http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP) -- U.S. authorities are pledging to eventually produce enough swine flu vaccine for everyone but the shots couldn't begin until fall at the earliest. http://www.physorg.com/news160386331.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 08:46:16 EST news160386331 (AP) -- Concerns about a possible pandemic have sent people streaming into crowded emergency rooms and walk-in clinics - not with swine flu, but the swine flu jitters. http://www.physorg.com/news160374821.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 05:34:17 EST news160374821 (AP) -- Paris Hilton says "I don't eat that" when asked about swine flu in an online video. She's not the only one confused about the outbreak. http://www.physorg.com/news160371507.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 04:41:37 EST news160371507 (AP) -- No matter what you call it, leading experts say the virus that is scaring the world is pretty much all pig. So while the U.S. government and now the World Health Organization are taking the swine out of "swine flu," the experts who track the genetic heritage of the virus say this: If it is genetically mostly porcine and its parents are pig viruses, it smells like swine flu to them. http://www.physorg.com/news160371024.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 04:35:41 EST news160371024 Lucile Packard Children`s Hospital has issued some swine flu health tips. http://www.physorg.com/news160328563.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:42:55 EST news160328563 (PhysOrg.com) -- Large-scale computer simulations run by Northwestern University researchers show worst-case scenario projections of approximately 1,700 cases of swine flu for the entire United States four weeks from now. http://www.physorg.com/news160327953.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:32:58 EST news160327953 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from Iowa State University is putting flu vaccines into the genetic makeup of corn, which may someday allow pigs and humans to get a flu vaccination simply by eating corn or corn products. http://www.physorg.com/news160327633.html Biology Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:28:24 EST news160327633 At the end of July 2008, major news agencies reported an outbreak of jalapeņo-related salmonella that sickened more than 1,000 people in Mexico and the United States. It was the biggest outbreak of its kind in decades. http://www.physorg.com/news160325542.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:53:07 EST news160325542 (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden - with a well-deserved reputation as someone who shoots from the lip - made it through the first 100 days of the Obama administration without any major gaffes. But on Day 101 the vice president, well, took a nose dive when it came to the government's talking points on air travel during the swine flu outbreak. http://www.physorg.com/news160323758.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:22:57 EST news160323758 In a global influenza pandemic, small stockpiles of a secondary flu medication - if used early in local outbreaks - could extend the effectiveness of primary drug stockpiles, according to research made available today ahead of publication in PLoS Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news160319486.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:11:49 EST news160319486 The World Health Organisation on Thursday said there was no evidence to suggest that it should raise a pandemic flu alert from phase five to the highest level of six. http://www.physorg.com/news160313002.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:23:48 EST news160313002 Spam emails using "swine flu" as a keyword phrase have flooded the Internet as opportunists seek to exploit concerns over the outbreak of the virus, a global cyber security firm warned Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news160312704.html Technology Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:18:56 EST news160312704 (AP) -- The World Health Organization has increased its tally of confirmed swine flu cases around the world to 236 from 148. http://www.physorg.com/news160312100.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:09:09 EST news160312100 In 1918 a human influenza virus known as the Spanish flu spread through the central United States while a swine respiratory disease occurred concurrently. A Kansas State University researcher has found that the virus causing the pandemic was able to infect and replicate in pigs, but did not kill them, unlike in other mammalian hosts like monkeys, mice and ferrets where the infection has been lethal. http://www.physorg.com/news160309140.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:24:04 EST news160309140 (AP) -- A Mexico City toddler who became the first swine-flu death on U.S. soil spent a day with his family shopping at a huge Houston indoor mall the day before he began to show symptoms. http://www.physorg.com/news160308430.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:07:26 EST news160308430 (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 killer virus - and no experts are close to saying that. The secretary's comment reflects how much remains unknown about the new flu virus - most notably how lethal it is and why it seems so much deadlier in Mexico than anywhere else. http://www.physorg.com/news160275894.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:05:32 EST news160275894 (AP) -- The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that the swine flu outbreak is moving closer to becoming a pandemic, as the United States reported the first swine flu death outside of Mexico, and Germany and Austria became latest European nations hit by the disease. http://www.physorg.com/news160231985.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:53:25 EST news160231985 (AP) -- Virulent swine flu spread to at least 10 U.S. states from coast to coast Wednesday and swept deeper into Europe, extending its global reach as President Barack Obama mourned the first U.S. death, a Mexican toddler who had traveled with his family to Texas. Total American cases surged to nearly 100, and Obama said wider school closings might be necessary. http://www.physorg.com/news160231928.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:52:33 EST news160231928 (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Wednesday that wider school closings in the U.S. may be necessary in an escalating global health emergency that claimed the first death in the United States and swept Germany onto the roster of afflicted nations. Obama said local schools across America should consider temporarily shutting down if conditions worsen. http://www.physorg.com/news160222509.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:15:35 EST news160222509 As the number of swine flu cases grows, so do the questions about how the virus is transmitted and what people can do to prevent it. Here are answers from interviews with doctors and from public-health Web sites. http://www.physorg.com/news160218868.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:15:01 EST news160218868 (AP) -- A 23-month-old Texas toddler became the first confirmed swine flu death outside of Mexico as authorities around the world struggled to contain a growing global health menace that has also swept Germany onto the roster of afflicted nations. Officials say the death was in Houston. http://www.physorg.com/news160218601.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:10:22 EST news160218601 The swine flu virus that is smoldering in this country and triggering a full-blown outbreak in Mexico is one of a growing number of animal pathogens to jump the species barrier -- and may be the microbe that jumpstarts the first globe-circling pandemic of the 21st century, experts said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news160210564.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:56:30 EST news160210564 (AP) -- Weeks before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization alerted the public to a growing number of swine flu cases, a startup based in Seattle's suburbs already had a hunch something was up. http://www.physorg.com/news160207466.html Technology Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:05:04 EST news160207466 (AP) -- Germany confirmed three cases of swine flu on Wednesday, becoming the third European country hit by the disease that has upended life in Mexico. New Zealand's swine flu total rose to 14 and the World Health Organization called for an immediate scientific review of the disease. http://www.physorg.com/news160207301.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:02:28 EST news160207301 (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 causes, has been fitted with a light-blue surgical mask to ward off swine flu. http://www.physorg.com/news160163158.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:54:11 EST news160163158 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by University of Maryland researchers suggests that the potential for an avian influenza virus to cause a human flu pandemic is greater than previously thought. Results also illustrate how the current swine flu outbreak likely came about. http://www.physorg.com/news160159862.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:52:49 EST news160159862 (AP) -- At least seven people were in U.S. hospitals with swine flu Tuesday as the number of cases nationwide rose to 64 and a federal health official warned that deaths were likely. http://www.physorg.com/news160157368.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:10:08 EST news160157368 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday declared a state of emergency to tackle the swine flu outbreak but stressed there was "no need for alarm." http://www.physorg.com/news160147777.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:30:10 EST news160147777 (AP) -- The number of confirmed swine flu cases in the United States has jumped to 64, federal officials said Tuesday, and states reported at least four more. http://www.physorg.com/news160147506.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:25:31 EST news160147506 A pandemic of swine flu has edged nearer but the threat can be avoided if governments and individuals join in limiting the contagion, The Lancet said in an editorial on Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news160141132.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:39:11 EST news160141132