News tagged with flu outbreak
Crusading NY health chief picked to head CDC
May 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- For seven years, Dr. Thomas Frieden has been the nagging conscience of the nation's biggest city, the man who made sure New Yorkers couldn't smoke in bars or eat french fries cooked in artery-clogging ...
NYC officials: Latest swine flu cases mostly mild
May 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A day after a swine flu outbreak shut down three public schools in New York City, officials said Friday the virus is spreading faster than seasonal flu does, but the symptoms have generally been mild.
Report: Obama selects Frieden as CDC director
May 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- President Barack Obama on Friday will name Dr. Thomas Frieden as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, administration officials told The New York Times.
Influenza pandemic planning needed to assure adequate care for pregnant women and newborns
May 13, 2009 |
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Pregnant women and newborns are at greatest risk in a flu epidemic, but more planning must be done to ensure that they receive priority treatment should an outbreak occur, according to a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ...
Mexican students return to class
May 11, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Critics: WHO slow on generics for swine flu
May 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- As poor countries face a possible swine flu pandemic with only enough Tamiflu to treat a tiny fraction of their populations, some experts are calling for a simple but contentious solution: massive production of generics.
Envoy criticizes flu 'discrimination' of Mexicans
May 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Nations need common rules for responding to flu outbreaks to prevent discrimination and unfair trade restrictions, Mexico's U.N. envoy said Friday, complaining that Mexican citizens and exports were being unfairly ...
Online surveillance tools provide opportunity to support public health
May 07, 2009 |
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Tapping the Internet - including personal Web searches, news reports, blogs, chat rooms and social networking sites - is fast becoming a way to get a complete, up-to-the-minute view of public health threats, say researchers ...
WHO: up to 2 billion people might get swine flu
May 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The World Health Organization says up to 2 billion people could be infected by swine flu, if the current outbreak turns into a pandemic.
Millions of kids begin returning to Mexico schools
May 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- As if marshaling for war, Mexico's government mobilized thousands of education officials and parents across the country to swiftly disinfect schools and monitor millions of returning students for ...
Unique electronic strategy alerts physicians to latest clinical information on H1N1 flu
May 05, 2009 |
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History was made at 2:30 p.m. (EDT) on Wednesday, April 29, when more than 3,000 physicians in Indianapolis were sent a broadcast alert on swine flu (H1N1 virus) from the Marion County Health Department. The message was of ...
Does new swine flu virus kill by causing a 'cytokine storm'?
May 05, 2009 |
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The swine flu outbreak that began in Mexico and continues to spread around the globe may be particularly dangerous for young, otherwise healthy adults because it contains genetic components of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, ...
Schoolkids get 'flu days' even as CDC reconsiders
May 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal health officials said Monday they were rethinking their advice that schools consider closing for as long as two weeks because of swine flu, a recommendation that has already given an unscheduled ...
Computational Analysis Helps Researchers Understand Emerging H1N1 Flu Strain
May 03, 2009 |
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As part of a broad-based effort to understand the precise genetic make-up of H1N1 - now being referred to as “swine flu” in North America - a group of virologists and computational biologists from Columbia ...
Pigeon tests positive for H5N1 in Hong Kong
May 02, 2009 |
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Hong Kong authorities said Saturday that a dead pigeon found in the city had tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus.
