July 25, 2009 :: staff :: One Comment
The influenza A/H1N1 virus, known as “swine flu”, continues to spread, while governments step up efforts to help private industry produce a safe and effective vaccine. The southern hemisphere is now entering flu season, where the number of cases is expected to multiply and to spread across borders at perhaps unprecedented rates, a prospect which has public health officials working to establish means of prevention and containment.
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July 22, 2009 :: staff :: 2 Comments
Preventive use of antibiotics has one salient effect: it speeds the evolution of targeted bacteria, allowing them to develop pervasive resistance to known treatments. In short, preventive administration of antibiotics makes diseases far more dangerous. The US government is now seeking to end the practice of administering antibiotics to livestock, which health officials believe is putting human health at risk.
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July 16, 2009 :: staff :: Comments Off
The influenza A/H1N1 virus, popularly known as “swine flu” was officially declared a pandemic in June. Shortly after the pandemic declaration, it was confirmed that H1N1 was confirmed in human patients in 74 countries. In the 5 weeks since then, it has spread rapidly and is now confirmed to have caused human infection in 140 countries.
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July 15, 2009 :: J.E. Robertson :: 5 Comments
Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), has told the Guardian newspaper’s Aida Edemariam that swine flu, the A/H1N1 multiple-reassorted virus strain, could be “the biggest” pandemic ever seen, in terms of its spread to so many countries around the world, though that doesn’t mean it will be the most deadly.
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July 15, 2009 :: staff :: 3 Comments
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a report finding that the pandemic spread of the influenza A/H1N1 virus, known as “swine flu”, is now “unstoppable”. The WHO is calling on governments to speed efforts to develop a vaccine and select which segments of their populations will be given priority, based on public health considerations, after health workers.
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June 11, 2009 :: Severino Villalonso :: 4 Comments
The new multi-reassorted strain of flu, Influenza A H1N1, also called “swine flu”, has been officially declared a global pandemic, with over 28,000 confirmed cases of infection across 74 nations. The classification is a geographical judgment, referring to the flu strain’s spread on multiple continents, but does not related to severity. Officials said the pandemic appears to be of moderate severity.
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May 24, 2009 :: staff :: 2 Comments
The influenza A H1N1 virus outbreak of this spring is alleged to have surfaced in a little town in rural Mexico called La Gloria, which happens to be next to one of the world’s most massive industrial scale pig farms. While humans cannot contract the virus by eating pork, the dire conditions and poor sanitation [...]
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May 4, 2009 :: J.E. Robertson :: 2 Comments
Yi Guan —who gained worldwide fame as a virologist when he isolated the SARS virus in the masked palm civet, in specimens being sold at a feral animal market in Guangdong province, China— says the World Health Organization (WHO) was slow in responding to the outbreak of influenza A H1N1, otherwise known as swine flu. Yi has devoted most of his career to flu virology and has a doctorate in swine flu virology.
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May 4, 2009 :: Webb Tisch :: One Comment
The outbreak of a new strain of flu, influenza A H1N1, in April 2009, has set the gears of global public health policy in motion, with aggressive quarantine efforts in Hong Kong, a blanket culling of pigs in Egypt (despite zero human or swine cases), and a ‘Phase 5′ warning from the World Health Organization that the outbreak constituted an imminent pandemic threat. But now there are hints the H1N1 outbreak may be largely contained in North America.
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May 3, 2009 :: J.E. Robertson :: 4 Comments
The Egyptian government has ordered a 100% blanket cull of its entire pig stock in response to the outbreak of “swine flu” in Mexico and the US. The problem is, the new strain of the virus, technically influenza A H1N1, has not been found in pigs. The H1N1 strain is a flu virus that affects the human population and is spread by person to person contact. It contains genetic material showing it is a hybrid flu containing genetic segments linking it to avian-borne, swine-borne and human-borne flu viruses.
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May 2, 2009 :: staff :: One Comment
Over the last week, my administration has taken several precautions to address the challenge posed by the 2009 H1N1 flu virus. Today, I’d like to take a few minutes to explain why. This is a new strain of the flu virus, and because we haven’t developed an immunity to it, it has more potential to cause us harm. Unlike the various strains of animal flu that have emerged in the past, it’s a flu that is spreading from human to human. This creates the potential for a pandemic, which is why we are acting quickly and aggressively.
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May 2, 2009 :: J.E. Robertson :: One Comment
El gobierno de México ha ordenado cuarentena de 5 días, para interrumpir la extensión masiva del virus de influenza A H1N1, la gripe porcina. La cuarentena, si la población la sigue, tendrá el efecto de silenciar no sólo la fiesta del ayer, de la celebración del día mundial de trabajador, sino también del 5 de mayo, día de la independencia y celebración de la nación.
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April 30, 2009 :: staff :: 3 Comments
We have learned that an individual who traveled to Mexico City to support the U.S. delegation that accompanied the President to Mexico City came down with flu-like symptoms associated with his work in Mexico. Three members of the individual’s family tested positive for Type A influenza, and tests are currently underway to determine if they contracted the 2009 H1N1 influenza strain. Individual family members suffered mild to moderate symptoms and received no medication and were not hospitalized.
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April 30, 2009 :: staff :: Comments Off
The World Health Organization has questioned the global tally for confirmed deaths from the H1N1 “swine flu” outbreak, saying only 7 deaths from the virus have been confirmed, not the 149 to 159 previously reported. All 7 deaths took place in Mexico. The WHO, which yesterday raised its pandemic alert level to Phase 5 for the outbreak, says it has confirmed only 40 cases in the Americas, 26 in Mexico, resulting in 7 deaths.
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April 30, 2009 :: staff :: Comments Off
Countless families and communities touched by our auto industry still face tough times ahead. Our projected long-term deficits are still too high, and government is still not as efficient as it needs to be. We still confront threats ranging from terrorism to nuclear proliferation, as well as pandemic flu. And all this means you can expect an unrelenting, unyielding effort from this administration to strengthen our prosperity and our security in the second hundred days, in the third hundred days and all of the days after that.
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April 29, 2009 :: staff :: Comments Off
Dr. Margaret Chan: Based on assessment of all available information, and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5. Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
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April 29, 2009 :: J.E. Robertson :: Comments Off
Dr. Margaret Chan, director of the World Health Organization (WHO), today announced that the global public health alert for the H1N1 flu outbreak from Phase 4 to Phase 5. Phase 5 means there is a genuine risk of a global pandemic, but the outbreak does not yet constitute a global pandemic.
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April 29, 2009 :: J.E. Robertson :: Comments Off
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius was today confirmed by the US Senate as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and sworn in as the latest member of Pres. Barack Obama’s cabinet. This White House photo by Peter Souza shows Sebelius being briefed today on the US response to the 2009 H1N1 flu virus outbreak, reported to have begun in Mexico City.
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