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Flu epidemic shuts all Moscow schools

2011-01-29T13:30:08Z

Moscow and two other cities shut their schools for a week Saturday and urged children not to play in groups in a bid to stamp out the worst flu outbreak to hit central Russia in more than a decade.

The Moscow education department's order covered more than 1,500 public and private elementary schools.

Education officials said this meant that nearly 500,000 children would get an unscheduled w...

New swine flu deaths reported in UK

2010-12-13T09:30:42Z

Eight people have died from swine flu in England since early September, health authorities have told AFP, with Britain seemingly at the forefront of a winter resurgence in Europe.

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) insisted it was to be expect...

New swine flu deaths reported

2010-12-11T12:30:22Z

Eight people have died from swine flu in England since early September, health authorities told AFP on Saturday, with Britain seemingly at the forefront of a winter resurgence in Europe.

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) insisted it was to be...

Swine flu's impact on Ireland

2010-11-29T15:40:46Z

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Swine flu spreads to Serbia

2010-11-29T15:40:47Z

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BNP and the swine flu epidemic

2010-11-29T15:40:50Z

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Swine flu killed 70 young people over nine months

2010-10-27T07:19:46Z

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Should We Panic

2010-11-03T09:35:33Z

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How to Sure Swine Flu is Serious?

2010-11-03T09:35:32Z

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H1N1 Vaccine: What Every Pregnant Woman Should and Needs to Know!

2010-11-03T09:32:06Z

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CURRENTLY THERE ARE 300,000 CASES OF SWINE FLU AMONG THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE!

2010-11-02T22:09:21Z

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SCMP Issues & Implications: July 11-12, 2009

2010-11-02T23:56:45Z

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Narcolepsy fears may halt swine flu vaccine: Finland

2010-08-24T13:15:42Z

Finland's National Institute for Health and Wefare recommended Tuesday halting the use of the Pandemrix swine flu vaccine until a probe into a possible link to narcolepsy among children is concluded.

"At the moment we are not having a (swine flu) epidemic, so there is no immediate need for vaccination," the agency said in a st...

Narcolepsy fears may halt swine flu vaccine, Finland

2010-08-24T08:15:27Z

Finland's National Institute for Health and Wefare recommended Tuesday halting the use of the Pandemrix swine flu vaccine until a probe into a possible link to narcolepsy among children is concluded.

"At the moment we are not having a (swine flu) epidemic, so there is no immediate need for vaccination," the agency said in a st...

May kitchen electrical Keywords: Near

2010-09-09T09:41:40Z

May for range hood, gas stoves, electric three-piece kitchen cabinet in terms of disinfection, all gathered in the past the focus range hood, swine flu, the body ... ...

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Netherlands destroying 17 million swine flu vaccine doses

2010-07-27T11:16:13Z

The Netherlands is destroying more than 17 million unused doses of swine flu vaccine that were nearing their expiry date and that it could not resell, the health ministry said Tuesday.

"We have started destroying" the vaccines, health ministry spokeswoman Inge Freriksen told AFP. "In the coming months, 17.8 million doses will be destroyed because the expiry date is appr...

Quantity Over Quality (BAX, GSK, NVS, SNY, AZN, SVA)

2010-09-11T03:43:29Z

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WHO sets up swine flu probe

2010-04-12T02:15:48Z

Health experts on Monday begin examining the controversial response to the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century, nearly a year after global alarm was raised over the new swine flu strain.

The World Health Organisation is forming a panel of 29 external experts following accusations that the agency-led international reaction to A(H1N1) influenza was overblown and may have been tainted by commerc...

Poland stands alone in refusing swine flu vaccines

2010-04-16T07:40:53Z

Poland stands alone in rejecting swine flu vaccines out of safety fears

The decision seemed fraught with risk: a government refusing to import swine flu vaccines amid worldwide warnings of a spreading epidemic.

But Poland did just that, becoming the only country worldwide known to reject the vaccines over safety fears and distrust in the drug companies producing them — concerns international health experts reject a...

