Sentences with phrase «new swine flu»

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Dr. Daines gives listeners an update on the swine flu outbreak and discusses where the virus has been found in New York.

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

There is a new issue on Governor Paterson's plate — the swine flu outbreak.

Swine flu: Three new cases have emerged.

The move to mandate paid sick leave in New York City was propelled last year by the fear of the spread of swine flu.

Is a new strain of H3N2 swine flu a danger to public health or just to the reputations of public health experts?

GREEK doctors and flu scientists are saying what New Scientist revealed two weeks ago: swine flu could be spreading round Europe undetected because people without known links to flu aren't being tested (see «Europe should test more broadly for swine flu»).

The first cases of a new type of swine flu are reported in California and Texas in late March.

The authors confirm that the new strain is comprised of segments from swine flu strains known to circulate in Europe, Asia and North America, but that this combination has not previously been seen and appears to have been evolving independently from its parent strains for some time.

The method is relatively new, but far bacteria - based vaccines have proven effective: A seasonal flu vaccine produced by VaxInnate successfully protected humans in clinical trials, and the company's recently tested swine flu vaccine immunized mice against the virus.

Kilbourne, then at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City, specialized in developing vaccines to specific flu strains and was quickly recruited to help combat a feared swine flu epidemic.

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).

Then, a strain of swine flu hit soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, setting off panic and efforts to vaccinate 40 million people.

With a new, easily transmissible swine flu already circling the globe, scientists are understandably nervous.

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.

Put another way, bird flu in Indonesia is about 8,000 times as deadly as the swine flu virus now making the rounds, according to global health expert Laurie Garrett of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.

The cases leave public health authorities in the U.S. and elsewhere wondering if a new swine - origin flu virus is circulating at low levels among humans — and what needs to be done if that is indeed happening.

Mexico is there already, WHO says, and it's keeping a close watch on New York City, where the swine flu has spread through at least one school.

New data from the United States and the United Kingdom hint that the second wave of the swine flu pandemic may have peaked in these countries.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published new details about swine flu cases in the United States.

Meanwhile, New York City is looking into possible swine flu cases, and the WHO has decided not to raise its pandemic threat level, although it did call the situation a «public health emergency of international concern.»

The need for new antiflu drugs is increasingly urgent, as several recent flu strains, including the swine flu, have developed resistance to currently available treatments such as Tamiflu.

U.S. President Barack Obama sends a letter to Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, asking Congress to set aside nearly $ 10 billion new dollars for swine flu.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that it has not found any new cases of swine flu in the country other than the eight identified earlier.

THE swine flu virus has been a serious pandemic threat for years, New Scientist can reveal — but research into its potential has been neglected compared with other kinds of flu.

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

A VACCINE against the Mexican swine flu sweeping the world is likely to arrive too late for most people, vaccine officials told New Scientist between a flurry of high - level industry meetings this week.

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

Pig studies have taken on a new cachet because of the swine origins of the 2009 A (H1N1) strain that's causing the current pandemic — and the pig flu research community's eerily prescient predictions that something like it was bound to make headway in humans.

Published in ACS» Journal of Proteome Research, it provides new insights into why older people were better able to fight off the new strains of «bird» flu and «swine» flu than younger people.

This intriguing idea would explain why swine flu's autumn wave has been slow to take off in some countries and point to new ways to fight flu

There's yet another new «patient zero» in the swine flu pandemic.

New figures from the US and UK back up earlier suspicions that swine flu is mild in most but very severe in a few

Doctors and flu scientists are saying what New Scientist revealed two weeks ago: swine flu could be spreading round Europe undetected because many ill people aren't being tested

New strains come too late to beat the expected autumn wave of swine flu but could speed up vaccine production from mid-November

Statistics from the US indicating a link between swine flu deaths and obesity point to potential new ways to fend off the virus

But in China, where comparatively few people were vaccinated, authorities also registered a nearly sevenfold spike in new narcolepsy cases during the swine flu year.

Two vaccines for swine flu — a nasal spray that contains weakened virus and a shot that contains inactivated virus — were approved in September, but skepticism and worry about such new vaccines may prevent people from taking advantage of them.

Worth noting: The New York City Health Department says that your doctor cant diagnose swine flu because tests available to them cant discern between normal seasonal flu and swine flu.

The federal agency reported Monday that there were 40 confirmed US cases of swine flu, which were mostly mild infections seen in New York, Ohio, Kansas, Texas, and California.

The facts: As Im writing this on Thursday afternoon, April 30, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov) report that 50 people in New York have been confirmed as having the swine flu.

Every winter fear tactics are used to encourage people to get vaccines to protect themselves from the «dangerous» flu and every few years the news media hypes a new flu scare — swine flu, Asian flu, etc..

Swine Flu guaranteed that Dead Rising 2 won't be shown at this year's E3, but that doesn't mean there isn't anything new to see when it comes to the highly - anticipated, zombie - killing simulator.

If this national standards endeavor were a new drug for fighting swine flu or breast cancer, the FDA would subject it to rigorous long - term «field trials» to determine both its safety and its efficacy before releasing it for widespread use.

New FluSure XP, when used with FluSure ® Pandemic as part of the FluSure XP Defense System ™, helps guard against 9 out of 10 of the most current flu strains that threaten swine herds today.8 The FluSure XP Defense System also includes SIV surveillance, diagnostics, research and development, and manufacturing support from Pfizer Animal Health.

This month, the new news is that H1N1 «swine flu» has been discovered in African pigs.