Fri, 19/06/2009 - 22:57 by Inderjit Singh
Hong Kong, June 19 The number of confirmed influenza A/H1N1 cases continued to rise in most of Asian countries Friday.
New Zealand now reported 216 confirms cases. It was moving to a "manage it" phase as part of its response to the outbreak. The shift in phase reflected the increased spread of the virus, rather than a change in the severity of the illness, said Health Minister Tony Ryall.
"We're remaining in code yellow, we are not moving to code red, this is a reflection of the spread, not the severity, of the flu," he said.
Malaysia declared four more imported cases of A/H1N1 flu Thursday, bringing up the total number of the patients to 27, local media reported Friday.
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Fri, 19/06/2009 - 00:45 by surajdogra
Greensboro, N.C. -- As many as 33 babies may have been exposed accidentally to the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, at a hospital in Greensboro, N.C., hospital officials say.
Officials at Women's Hospital said the infants could have been exposed to the potentially deadly virus by a respiratory therapist who recently had treated an individual with H1N1, the Greensboro News-Record said Thursday.
Dr. Tim Lane, Moses Cone Health System's director for infection prevention, said the infants in the hospitals neonatal intensive care unit are being monitored to determine if they show signs of the infection.
"We have obviously been concerned and have taken a broad proactive approach in starting those babies on preventive therapy," Lane told the newspaper.
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Tue, 16/06/2009 - 02:07 by surajdogra
Washington -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has reissued its warning against Web site marketing of products claiming to cure, prevent or treat the H1N1 flu virus.
The FDA last month warned consumers regarding products related to the 2009 H1N1 flu, also called swine flu. The products are promoted and marketed as to being able to diagnose, mitigate, prevent or cure the virus, but they are not approved, cleared or authorized by the FDA. The agency said it advised operators of offending Web sites to take immediate action to ensure they were not marketing such products.
Since then, the FDA said it has issued more than 50 warning letters to offending Web sites.
Examples of unapproved or unauthorized products targeted by the FDA included a
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Mon, 15/06/2009 - 15:00 by Neka Sehgal
Glasgow, June 15: Just days after the World Health Organization (WHO) labeled the global outbreak a pandemic, Europe recorded its first fatality, a female gravely ill from the influenza at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley.
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Fri, 12/06/2009 - 15:54 by Neka Sehgal
Geneva, June 11: The formal declaration of swine flu as the first global pandemic in 41 years was issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) after elevating the pandemic warning level from five to six, the highest level on its scale.
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Fri, 12/06/2009 - 15:37 by priya markanda
San Francisco, June 11: The second death Thursday of a middle-aged man in Alameda County has been reported by the Public Health Department, which linked the incident to the swine flu. The man, yet not identified, was suffering from chronic health problems too.
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Thu, 11/06/2009 - 21:46 by Inderjit Singh
Edinburgh -- U.S., Chinese and British researchers say the H1N1 swine flu virus was transmitted to humans long before the existing outbreak was noticed.
The scientists said their analysis of the current swine-origin H1N1 influenza outbreak -- declared a pandemic Thursday by the World Health Organization -- calls for the need of systematic surveillance of influenza in swine, and provides evidence that new genetic elements in swine can result in the emergence of viruses with pandemic potential in humans.
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Wed, 10/06/2009 - 03:48 by Salinder Kumar
Geneva, June 10: The World Health Organisation (WHO) is "very close" to announcing a global pandemic for the influenza A(H1N1) virus, also called swine flu, as it continues to spread rapidly, a senior official said.
"We are getting really very close to knowing that we are in a pandemic situation, or I think, declaring that we are in a pandemic situation," WHO Assistant director-general Keiji Fukuda told reporters in Geneva Tuesday.
He said signs of community-level transmission of the virus had appeared in Australia, where more than 1,000 human cases have been confirmed in the past few days.
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Mon, 08/06/2009 - 15:17 by Neka Sehgal
New Orleans, June 8: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, his wife Seletha, and their protection unit, were placed in a designated quarantine location in Shanghai after a passenger on the same flight to China exhibited "signs and symptoms of an influenza-like illness suspected to be of the H1N1 subtype".
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Sun, 07/06/2009 - 11:30 by Neka Sehgal
London, June 6: The number of people with swine flu in the UK is edging closer to 550 mark. According to the Health Protection Agency (HPA) there are reports of 19 new cases in England, 13 cases in Scotland, and one in Northern Ireland, taking the official figure to 541.
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Sat, 06/06/2009 - 12:56 by Camilla Abad
Washington, June 6: The United States’ response to the H1N1 epidemic has been dubbed as good in a recent report; however, it also revealed how the country’s health care system could be overwhelmed if more severe outbreaks occur.
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Mon, 01/06/2009 - 13:59 by Salinder Kumar
Beijing, June 1: The 2009 China Grand Prix has been cancelled because of the global outbreak of influenza A (H1N1), commonly known as swine flu, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has said.
"Due to the ... influenza around the world, the Chinese Weightlifting Association (CWA) decided to cancel the IWF Grand Prix for 2009," said the IWF.
The IWF Grand Prix was scheduled July 26-Aug 2 in east China's Fujian province, the hometown of Olympic weightlifting champions Shi Zhiyong and Zhang Xiangxiang.
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