Archive for January 21st, 2010

Two deaths from swine flu -- one in late December and another last week -- have raised Hawaii's toll to 13 since the first cases of the virus were confirmed here May 5, 2009.
A villager has been detected with swine flu, taking the total number of such cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 67, state Health Department officials said on Thursday.
H1N1 vaccine is readily available, but many state residents believe threat is past -- Swine flu and New Jersey
Jammu, Jan 21 (PTI) A villager has been detected with swine flu, taking the total number of such cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 67, state Health Department officials said today.
A TEENAGER who suffered a severe reaction to swine flu drug Tamiflu was later told she had not even contracted the virus.
 
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
PENSIONERS in North Yorkshire are failing to take their chance to get protection against the spread of swine flu.
More than 10,000 people were inoculated at free swine-flu vaccination clinics sponsored by San Diego County over the last two weekends, health officials said yesterday.
 
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
HA NOI — Ten students are reported to have contracted the swine flu virus through a recent outbreak at Pha Le Primary School, Thuy Nguyen District, nothern Hai Phong Province.
Up to half of children in some areas have had swine flu even though they may not have shown symptoms, government scientists have found.
 
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Photo by dicksdaily A BBC Freedom of Information request has unearthed the troubling fact that little more that a third of London's nursing staff have bothered to take up the swine flu vaccine . Despite the vaccine's widespread availability -- GlaxoSmithKline are maintaining supplies despite the slowdown of the pandemic -- nursing staff, who routinely come into contact with some of those most ...