Archive for January 29th, 2010

The Board of Health will hold a final H1N1 swine flu vaccination clinic, which will be open to anyone that has not yet received this vaccine.
LAKE COUNTY Lake County Public Health will give swine flu shots to anyone older than 6 months old who wants to be vaccinated during clinics in the county.
A MAJOR investigation has been launched after 59 children were given double-strength swine flu jabs at a Widnes health centre. The children, all aged under five, were given the adult jabs at Widnes Healthcare Resource Centre on Caldwell Road.
Epidemiologists are warning Australians that a second wave of swine flu is likely to sweep through workplaces, homes and classrooms.
 
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Those of us who have opposed the mass vaccinations against swine flu [1-3] (Fast-tracked Swine Flu Vaccine under Fire, SiS 43; Swine Flu Pandemic - To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate? & other articles in the series, SiS 44; Cardiovascular Risks from Swine Flu Vaccines, SiS 45) can feel vindicated and relieved.
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego county health department has stopped issuing weekly swine flu updates, in another sign of waning flu activity. The health department this week chose to stop issuing weekly reports, deciding to only alert the media of swine-flu related deaths in the county.
Five more children have died of confirmed or suspected cases of H1N1 swine flu in the United states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday. For the week ending Jan. 23, four kids died of confirmed swine flu, while a fifth died of influenza A. Further tests will confirm if it is swine flu. While the number of hospital visits for flu is low for this time of year, the ...
Five more children have died of confirmed or suspected cases of H1N1 swine flu in the United states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday. For the week ending Jan. 23, four kids died of confirmed swine flu, while a fifth died of influenza A. Further tests will confirm if it is swine flu. While the number of hospital visits for flu is low for this time of year, the ...
The death toll from the swine flu pandemic has risen to at least 14,711, up 569 from a week ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Friday.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — State health officials say two more people have died in the past week of swine-flu related illness, bringing the H1N1 death toll in Louisiana to 43. The latest deaths were two women, one from the Alexandria area and the other from the Monroe area. The state Department of Health and Hospitals says about 237,000 people in Louisiana currently have or have had the H1N1 flu ...