Topic: North America

How long does swine flu last?

The 1918 strain of swine flu killed over 50 million people world wide, taking 550,000 of those fatalities from North America . (See below to learn how the 1918 strain of swine flu is related to the current H1N1 Pandemic. How the ...

How to Diagnose Swine Flu

The swine flu pandemic has people in Mexico and the United States in a panic. As the Mexico City population don masks to keep from contracting this powerful, deadly disease, people can't help but fear the worst. Do not share drinks or ...
Schools and health departments have an obligation to take precautions, not set the standard for panic, at the sign of any contagious illness, such as the latest strain of Swine Flu (aka H1N1). New federal guidelines say that if a school has ...
The history of swine flu in Mexico goes back to 1918 when it was proposed at the time that this disease was related to human influenza. Let's look in more detail of the history of swine flu in Mexico. Every year the ...
The H1N1 virus , known as the swine flu emerged in Mexico at the end of the regular flu season, which typically begins in the fall and reaches peak levels in February. The H1N1 virus caused panic throughout the world when it ...
Swine flu is a disease caused by a virus that usually affects the pigs rather than the humans. But, the recent novel strain of swine flu , which we came to know as the ?swine influenza A (H1N1)?, broke all barriers and ...
In recent months, a new strain of the H1N1type?influenza virus, (also known as Swine Flu ) has rampaged throughout the world, killing, at the very least, hundreds of people. In April 2009, throughout a series of farming villages throughout Veracruz Mexico, many ...
Swine flu is a new 2009 virus known as H1N1 which has been a big hit around the world. Cases were first discovered in Mexico and the US and some of these cases had caused hundreds of deaths already. Swine flu has ...

Swine flu symptoms: 2009-10

How can I tell the difference between H1N1 and regular flu? The mortality rate for people is 14.3 percent to 41.4 percent, depending on the country. The symptoms of swine flu are mostly the same as with seasonal flu's but the severity ...

Memoirs: Surviving the H1N1 flu

At the Beginning-Where it All Began According to a statement from the World Health Organization website on April 25th, 2009, the first confirmed human cases were in Mexico. The swine flu used to be a problem limited only to certain parts of ...