France Cancels Swine Flu Vaccines Ordered From Novartis

2010-10-24T15:17:26Z

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Global swine flu deaths exceed 11,500: WHO

2010-04-16T08:09:47Z

More than 11,500 people have died from swine flu worldwide since the pandemic strain was uncovered in April, World Health Organisation data showed Wednesday.

The WHO said overall A(H1N1) influenza "activity has recently peaked in much of the (northern) hemisphere," including North America and western Euro...

Too early to declare end to swine flu pandemic: WHO

2010-04-16T08:19:59Z

Senior World Health Organisation official Keiji Fukuda said Thursday that it was too early to declare the swine flu pandemic over, as it continues at "high levels" in parts of Europe and central Asia.

Britain: Swine flu less deadly than first thought, about 100 times less lethal than 1918 flu

Swine flu is far less dangerous than originally feared, British officials said Thursday — about 100 times less lethal than the 1918 Spanish flu.

To determine how deadly the virus is, the British health department tracked all reported swine flu patients hospitalized between July and November. In a paper publi...

Flu death toll jumps by over 1,000 in a week: WHO

2010-04-16T08:50:57Z

The number of swine flu deaths jumped by over 1,000 in a week, reaching at least 7,826 worldwide since the virus was first uncovered in April, World Health Organisation data showed Friday.

The number of deaths reported to the UN health agency showed the biggest rise in the Americas, where 5,360 deaths have now been recorded compared to 4,806 ...

Sharp increase in swine flu deaths in France

2010-04-16T08:51:44Z

PARIS (Reuters) - The number of deaths in mainland France from the H1N1 swine flu virus jumped in the last week, according to official data Thursday.

The toll rose to 68 deaths as of November 22, with 22 new deaths last week. Six of the 68 victims had no underlying health problems, the country's health monitoring institute said. Health minister

WHO says probing reports of mutating swine flu virus

2010-04-16T08:51:48Z

The World Health Organisation said Thursday that it is investigating reports of mutations in the swine flu virus, after half-a-dozen countries recorded cases in which the virus was transforming.

"The question is whether these mutations again suggest that there is a fundamental change going on in viruses out there -- whether there's a turn for the worse in terms of severity," said China reports 8 cases of mutated swine flu virus; says drugs, vaccine still effective

China has detected eight people infected with mutated forms of the swine flu virus, a health official said Wednesday, but flu drugs and vaccines still work against it.

Flu viruses mutate easily, and scientists have been closing watching for signs that the swine flu virus is changing, which could make it more dangerous or more infect...

China reports 8 cases of swine flu mutation

2010-04-16T08:53:31Z

China reports 8 cases of swine flu virus mutation; says drugs, vaccine still effective

China has detected eight cases of swine flu mutation, a health official said Wednesday, amid longstanding concerns among scientists that the virus could change into a more dangerous form.

Last week, the World Health Organization said it was investigat...

Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come

2010-06-12T11:56:46Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over.

Officials also said they were investigating several troubling outbreaks of drug-resistant H1N1 but noted they were limited so far and that there were no indications yet the virus was mutating in a sustained way.

The No wandering hands: Etiquette adviser says mistletoe kiss on cheek not lips to avoid swine flu

Britain's authority on etiquette says it's more hygienic to exchange kisses on the cheek than to shake hands — so the swine flu pandemic should not make people afraid of kissing under the mistletoe this holiday season.

But Debrett's warns people to observe proper etiquette by kissing others on the cheek in...

WHO investigating Norway swine flu mutations

2010-04-16T08:59:05Z

WHO investigating swine flu mutations from Norway deaths, says significance still unclear

The World Health Organization said Friday it is investigating samples of variant swine flu linked to two deaths and one severe case in Norway, but that so far the significance of the mutation is unclear.

Norway's World Health Organisation data showed Friday, about 500 more than a week ago.

Data posted a week ago showed that 6,250 people have died from the A(H1N1) virus since it was first uncovered in April.

