WASHINGTON - H1N1 swine flu is still circulating around the world and still killing people, although it is on the decline everywhere, global health officials said on Friday.
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Archive for February 7th, 2010
By: Kelli Polson, MANAGING EDITOR Though Student Health Services (SHS) is no longer keeping track of confirmed swine flu cases, the clinic has recently seen a “steep drop” in flu cases, said Dr. Egilda Terenzi, medical director of SHS. SHS is no longer testing patients fo...
PARENTS are urged to vaccinate their children against the swine flu virus as a precaution following the northern hemisphere's early start to the flu season.
The New South Wales Government has launched a month-long push to get people to vaccinate themselves and their children against swine flu.
At the height of fear over H1N1 flu this fall, vaccination foes claimed it was safer to get swine flu than to be inoculated against it.
Ahmedabad, Feb 7 : The Swine flu toll in Gujarat rose to 254 with the death of two patients during the last 24 hours.
Nationwide, Native Americans were far more likely to die from swine flu infections. Only one Native American died from flu in Oregon during a seven-months stretch of 2009, however, which could indicate lower death rates and better vaccination programs here.
Key points: - The clinical consultation rate for influenza - not necessarily swine flu - in Wales during the week ending 31 January fell to 3.5 cases of flu-like illness diagnosed by GPs out of every 100,000 people in Wales. It was 4.8 per 100,000 in the previous week. Current levels of flu in Wales are below the usual level for this time of year. - According to the latest data available from ...
ATLANTA — Is the U.S. swine flu epidemic over? Federal health officials won’t go so far as to say that, but on Friday they reported for the fourth week in a row that no states had widespread flu activity.
New Delhi, Feb 7 (PTI) Cadila Pharmaceuticals? plans to indigenously develop Influenza A HINI (swine flu) vaccine in collaboration with US-based Novavax are likely to be delayed as the government has shown caution in giving go ahead for the clinical trials.