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Internet 'flooded with swine virus spam emails'

Technology / Internet

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.





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Day care centers urged to be vigilant against flu

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Will you start seeing thermometers at day care centers? The government is urging the nation's 360,000 child care providers to be vigilant about sending home children who may have the flu - and the main symptom to ...


CDC: 1 in 5 kids had flu-like illness this month (AP)

CDC: 1 in 5 kids had flu-like illness this month

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- About 1 in 5 U.S. children had a flu-like illness earlier this month - and most of those cases likely were swine flu, according to a new government health survey. About 7 percent of surveyed adults ...


Web tool helps advise when flu needs a doctor

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Wondering if swine flu's bad enough to require a doctor's attention? An interactive Web site may help you decide, using the same type of triage calculations that doctors at Emory University use.


US swine flu deaths surpass 1,000

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Federal health officials say swine flu is more widespread now than it's ever been.


CDC now says 4,000 swine flu deaths in US

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu - about four times the estimate they've been using.


Questions and answers on swine flu

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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.


Side effects not always due to swine flu shot

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(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 ...


Government enlists employers' help to contain flu

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Government officials are calling on U.S. businesses to help manage swine flu this fall by getting vaccines to vulnerable workers and encouraging employees with symptoms to stay home.


CDC: Swine flu has sickened 22 million in 6 months

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created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Government health officials say swine flu has sickened about 22 million Americans since April.


Studies: Swine flu spreads long after fever stops (AP)

Studies: Swine flu spreads long after fever stops (Update)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- When the coughing stops is probably a better sign of when a swine flu patient is no longer contagious, experts said after seeing new research that suggests the virus can still spread many days after ...



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