The number of fatalities remains the highest in the Americas, where 4,806 deaths have been recorded.

The Britain also announced Thursday it would start offering the swine flu vaccine to healthy children under five, besides those already being vaccinated, mainly peop...

Lithuania reports 1st swine flu death

2010-04-16T09:04:09Z

Lithuania says a 14-year-old boy is the country's first swine flu-related fatality.

The Health Ministry says the boy died at a clinic in the central city of Kaunas on Wednesday morning. It gave no other details.

It was the second reported swine flu death in the Baltic countries where only a few hundred cases have been co...

Officials: Infant is first Swiss swine flu death

2010-04-16T09:04:23Z

Safety officials in the northwest Swiss canton (state) of Basel-Landschaft say an infant has become the country's first fatality from swine flu.

Local daily Basler Zeitung reported Wednesday on its Web site that the 5-month-old child died several days ago.

It quoted the top cantonal health official, Dominik Schorr<...

Poland sees first swine flu fatalities

2010-04-16T09:07:26Z

A Polish medical official says that a 48-year-old man infected with the swine flu virus has died.

The man could be the first person without any other medical condition to die from the virus in Poland.

Robert Starzec, director of a hospital in Lodz, said Monday that two independent laboratory tests confirmed the presence of the virus in the man, who died during the night. He was brought to the ...

Common cold may hold off swine flu

2010-10-22T14:51:01Z

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Global swine flu deaths slow as WHO toll passes 6,250

2010-06-12T11:57:02Z

More than 6,250 people have died in the swine flu pandemic, World Health Organisation data showed Friday, as the global death rate appeared to slow.

The number of deaths from the A(H1N1) pandemic in the week to November 8 grew by about 179, against 224 a week earlier and a leap of about 700 in the last week of October.

The pandemic now stretches across 206 countries or territories worldwide, the...

Swine flu causes surge of garlic sales in Serbia

2010-04-16T09:10:46Z

Fear of swine flu causes surge of garlic sales in public markets of Serbia

Belgrade's open-air markets were a welter of busy customers on Friday, pushing and shoving to buy one item — garlic.

In Serbia, garlic has long been regarded as a good luck charm and a guard against many ailments. As far as the public is concerned, that includes the swine flu pandemic, which re...

Swine flu cases in England down by 25%

2010-04-16T09:12:35Z

British officials say that swine flu cases in England dropped by nearly 25 percent in the last week.

In a statement issued on Thursday, the Health Protection Agency estimated there were about 64,000 new cases last week, compared with about 84,000 cases the week before. The numbers are only a guess since they are based on indicators like how many people call their doctors with flu-like symptoms or call t...

Italian invents anti-swine flu holy water dispenser

2010-04-16T09:13:59Z

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu -- an electronic holy water dispenser.

The terracotta dispenser, used in the northern town of Fornaci di Briosco, functions like an automatic soap dispenser in public washrooms -- a churchgoer waves his or her hand under a sensor and the...

The anti-swine flu holy water dispenser

2010-04-16T09:13:56Z

Some countries "ambushed" by H1N1

2010-04-16T09:21:11Z

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Some countries have been "ambushed" by sudden severe outbreaks of disease and death from the H1N1 flu pandemic, and have gone over the top in their response, a European flu specialist said on Friday.

Angus Nicoll, influenza coordinator at the The Netherlands reported its first case of drug-resistant swine flu on Wednesday, but said this was "no reason for panic".

"A patient with serious flu symptoms has turned out to be infected with an H1N1 virus that is resistant to the antiviral drug oseltamivir" commonly known as Tamiflu, the European Union says it is coordinating closely with health experts in Ukraine to help it cope with a suspected swine flu outbreak.

EU spokeswoman Nina Papadoulaki says the EU is "following very closely" the spread of the flu virus in Ukraine, which neighbors the 27-nation bloc.

She said Wednesday many EU ...

