Sentences with phrase «swine flu pandemic»

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.

As the H1N1 swine flu pandemic marches on, western countries have begun vaccinating their most vulnerable populations against the virus.

Gordon Brown attended an emergency Cobra meeting chaired by health secretary Alan Johnson over the phone today to formulate the government's plans to deal with the possible swine flu pandemic.

WHY did the 2009 swine flu pandemic kill so many more young adults than children?

«2009 swine flu pandemic originated in Mexico, researchers discover.»

Results from the 2009 swine flu pandemic showed patients with more virus - killing immune cells in their blood at the start of the illness, would avoid sever illness, researchers at Imperial College London (ICL) found.

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

As the swine flu pandemic worsens in the UK, what spiritual and practical help can churches offer to their communities?

Federation of Small Businesses urges Health Secretary to adopt proposals to help small firms through the swine flu pandemic

When the swine flu pandemic began in April 2009, Joanna Ellis, 49, faced the biggest challenge of her 17 - year career at the Health Protection Agency's (HPA's) National Influenza Centre (NIC).

The swine flu pandemic was a hoax: scientists, governments and the World Health Organization cooked it up in a vast conspiracy so that vaccine companies could make money.

A meeting on the threat from the MERS coronavirus has been called under a procedure used only once before — for the swine flu pandemic in 2009

Professor Van Tam said:» «The 2009 swine flu pandemic was the first in human history when pandemic vaccines have been available worldwide.

Flu viruses adapted to pigs have less trouble adapting to humans than do bird flu viruses — one pig - adapted virus caused the swine flu pandemic in 2009.

Researchers at Imperial College London asked volunteers to donate blood samples just as the swine flu pandemic was getting underway and report any symptoms they experienced over the next two flu seasons.

«We found that the vaccines produced against the swine flu pandemic in 2009 were very effective in both preventing influenza infection and reducing the chances of hospital admission due to flu.

But the widespread perception that the 2009 swine flu pandemic was much ado about nothing means health authorities risk further damage to their already battered credibility if they sound an alarm and this virus turns out to be a dud.

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.

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.

U.S. Secretary of Health Kathleen Sebelius announced today that the donation will go to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to combat the novel H1N1 virus driving the swine flu pandemic.

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.

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.

As public health officials have stressed since the swine flu pandemic surfaced last April, influenza is unpredictable.

The virus causing the swine flu pandemic has spread to turkeys in Chile, slowed its spread in people in the Southern Hemisphere and in the United Kingdom, and is thriving in human populations in Alaska, Maine, and Japan.

A Pulitzer Prize - winning reporter and best - selling author, lately, Garrett has focused much of her attention on the swine flu pandemic.

AS THE dust settles from the swine flu pandemic, the notion that it was no worse than seasonal flu persists.

AS THE swine flu pandemic continues to sweep the world, what do public health officials, epidemiologists and flu researchers think will happen in the coming months?

While the world's flu fighters have concentrated on countering the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, avian influenza H5N1 has quietly continued to take its toll on both poultry and humans.

The first occasion was to declare the swine flu pandemic of 2009.

Eight months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the swine flu pandemic officially over, an independent expert group has given the global health agency a decidedly mixed evaluation of how it handled the entire episode, from the outbreak's frightening beginning to its lackluster end.

But he said the finding underscores a point that he and many colleagues have been shouting from the rooftops since the swine flu pandemic surfaced: Most regions of the world — including North America and Europe — are far too lax about routinely checking pigs for novel flu viruses.

The novel H1N1 virus behind the swine flu pandemic has in many ways proved less frightening than initially feared.

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

Countries which had standing vaccine orders that were activated by the swine flu pandemic are now trying to limit orders and sell or give away vaccine, as demand is low.

Dangerous flu viruses are evolving in pigs, yet pigs are under little more surveillance now than they were before the 2009 swine flu pandemic

There is now evidence that the drug saved lives during the 2009 swine flu pandemic (see «Evidence that Tamiflu reduces deaths in pandemic flu «-RRB-.

As expected, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved four vaccines against the novel H1N1 virus that is causing the swine flu pandemic.

THE swine flu pandemic is intensifying.

And without it, the autoimmune hypothesis for narcolepsy languished — until the swine flu pandemic of 2009.

Besides H3N2, the two other flu strains causing illness are H1N1, an influenza strain that caused the 2009 - 2010 swine flu pandemic but is now a regular human flu virus, and an influenza B strain.

British research on hundreds of people which began during the 2009 swine flu pandemic has examined why it was that some were more likely than others to be struck down by the illness.

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.»

Mexico City is expecting tourist arrival numbers to rise by a third next year on the back of free public viewing of 2010 World Cup games, a new law allowing same - sex marriages, as well as the recovery from the swine flu pandemic.

[As novel H1N1 flu outbreaks can indeed be very deadly — deadly enough to also categorise this story under Demography — it means for the world population as a whole the swine flu pandemic of 2009 can actually be considered a gift from above, as it has harnessed us.]

The fourth pandemic is the greatly hyped «Mexican» flu, or [but this risks to insult our pink friends] the swine flu pandemic of 2009 — also of the H1N1 strain.

They also note that bird migration routes determine the chances of these birds making contact with human livestock and that «gene - swapping between avian and pig influenza viruses was a factor in the 2009 swine flu pandemic.»

Columnist John DeCock takes on factory farms» role in the swine flu pandemic and beyond in this insightful piece.

Between the stinky economy and swine flu pandemic, I'd say things are looking a little dismal out there!