Sentences with phrase «of swine flu»

Brown says there are three further confirmed cases of swine flu in the UK, in addition to the two cases in Scotland: a 12 - year - old girl from Torbay, and two adults, from London and Birmingham.

I know that parents and other schools are getting nervous about the possibility of further outbreak of swine flu in their respective schools.

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.

Whether or not the spread of the swine flu virus constitutes a pandemic has been the subject of debate for many weeks.

There are no cases of the H1N1 strain of swine flu in the UK so far, but in a statement to the Commons today, health secretary Alan Johnson confirmed 25 people were put under investigation.

So although doctors know how many patients are dying of swine flu in hospitals, they don't know what proportion of all cases are life threatening.

An increasing number an influenza experts in the United States are worried that the wave of the swine flu epidemic that has started to hit the country may peak before a vaccine can do much good, a news story in today's issue of Science explains.

In fact, I am so unafraid of the flu that I would be comfortable in a room full of swine flu patients with no mask!

The Kumasi Academy was in the news recently following reports of student deaths that was eventually linked to an outbreak of the swine flu virus.

David Sencer, the director of the CDC who later had to resign [as a result of swine flu], was a friend of mine and put me on the advisory committee having to do with the Fort Dix situation.

You can find our full coverage of swine flu — including breaking news and analysis of the latest developments — here.

Reportedly key members of the team, including executive producer Keiji Inafune, will not be in attendance due to fear of the swine flu epidemic.

Andy Burnham has launched the National Pandemic Flu Service, following news the weekly number of swine flu cases has doubled.

In keeping with the Canadian government's apparently mistaken hypothesis that the origin of the swine flu outbreak likely had nothing to do with Canadian pigs, what if it did?

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.

CDC and health agencies in other countries have been baffled by the lack of severe disease of swine flu outside of Mexico, which now suspects the infection has led to the hospitalization of nearly 2000 people and more than 150 deaths.

Since news of swine flu in the United States first broke last week, Science reporters have been keeping tabs on the latest developments.

Even though fears of the swine flu are subsiding (finally), who wants to bet that this is one bill Congress will approve of?

First, cases of swine flu broke out before the usual flu season; and second, a disproportionate number of young people were reported to be sickened by it.

If that were the case, I would not have went out in public to Cosco or wal - mart after visiting a dying church member in a hospital full of swine flu patiences.

(The symptoms of the swine flu are the same as those of the seasonal flu.)

Nia Griffith MP offers a suggestion for Health Secretary Alan Johnson to include in official guidance on preventing the spread of Swine Flu during a statement made in the House of Commons on Swine Flu.

P.S. 68 in Wakefield closed today along with four other schools on suspicions of swine flu outbreaks.

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

THE first case of swine flu resistant to Tamiflu raises questions about a policy in some countries of giving low, «prophylactic» doses of drugs to those who have come into contact with infected people.

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.

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

As the availability of swine flu vaccine steadily increases, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stepping up its efforts to combat a growing sense of complacency in the country about the pandemic.

14 May A Texan whose pregnant wife died of swine flu takes legal action against the U.S. co-owner of a Mexican pig farm, Granjas Carroll, which he alleges may have kick - started the outbreak.

One reason why the elderly may have antibodies is from exposure to an older cousin of the swine flu strain.

One of the most baffling features of the swine flu outbreak is that, unlike seasonal influenza, severe disease largely does not occur in the elderly.

Nearly 5000 people worldwide are known to have died of swine flu so far.

We know the sequence of the swine flu virus.

Although these might be helpful in curbing transmission of swine flu, excessive or long - term use might also have some negative consequences.

A baby from San Luis Potosí in north - central Mexico was likely infected with the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus on 24 February, making this the earliest case of swine flu yet detected.

Reports of extra encephalitis during outbreaks of seasonal flu in Japan and the US, and most recently of swine flu - infected children hospitalised with neurological symptoms in Dallas, Texas, hint at a related mechanism, however.

CDC's Daniel Jernigan says experiments with ferrets done there suggest that the current vaccine has no power against the H1N1 strain of swine flu now circulating the globe.

Although respirator use made sense at the beginning of the swine flu pandemic, it now appears that H1N1 behaves similarly to seasonal influenza, Dr. Rupp says, so «it does nt make much sense to be using different precautions for seasonal flu than we use for H1N1.»

Are We Ready for the Return of Swine Flu?

We have seen first hand the effects of Swine Flu and Asian Bird Flu.

So, I think it's fair to say that Richard Porter enjoyed the Evo X about as much as a dose of swine flu.

If it's too late, and you need to get life insurance right after a bout of the swine flu, your only immediate option is a policy that doesn't require disclosure of any medical information.

Arroyo said he was confident that the pick - up in the economy and the eradication of swine flu would help boost tourism to the region.

That's why it wasn't surprising Saturday when the World Health Organization concluded that the outbreaks of swine flu focused in central Mexico as well as a school in New York City and several other places around the United States officially constituted «a public health emergency of international concern.»

I am curious about the origin of the swine flu currently radiating out from Mexico.

When President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology spread panic in August 2009 about the purported dangers of a swine flu epidemic breaking out later that year, Alex Newman wrote for The New American at that time: «The co-chair of Obama's advisory council that issued the report, John Holdren, actually co-authored a book titled Ecoscience calling for forced abortions, mass sterilization, and a «planetary regime» with the power to enforce the sick notions.

I thought this article in the NY Times about the failure of models to accurately predict the progression of swine flu cases was moderately instructive.