WHO 'assumes' Ukraine gripped by swine flu

2010-04-16T09:25:56Z

The World Health Organisation said Tuesday that it was valid to assume that most of the cases of influenza reportedly sweeping through Ukraine were caused by the pandemic A(H1N1) virus.

Ukrainian authorities on Sunday launched an urgent appeal for help from world powers after it imposed drastic measures to tackle a sudden surge of flu-like illness in the c...

Swine flu scare tightens borders around Ukraine

2010-04-16T09:27:36Z

Russia, Slovakia tighten borders with Ukraine as WHO investigates swine flu outbreak

Russia and Slovakia have tightened their borders with Ukraine as the World Health Organization investigates a suspected swine flu outbreak in the country.

Pr...

Ukraine calls for help fighting swine flu

2010-04-16T09:28:58Z

Ukraine made an urgent appeal to world powers for help battling swine flu on Sunday, after 60 people died from respiratory problems in a week.

President Viktor Yushchenko wrote to the United States, the European Union, N...

Swine flu deaths soar, Ukraine closes schools

2010-06-12T11:57:29Z

The number of global swine flu deaths spiked by 700 in a week, the World Health Organisation said Friday, as Ukraine closed schools and cinemas in the toughest measures taken in Europe over the virus.

More than 5,700 people have now died from the A(H1N1) since it broke out in April in Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Friday ordered a three-week closure of Ukraine's schools and cinemas in the toughest measures adopted yet to combat the swine flu virus in Europe.

"From today, all the school establishments in Ukraine -- be they private or public -- will be put on three weeks of holiday," she told her cabinet i...

Ten ETFs That Might Catch Swine Flu

2010-10-22T07:31:15Z

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PSG duo tested for swine flu

2010-04-16T09:40:18Z

Two players of Paris St Germain have undergone tests for swine flu, football officials said on Saturday casting doubts over Sunday's league game at Marseille.

Winger Ludovic Guily and defender Mamadou Sakho have been been unwell with fly symptoms for the last two days and they were tested on F...

Swine flu spreads in Europe as global toll nears 5,000

2010-04-16T09:40:56Z

Swine flu is spreading faster and claiming new fatalities in Europe, health officials said Friday, as the global death toll from the virus rose to nearly 5,000 victims.

Since the A(H1N1) virus was uncovered in April, there have been over 4,735 deaths reported to the World Health Organisation as of a week ago, the WHO said.

Most of the fatal cases -- 3,...

Visiting students brought swine flu to Kenya: study

2010-04-16T09:41:45Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Travelers from Britain, including medical and public health students, brought the new pandemic swine flu to Kenya in the space of a few weeks, researchers reported on Thursday.

Researchers testing out the East African country's new influenza surveillance system said the arrival of the new H1N1 ...

First H1N1 flu death in Czech Republic: hospital

2010-04-16T09:42:02Z

The H1N1 flu virus has claimed its first victim in the Czech Republic as a woman died in hospital in the western city of Karlovy Vary on Thursday, a hospital spokeswoman told AFP.

A woman "with a serious chronic disease and confirmed H1N1 flu died today after a short hospitalisation," said Zdenka Markova.

She added that the woman had suffered from serious heart trouble too.

"The flu complicated her condition, u...

Iceland reports first death from swine flu

2010-04-16T09:45:36Z

Icelandic health officials reported their country's first swine flu death Monday amid a spike in cases on the North Atlantic island.

The victim, an 18-year-old disabled woman, died after falling ill about 11 days ago, Iceland's Directorate of Health said in a statement. The woman had a pre-existing lung condition which contributed to her death, according to World Health Organisation said Friday.

This is an increase of 210 fatal cases from a week ago when 4,525 deaths were recorded, the UN health agency said in its weekly update of the pandemic.

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Swine flu toll climbs to 4,525: WHO

2010-04-16T09:54:38Z

At least 4,525 people have died from swine flu infections since the A(H1N1) virus was uncovered in April, the World Health Organisation said Friday.

This is an increase of 417 fatal cases from a week ago when 4,108 deaths were recorded, the UN health agency said in its weekly update of the pandemic.

