A pet cat in Iowa, in the United States was diagnosed with swine flu, the H1N1 virus, which it apparently caught from one of the people living in the house who was diagnosed with the flu as well. The 13-year-old...
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For the fourth time in a little more than four months a student attending California's Palo Alto High School has committed suicide. The most recent occurrence was carried out by jumping in front of...
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References and External Hyper Links: Influenza: H1N1 at the Open Directory Project Swine influenza at the World Health Organization International Society for Infectious Diseases PROMED-mail news updates H1N1flue resource centre of The Lancet ...
" Baxter, the US pharmaceutical giant, reached at least seven huge settlements over the past 12 months, some of them for millions of dollars. The company had been accused of fraud amid allegations that it had overpriced medicines by as much as 1,300%. " Baxter, isn't this...
" A scientist who advises the Government on swine flu is a paid director of a drugs firm making hundreds of millions of pounds from the pandemic. Professor Sir Roy Anderson sits on the Scientific Advisory Group...
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World Health Organization (WHO) says the H1N1 swine flu has killed more than 700 people. The death toll has increased with 300 since the beginning of the month. WHO is currently researching for ways to slow the...
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"he World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global flu pandemic after holding an emergency meeting.It means the swine flu virus is spreading in at least two regions of the world with rising cases being seen in the UK, Australia, Japan and Chile. WHO chief Dr Margaret...
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The World Health Organization is inching closer to raising the infectious disease alert level for the novel H1N1 influenza outbreak to its highest level, indicating that a pandemic has arrived, but has delayed...
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A new form of an infectious disease found in China has simialr properties to AIDS and HIV, however there are differences aswell. Symptoms include fatigue, chronic diarrhea, swollen lymph nodes, and weakened...
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GENEVA – Dozens of countries urged the World Health Organization on Monday to change its criteria for declaring a pandemic, saying the agency must consider how deadly a virus is — not just how far it spreads across the globe.
Fearing a swine flu pandemic declaration...
By, Uwe Paschen. Swine Flu is hitting Japan now. Recently the cases of Swine Flu patients have risen in Japan in spite of quarantines earlier and health alerts. Those affected the most seem to be young and...
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An intergovernmental meeting of the World Health Organisation (WHO), has failed to reach an agreement on sharing influenza virus research material and access to vaccines, with the US placing profits ahead of the threat of wide-scale, world-wide deaths from the current...
According to ABC On-Line news there has been an unfortunate first death of an American unidentified woman who lived near the Mexican border in Texas. The woman who lived in the town of Harlingen,...