News tagged with swine flu epidemic

Mexicans put faith in masks -- but do they work?

(AP) -- The cloth patches in green, blue and white are everywhere, clamped tight over the mouth and nose of teachers, toddlers, policemen and drunks. Even the statue at the church of St. Jude, patron of lost ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 12

Manufacturing genes to attack flu virus

An international research team has manufactured a new protein that can combat deadly flu epidemics.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Is the US swine flu epidemic over?

(AP) -- If the U.S. swine flu epidemic isn't over, it certainly looks as if it's on its last legs. While federal health officials are not ready to declare the threat has passed and the outbreak has run its ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

WHO says swine flu deaths surge to 1,154

(AP) -- The World Health Organization said Tuesday that 1,154 swine flu victims have died since the virus emerged in April.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers track public reaction to flu outbreak

As two Stanford University researchers described their experience watching public reactions in the initial days of the H1N1 flu outbreak, it sounded like one of those nature films in which tiny fish dart back and forth in ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

CDC: New virus lacks genes of 1918 killer flu

(AP) -- The new swine flu virus lacks genes that made the 1918 pandemic strain so deadly, a U.S. health official said Friday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Official: US flu victims may be infecting others

(AP) -- The swine flu epidemic crossed new borders Tuesday with the first cases confirmed in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region, as world health officials said they suspect American patients may ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 2

WHO raises its pandemic alert level on swine flu

(AP) -- The World Health Organization raised its global alert level on the spreading swine flu virus Monday, but stopped short of declaring a global emergency - even as the U.S. said it was acting as if the ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Virus has bird, pig, human components: farm trade watchdog

The top agency for health in farm animals on Monday said Mexico's outbreak of deadly influenza was unleashed by a pathogen mixed from bird, human and hog viruses and branded the term "swine flu" as wrong and harmful to pig ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Is swine flu 'the big one' or a flu that fizzles?

(AP) -- As reports of a unique form of swine flu erupt around the world, the inevitable question arises: Is this the big one?

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Swine flu worse in Mexico than US, but why?

(AP) -- Why has the swine flu engulfing Mexico been deadly there, but not in the United States?

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 21

Mexico may isolate flu patients, inspect homes

(AP) -- As Mexico struggled against the odds Saturday to contain a strange new flu that has killed 68 and perhaps sickened more than 1,000, it was becoming clearer that the government hasn't moved quickly ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

No evidence WHO in cahoots with vaccine makers: members

The World Health Organisation had problems handling the swine flu epidemic, but there was no evidence it tried to boost vaccine makers, the UN body's member countries agreed on Friday.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mexico state near US on alert after H1N1 deaths

Authorities in Mexico's Chihuahua state along the US border announced preventive health measures Sunday to stanch a return of an H1N1 epidemic after four people recently died of the virus.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

British flu death toll hits 39

Britain's flu death toll has risen to 39 since October, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) announced Thursday, with 36 of the fatalities due to swine flu.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Dec 31, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0