Most deaths occurred in the Americas ...

Germany announces first swine flu death

2010-04-16T09:55:49Z

Germany on Thursday announced its first confirmed swine flu-related death after a female patient suffered complications from the A(H1N1) virus.

Authorities said tests showed the 36-year-old woman had died due to her infection with the virus in late September while a five-year-old who died this earlier week may have been the country's second victim of the disease.

"The H1N1 virus is responsible for the death of the 36-year-old pati...

Third swine flu vaccine nears EU approval

2010-04-16T10:01:32Z

European regulators, fighting the threat of a second wave of deadly swine flu, on Friday paved the way for a third pandemic vaccine to be approved for use across the European Union.

The London-based European Medicines Agency (EMEA) recommended that the Scotland almost doubled to 13,800, according to the Healt...

Swine flu cases up 50 percent in England

2010-04-16T10:02:37Z

British health officials estimate swine flu cases have increased by about 50 percent in England since last week, with about 14,000 new cases.

Since they are no longer counting individual cases, the numbers released Thursday by the Health Protection Agency are only a rough guess. Swine flu cases have steadily risen in the Northern Hemisphere since schools reopened last month and temperatures dropped.

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UK drug giant GSK to start shipping flu vaccine

2010-04-16T10:04:09Z

British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will next week begin shipping its swine flu vaccine Pandemrix across Europe, the group announced on Wednesday following approval by regulators.

"Following the (European) Commission's approval we expect to commence shipments of Pandemrix to European governments from next week," said Jean Stephenne, President of GlaxoSmithKline Biological...

Bulgaria reports 1st swine flu-related death

2010-04-16T10:04:12Z

Officials say the death of a 30-year-old man marks the country's first swine flu-related fatality.

A Health Ministry statement says the Bulgarian man died Wednesday in a Sofia hospital after a week of pneumonia.

The ministry says Bulgaria has recorded 78 cases of swine flu in the country.

The World Health...

Swine flu vaccines get approval

2010-04-16T10:08:25Z

European regulators recommended on Friday that two new vaccines to fight a swine flu pandemic be granted a marketing licence across Europe amid growing fears of a deadly second wave of the virus.

"The European Medicines Agency has recommended to the European Commission that two vaccines ag...

Swine flu vaccines win approval

2010-04-16T10:08:20Z

European regulators recommended on Friday that two new vaccines to fight a swine flu pandemic be granted a marketing licence across Europe amid growing fears of a deadly second wave of the virus.

"The European Medicines Agency has recommended to the European Commission that two vaccines ag...

Prison probes 'swine flu gel intoxication'

2010-04-16T10:08:34Z

An investigation was under way in a jail after an inmate appeared to have got drunk on anti-bacterial gel used to combat the spread of swine flu, a prison spokesman said on Friday.

The hand gel, which contains alcohol, was made available to prisoners at The Verne prison in Dorset, on the same day the incident took place.

A Prison Service spokesman said: "On 21 September, a prisoner... showed signs of intoxication, the cause of which...

Swine flu cases double in UK

2010-04-16T10:09:27Z

The country's number of new swine flu cases almost doubled in a week in the second weekly increase following a summer lull, official date released Thursday showed.

At least 66 schools in England have recorded outbreaks of the A(H1N1) virus since children returned to school at the start of September, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA).

Experts have warned of a second wave of flu as the...

US orders more lots more swine flu vaccine

2010-04-16T10:12:28Z

US orders more doses of swine flu vaccine doses, bringing eventual total to 251 million doses

U.S. health officials have ordered more swine flu vaccine — bringing the nation's eventual total to 251 million doses.

The government on Monday ordered an extra 27.3 million doses from Sanofi Pasteur of France, which produces flu shots at its Swiftwater, Pa....

Sanofi to deliver swine flu vaccine in October

2010-04-16T10:13:03Z

Sanofi-Aventis CEO says US deliveries of swine flu vaccine to begin in October

Sanofi-Aventis SA will begin delivering the first doses of its new swine flu vaccine in the United States by mid-October, the head of France's largest pharmaceutical company said Monday.

