of the biggest health threats the public would face and insisted the pandemic is not over.
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| Swine flu drugs ordering service is closed down - by BBC News (Feb 11, 2010) |
The National Pandemic Flu Service, set up to dispense drugs to patients in England without the need to see doctors, has closed down.
The closure - at 0100 GMT - came after a sharp decline in the number of cases of the H1N1 swine flu virus.
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| Is the US swine flu epidemic over? It looks that way, but US isn't prepared to say so yet - by The Canadian Press (Feb 6, 2010) |
ATLANTA — If the U.S. swine flu epidemic isn't over, it certainly looks as if it's on its last legs.
While federal health officials are not ready to declare the threat has passed and the outbreak has run its course, they did report Friday that for the...  |
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| One more A(H1N1) death reported - by Bangkokpost.com (Dec 16, 2009) |
The Ministry of Public Health reported Wednesday one new fatality from Influenza Type A(H1N1), bringing the country’s death tally to 190.
In its weekly report on Thailand’s A(H1N1) flu situation December 7 to 13, the public health authorities...  |
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| H1N1 linked to rise in bacterial pneumonia cases (Nov 26, 2009) |
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- As H1N1 cases are rising, so are bacterial pneumonia cases, health officials are finding.
They're seeing an increase in flu complications leading to pneumonia. At the same time, the flu is at record levels because of the new H1N1...  |
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| Swine flu returns - by Bangkokpost.com (Nov 19, 2009) |
The second round of the A(H1N1) swine flu epidemic has begun, Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai said on Thursday.
He said some provinces had already encountered the second wave of swine flu.
30 per cent of 200 students in the northeastern...  |
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