Sentences with phrase «h1n1 swine flu»

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Although H1N1 swine flu appears mild, it affects mostly older children and young adults, and experts worry it could change into a more dangerous form.

But if you do want to keep your own finger on the pulse of the spread of swine flu (so you can at least tell your grandkids about that «flu of ought - 9»), you can follow the spread of H1N1 Swine Flu on Google Maps.Google Maps H1N1 Swine Flu tracking indicates known and suspected cases in different colors: purple for confirmed or probable, pink for suspected.

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Chance testing of two Greek students reveals that community spread of H1N1 swine flu is established — testing rules should change, say health experts

Hospitals in Greece have identified H1N1 swine flu in two students who had no contact with known cases of the virus and had not been in countries with widespread infection.

Takis Panagiotopoulos of the Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Athens and colleagues reported on 28 May in Eurosurveillance, a weekly bulletin published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in Stockholm, Sweden, that two Greek men returning home from Scotland had tested positive this week for H1N1 swine flu.

The best strains we have for a H1N1 swine flu vaccine grow only as half as fast as ordinary vaccine viruses, meaning poorer nations may not get it in time if there is a second wave

The World Health Organization is one step closer to declaring a pandemic due to the deadly H1N1 swine flu virus — but it says, «we are not there yet»

Smeyne suspects that all flu viruses, including the current H1N1 swine flu pandemic, could cause symptoms of encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain.

H1N1 swine flu is spreading fast enough to justify the preparations for a pandemic, say epidemiologists who've analysed its spread — though there is still uncertainty about its clinical severity

The authorities in Europe appear ill - prepared over how to keep citizens informed about the spread of H1N1 swine flu

The H1N1 swine flu virus caused a pandemic in 2009, spreading to over 200 countries and killing more than 18,000 people.

Hung's team wondered whether the same treatment might be used for today's H1N1 swine flu patients.

Most of the people who have died from H1N1 swine flu have had an underlying health problem that weakened their ability to fight off the virus.

That year, US government officials were faced with the double threat of H1N1 swine flu, which threatened to explode into a devastating pandemic, and the more deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, which was continuing to infect small numbers of people.

The chief flu scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO) today defended his agency against criticism that the H1N1 swine flu pandemic was «fake,» that its threat to human health was hyped, and that WHO's policies were influenced by vaccine manufacturers who benefited from the pandemic virus.

Last spring, with fears rising over the H1N1 swine flu virus, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and the University of Utah were granted emergency supercomputing time at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin.

The predecessor of the 2009 H1N1 swine flu virus emerges in the US.

Not exact matches

Fears that a second wave of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, will hit during the upcoming flu season are already prompting airlines to be cautious.

Find out whether the H1N1 or swine flu virus can be transmitted through pork and whether pigs spread swine flu to people or peo...

A: Probably H1N1 («swine») flu.

Mayor Bloomberg recently had a new issue to handle — an outbreak of the H1N1 flu commonly known as swine flu in New York City.

Test results from the New York State Wadsworth Laboratories has confirmed the H1N1 influenza (Swine flu) virus in a patient in Oneida County.

Lab Confirms County's First H1N1 (Swine) Case Test results from the New York State Wadsworth Laboratory has confirmed the H1N1 influenza (Swine flu) virus in a patient in Oneida County.

The Department of Health announced the locations of its weekend clinics to vaccinate middle and high school students against the H1N1 (swine) flu virus.

Ghana will today [Friday] take delivery of the anti-viral agents Tamiflu from the World Health Organization, as part of measures to combat the threat posed by the 2009 H1N1 strain of influenza, also known as swine flu.

About four students of the school have died from the Influenza H1N1 also known as swine flu in the last two weeks.

Nelson and her colleagues found that flu in pigs «follows long - distance swine movements from the southern U.S. to the Midwest,» with most of the human - origin H1N1 arriving at Midwest hog farms coming from the Southeast, and most of the swine - origin H1N2 coming from the south - central U.S. And that means the Midwest, as the final destination for many of these pigs, is «likely to provide a reservoir for multiple genetically distinct variants to co-circulate and exchange segments via re-assortment because of the continual importation of swine influenza viruses from other regions,» the researchers noted.

For the health agencies battling swine flu (recently renamed H1N1), it's a tricky balance: Be honest and clear without setting off a panic.

Health officials around the world had assumed the drug was as effective as claimed and recommended Tamiflu for patients during the recent h1n1, or swine flu, pandemic.

The vaccine's effectiveness suggests there must be pre-existing cell - mediated immunity, possibly because of similarities between the surface proteins on swine flu and the seasonal H1N1 flu that emerged in 1977.

Treatment plans are shaken by the discovery of swine flu that is resistant to the antiviral drug Tamiflu and the realisation that the H1N1 vaccine is growing only half as fast as the ordinary flu vaccine.

The 2009 H1N1 strain, which killed more than 4,000 people worldwide, incorporated pieces of avian, human and swine flu subtypes through reassortment.

It is most often associated with the H1N1 subtype, which was behind the 1976 swine flu scare.

The first cases were reported in the United States in March 2009 but the new virus spread rapidly to other countries and in June 2009 the WHO declared a pandemic caused by this strain, known as influenza A (H1N1) pdm09, or «swine flu».

The new study examined the effects of three types of influenza A — H1N1, the strain behind 2009's swine flu outbreak; H7N7, a dangerous strain that only rarely infects people; and H3N2, the strain behind much of the 2017 — 2018 flu season misery (SN: 2/17/18, p. 12).

Steve: Check out our ongoing coverage of the swine flu, which I [ha] s already mutated semantically to become the H1N1 flu at www.SciAm.com.

Sales of pork plunged in 2009 when the new H1N1 was identified as swine flu, a reference to the fact it was comprised mainly of genes from flu viruses that circulate in pigs.

11 March First documented symptoms (as of 5 May) in a Mexico City resident who later would be found to have confirmed infection with A (H1N1) swine flu.

As yet another day goes by with the World Health Organization (WHO) not declaring that the swine flu outbreak is a full - scale pandemic, more questions are surfacing about why this novel H1N1 has not spread as easily in European and Asian communities as it has in the United States, Mexico, and perhaps Canada.

Novartis announced in a press statement today that it has made the first batch of vaccine against the A (H1N1) influenza virus causing the swine flu pandemic.

Although the world's attention is focused on the novel H1N1 virus causing the swine flu pandemic, H3N2, a seasonal strain of influenza, has popped up in many East Asian countries — and some variants in circulation may outfox the seasonal vaccine in use.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans to release a detailed report that says some older people have antibodies that react to the novel H1N1 virus behind the swine flu outbreak.

«Swine flu outbreak in India raises concern: New strain of H1N1 may carry dangerous mutations.»

Since December, an outbreak of swine flu in India has killed more than 1,200 people, and a new MIT study suggests that the strain has acquired mutations that make it more dangerous than previously circulating strains of H1N1 influenza.

The subtype behind the 2009 «swine flu» pandemic is H1N1, which has the same version of neuraminidase as H5N1, but a different version of hemagglutinin.

To find out, the team offered the treatment during the 2009 swine flu pandemic in Hong Kong to 93 people in intensive care who were suffering from H1N1 and had not responded to antivirals.

The H1N1 influenza virus, a new strain known as swine flu that emerged in 2009, spread rapidly to more than 74 countries.