In an interview with French ...

Russia records first swine flu death: medic

2010-04-16T10:13:20Z

A doctor recently arrived from Bulgaria died after contracting swine flu, becoming Russia's first fatality from the A(H1N1) virus, a Russian medical sciences' academy official said on Sunday.

"The day before she died, her tests were handed over to our group, and we immediately diagnosed it as swine flu," Dmitry Lvov was quoted as saying b...

Swine flu and a new age of social greetings

2010-10-26T21:36:30Z

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US, Europe offer swine flu vaccine to nations in need

2010-06-25T20:38:19Z

The United States, France and Britain are among nine countries that pledged Thursday to make 10 percent of their swine flu vaccine supply available to other nations that may need it.

In recognition of the global nature of the pandemic, the United States is taking this action along with Britain, notably among children returning to school after the summer break, according to official figures released Thursday.

An estimated 5,000 new cases were reported in England last week, the first rise since July in Britain -- the worst-hit country in Europe by the A(H1N1) virus.

"The rates of flu-like illness and rela...

Swine flu rising again in Britain

2010-04-16T10:16:46Z

The number of new swine flu cases is rising again in Britain, notably among children returning to school after the summer break, according to official figures released Thursday.

An estimated 5,000 new cases were reported in England last week, the first rise since July in Britain -- the worst hit country in Europe by the A(H1N1) virus.

"The rates of flu-like illness and rela...

Swine flu cases soar as schools return

2010-10-22T07:56:48Z

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Spanish security firm detects 'swine flu' computer virus

2010-04-16T10:23:03Z

Cyber criminals are taking advantage of swine flu fears with e-mails promising news on the illness which then infect computers with a virus, a Spanish computer security firm warned Friday.

The e-mails invite recipients to open a document with information claiming the H1N1 flu virus was developed by pharmaceutical firms seeking to make huge profits from the outbreak, Pandasecurity said in a statement.

But if the document is opened, a virus is installed on the person's computer...

France seeks to confirm flu epidemic

2010-04-16T10:25:36Z

The estimated number of flu cases -- including swine flu -- in France has reached epidemic proportions, according to preliminary data released Wednesday.

"Last week the number of visits to doctors for flu in mainland France was estimated at 52,300, which is to say 83 cases per 100,000 inhabitants," said the Natio...

H1N1 flu stops Italians kissing saint's blood

2010-04-16T10:26:45Z

NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - Fear of H1N1 flu will stop devout Neapolitans from performing the time-honored ritual of kissing the blood of their patron Saint Gennaro when the city's annual festival begins later this month.

The decision to forbid kissing of the glass vial containing the saint's blood was taken reluctantly by ecclesiastical and city authorities Monday, and has bro...

China approves one-dose homegrown swine flu vaccine

2010-06-12T14:51:01Z

China on Thursday granted approval to its first home-grown swine flu vaccine, which producer Sinovac says is effective after only one dose, as the country braces for a feared winter outbreak.

The decision could boost the global fight against A(H1N1) influenza, as most experts had assumed that two doses of vaccine per person would be needed to provide adequate protection.

"The Sinovac (A)H1N1 vaccine is officially approved," the head o...

First swine flu death in Sweden: hospital

2010-04-16T10:34:07Z

Sweden reported its first death from A(H1N1) influenza on Monday, a hospital in the central city of Uppsala announced.

"We received the test results which confirm that the man in his 30s who died last Friday had H1N1 flu," the Akademiska hospital said in a statement.

The man died had flu symptoms and died at his home near Uppsala, 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of

New Caledonia: 2 more swine flu deaths

2010-04-16T10:40:43Z

Two people in New Caledonia without any known complicating factors have died from swine flu, the government of the French South Pacific territory said Monday.

The deaths of a 30-year-old man and a 46-year-old woman bring to five the number of patients who have succumbed to the A-H1N1 virus on New Caledonia, the statement said.

