News tagged with flu deaths
Details of lab-made bird flu won't be revealed (Update)
The U.S. government paid scientists to figure out how the deadly bird flu virus might mutate to become a bigger threat to people - and two labs succeeded in creating new strains that are easier to spread.
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Swine flu killed more Britons last winter than in pandemic
More people in Britain died after contracting swine flu last winter, with most deaths among young and middle-aged adults, than during the pandemic a year earlier, official figures showed on Wednesday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 25, 2011 |
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Role of Statins in Reducing H1N1 Mortality Rates Studied
(PhysOrg.com) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers are studying statins, the class of drugs long associated with lowering cholesterol, as a way to reduce H1N1-related deaths.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Side effects not always due to swine flu shot
(AP) -- Hundreds of people on any given day will die, develop the paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome or have spontaneous abortions, and that doesn't necessarily mean that their swine flu vaccination shot was to blame, a ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 31, 2009 |
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Swine flu deaths jump by 700 in a week: WHO
The number of swine flu deaths jumped by 700 in a week, reaching more than 5,700 worldwide since the virus was first uncovered in April, World Health Organisation data indicated Friday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Hitting early, swine flu claims 11 more kids in US
(AP) -- As the swine flu outbreak strikes the U.S. early and hard, health officials note a worrisome number of child deaths and warn that supplies of vaccine will remain scarce for at least the next couple ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 17, 2009 |
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Sickest swine flu cases in Canada, Mexico detailed
(AP) -- Rapidly worsening breathing problems in the sickest swine flu patients in Mexico and Canada present a scary worst-case scenario and could foreshadow what U.S. doctors face as winter flu season sets in, new reports ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 12, 2009 |
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CDC study: Swine flu deaths higher in older kids
(AP) -- About one in 13 U.S. swine flu deaths have been children and most of the kids have been of school age, the federal government said Thursday in its first study of the new flu's youngest victims.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 03, 2009 |
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US swine flu deaths rise to 263
(AP) -- Health officials say their count of U.S. swine flu cases has surpassed 40,000, and deaths have risen to 263.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Deaths linked to swine flu hit 108 worldwide
(AP) -- A fourth person in Arizona and six more in Mexico have died from complications of swine flu - pushing the world's death toll to 108.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 28, 2009 |
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Deaths linked to swine flu top 100 worldwide
(AP) -- The world's swine flu death toll reached 100 as two more New Yorkers died while infected with a virus that has sickened more than 12,000 people.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 27, 2009 |
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Mexican students return to class
(AP) -- Millions of children, many wearing surgical masks, returned to scrubbed and disinfected classrooms Monday after a nationwide shutdown to curb the spread of swine flu in Mexico. The worldwide toll ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 11, 2009 |
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Japan, Australia confirm first cases of swine flu
(AP) -- Japanese authorities scrambled Saturday to track travelers who arrived on the same flight as three people diagnosed with the country's first confirmed cases of swine flu. Australia also joined the ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 09, 2009 |
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Scientists struggle to understand swine flu virus
(AP) -- Mexico's health secretary may have thought he was allaying fears about swine flu when he suggested that the nation's swine flu death rate was 6 or 7 percent. In reality, that would mean a monstrous ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 30, 2009 |
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