After months of limiting swine flu vaccinations to people at highest risk for serious infection, state health officials are now giving health care providers the OK to offer the vaccine to anyone who wants it starting Tuesday. The city of Chicago is lifting its restrictions even sooner. Starting Saturday, the city's free H1N1 vaccine clinics will be open to all city residents over the age of six ...
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Archive for December 10th, 2009
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Eight hours after Tokyo office worker Shungo Yamamoto started feeling feverish and faint, he got a diagnosis of swine flu, received antiviral drugs and embarked on three days of self-imposed isolation last month.
A vaccine for the H1N1 strain of swine flu became available in small batches on Oct. 5, 2009 as the country girded for a second wave of the pandemic that broke out across the country and much of the world in the spring.
Federal health officials said Thursday that almost 10,000 people had died of swine flu since April, a significant jump from mortality numbers released last month.
Swine flu has sickened about 50 million Americans, and killed about 10,000, according to new estimates released by federal health officials on Thursday.
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Swine flu infected 50 million people in the U.S. and killed an estimated 10,000 through Nov. 14 from the start of the pandemic in April, said Thomas Frieden , director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
THURSDAY, Dec. 10 (HealthDay News) -- The H1N1 swine flu has sickened nearly 50 million Americans, sent more than 200,000 people to the hospital and killed nearly 10,000 -- more than 8,000 of them children and young adults, a federal health official said Thursday.
Swine flu has killed nearly 10,000 Americans, including 1,100 children and 7,500 younger adults, and infected one in six people in the United States since arriving last April, health officials said on Thursday.
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Swine flu infected 50 million people, or 1 in 6 Americans, and killed an estimated 10,000 from April through Nov. 14, said Thomas Frieden , director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Swine flu is far less dangerous than originally feared, British officials said Thursday _ about 100 times less lethal than the 1918 Spanish flu. To determine how deadly the virus is, the British health department tracked all reported swine flu patients...