Both had been hospitalized since mi...

Glaxo starts testing its swine flu vaccine

2010-04-16T10:50:26Z

Glaxo starts testing its swine flu vaccine; early results expected in September

Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Friday it has started testing its swine flu vaccine in humans.

Glaxo said it plans to conduct 16 clinical trials of its swine flu vaccine in more than 9,000 people in Europe and N...

France ready to close all schools in flu pandemic

2010-04-16T10:52:39Z

France's minister of education is ready to close all of the country's schools in the event of a major swine flu outbreak, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday.

"In case of a complete pandemic we are ready to close all of the schools in France," Luc Chatel was quoted as saying by Le Figaro, a Ireland's health ministry on Friday reported the country's first death linked to swine flu in a young woman with "an underlying health condition."

The woman died in Tallaght hospital in the south of Dublin, the ministry said.

A spokesman said she was suffering from "an underlying health condition" but provided no further...

Ireland reports first death from swine flu

2010-04-16T10:56:26Z

Ireland has reported its first swine flu death.

Ireland's deputy chief medical officer Dr. John Devlin announced that a woman who contracted the virus died Friday in a Dublin hospital.

The Health Department identified the victim as a young Irishwoman from western Ireland "with serious underlying medical problems." ...

British officials: New swine flu cases decreasing

2010-04-16T10:57:45Z

British health officials say the number of new swine fu cases has decreased sharply in the past week.

The Health Protection Agency says there were an estimated 30,000 new cases in England in the past seven days, down from 110,000 the previous week.

Britain is Europe's hardest-hit country with sw...

Novartis starts testing its swine flu vaccine

2010-04-16T10:58:59Z

Novartis starts testing swine flu vaccine, 1st person in Europe injected 10 days ago

Swiss drugmaker Novartis has begun injecting its swine flu vaccine into people in the company's first human tests, a spokesman said Wednesday.

The vaccine is being tested in a yearlong trial of 6,000 people of all ages in B...

Doctors voice fears over flu phoneline

2010-04-16T10:58:57Z

An overwhelming majority of doctors fear that infections and serious diseases could be missed because swine flu is being diagnosed over the phone, a poll showed Wednesday.

Nearly 90 percent of 251 general practitioners questioned by GP newspaper fear that conditions such as tonsilitis or bronchitis and potentially fatal illnesses such as meningitis may be overlooked.

The swine flu hotline was launched to reduce pressure on doctors because the Netherlands and Vietnam joined the growing list of countries with fatalities and deaths from the virus in Latin America soared.

Three new deaths each, not yet confirmed by the World Health Organization, were ...

Young man is 1st Dutch swine flu death

2010-04-16T11:00:01Z

The National Institute of Public Health says a teenager has died from swine flu, the first death from the disease recorded in the Netherlands.

The agency says the young man, 17, was suffering from an undisclosed "very serious" other disease when he caught H1N1.

The institute said Tuesday it would reveal no further details ...

Hawks Kings Basketball

2011-01-04T22:01:17Z

Atlanta Hawks guard Jamal Crawford,left, shoots over Sacramento Kings guard Beno Udrih, of Slovenia during the first half of an ...

Blue Jackets Coyotes Hockey

2011-01-04T21:01:31Z

Columbus Blue Jackets' R.J. Umberger (18) scores a goal against Phoenix Coyotes' Ilya Bryzgalov, of Russia, during the second period of an New Jersey Devils' Andy Greene (6) and Minnesota Wild's Martin Havlat (24), of the Czech Republic, compete for the puck during the first period of an Italy's Manuela Moelgg competes during the first run of an alpine ski women's World Cup slalom event, in Zagreb, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Russia Schwarzenegger

2011-01-04T09:32:15Z

FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 11, 2010 file photo, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, invites then California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for a ride in his vintage car, a Soviet built Chaika luxury car, during their meeting in the Gorki residence outside Moscow, Russia. The Russian president and the Terminator are tweeting, and m...