The H1N1 Influenza A pandemic outbreak has certainly begun to spread like wildfire here in Toronto and soon worldwide. For me personally it's hitting on both nerves of anxiety and stress combined. My wife is a Registered Nurse at Mount Sinai...
From The Raw Story; Aug. 24, 2009: "Swine flu could infect as much as half of the US population this fall and winter and cause up to 90,000 deaths, President Barack Obama’s science advisers warned...
On Thursday, June 11th, Dr. Margaret Chan, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, issued a statement indicating that enough "scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic" has been met for the WHO to declare Influenza A (H1N1), also known as the swine flu...
The World Health Organisation's director-general Dr. Margaret Chan has officially declared the first flu panemic of the 21st century. She called for an emergency conference call in Geneva to discuss the spread...
A sharp increase in people infected with swine flu in Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines could tip the H1N1 virus into epidemic status, said the World Health Organisation on Wednesday. Over 1,200 people have contracted the virus in Australia, four times the amount...
Forget avian influenza, it is swine flu that could ravage the world as Mexicans are warned not to shake hands in church and have been told to keep at least six feet of separation between each other, and to wear protective masks. Large public gatherings, such as sporting...
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The World Health Organization raised its alert level to four — "two steps short of declaring a pandemic" — on Monday, as reports of those affected or killed by the swine flu virus began to increase across...
Swine Flu is not a new illness and is well known to scientists, but the new strain, A/H1N1 is at pandemic proportions and is easily spread by humans which is new. A version of Swine Flu is seen every year and is often combined with Bird Flu, but the newest version...
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