Nicaragua swine flu outbreak infects 32

2011-10-14T13:30:28Z

At least 32 people have been infected in a flare-up of the H1N1 swine flu virus in Nicaragua over the last week, according to the health ministry.

All of those diagnosed with the disease are in stable condition in public hospitals or have been discharged, public health spokesman Carlos Saez told local media Thursday.

The outbreak has been concentrated in the capital ...

Two U.S. children develop flu from pigs: CDC

2011-09-02T13:00:12Z

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two U.S. children were infected with flu viruses that originated in pigs in the past two months, and an analysis of both viruses showed they had picked up genetic material from the 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus, government researchers said on Friday.

They issued a warning to health workers to watch out for suspect virus...

Flu viruses rode on pig imports into southern China: study

2011-05-25T10:30:19Z

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China may have unwittingly introduced swine flu viruses when it imported pigs from Europe and North America for breeding over the past few decades, researchers said.

Three virus families are endemic in pigs in south...

Mexican governor says new H1N1 outbreak came from US

2011-03-28T19:30:36Z

A new outbreak of H1N1 in northern Mexico, which left four dead in the past week, originated in the southern United States, the Chihuahua state governor said Monday.

"It has been confirmed that the woman who died in Chihuahua was on a trip from the (US) state of Texas

Swine flu kills 12 in Hong Kong in under a month

2011-02-17T13:30:31Z

At least 12 people have died from swine flu in Hong Kong in less than a month, the territory's health authority said on Thursday, after the latest death from the disease.

A spokeswoman for the health authority said one elderly person had died of confirmed swine flu, while another had died of influenza type A, of which swine flue is a sub-type.

An increase in swine flu cases caused densely populated Hong Kong to step up surveil...

Man dies after swine flu infection in Hong Kong

2011-02-14T17:30:28Z

A man has died in Hong Kong after contracting swine flu, health authorities said Monday, a year-and-a-half after an outbreak of the disease killed 80 people in the city.

Hong Kong's Hospital Authority said a total of 37 people were being treated for swine flu in intensive care units in the city, with 12 critical cases confirmed in th...

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...

Antibodies help seriously ill H1N1 patients recover

2011-01-20T08:30:16Z

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Patients who fell severely ill with the pandemic H1N1 flu responded well when treated with antibodies harvested from survivors of the disease, a study in Hong Kong has found.

The finding, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, underlines the importance of using antibodies from recovered patients to treat ...

Swine flu kills 56 in Egypt since October

2010-12-27T12:30:45Z

CAIRO (Reuters) - A resurgent H1N1 swine flu virus has infected 1,172 people in Egypt and killed 56 since October 8, a Ministry of Health official said on Monday.

The virus has infected 16,373 people, of whom 281 died, since it was first reported in Egypt in June 2009, said the official, who asked not to be named.

H1N1 flu broke out in 2009 and...

Swine flu claims 22 lives in Sri Lanka

2010-12-27T06:30:32Z

Swine flu in Sri Lanka has killed 22 people and infected more than 300 over the past two months, the island's health ministry said Monday.

Official figures showed that 22 people infected with H1N1 -- swine flu -- had died since October 25 while 342 cases were reported during this period.

"The strain of influenza affects peoples' lungs and triggers off a strain of viral pneumonia. The heavy rains and the cold weather helped spr...

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...

Doctors encouraged pregnant women to get flu shot

2010-12-03T10:25:50Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About twice as many pregnant women as usual got flu vaccines last year during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, most because their doctors urged them to do so, federal government researchers reported on Thursday.

But still only about half of the women pregnant during the flu season got immunized, even though they are much more likely to become severely ill, die or lose thei...

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WHO Stays the Course as Japan Grapples With Swine Flu

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2010-11-30T13:41:51Z

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2010-11-30T13:29:20Z

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2010-11-29T15:42:56Z

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2010-11-29T15:41:36Z

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Health Short List

2010-09-30T10:45:35Z

FILE - In this May 18, 2009 photo, former New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden, right, addresses a City Hall news conference on the swine flu outbreak with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in New York. Now director of the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. A whopping 40 million doses of swine flu vaccine expired on Wednesday, June 30, and will be destroyed _ an amount that is believed to be a record loss of flu vaccine.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Mexico Swine Flu Year Later

2010-04-23T03:01:23Z

FILE - In this April 30, 2009 file photo, Kevin Solis plays with his mother Abdi Santoyo, both wearing protective face masks as a precaution against swine flu contagion in Cancun, Mexico. April 23, 2010 marks a year since this city awoke to confusing news of a new virus, sending the world on a wild si...

Switzerland WHO Swine Flu

2010-04-14T12:18:22Z

Harvey Fineberg, chairman of an independent review committee, gestures during a press conference at the World Health Organization, WHO, headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Fineberg, president of the Des Moines, Iowa. Nearly a year after China banned imports of U.S. pork over fears about the swine flu virus, the Asian nation has agreed to resume purchases of American pork with shipments possibly beg...

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