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Wed, 06/05/2009 - 15:50 by Jamie Anderson
Washington, May 6: Don’t let the fear of swine flu make you pop that medicine without any rhyme or reason. Experts opine that consuming medicines as a preventive or precautionary measure without having the symptoms of the flu would do more harm than good.
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Mon, 04/05/2009 - 18:48 by Jamie Anderson
Hong Kong, May 4: Authorities swung into action immediately after a 25-year-old Mexican guest tested positive for swine flu in a downtown Hong Kong hotel on Saturday. Close to 200 hotel guests and about 100 staff members were asked to stay in the Metro Park Hotel itself for a period of one week. These people have been put under quarantine to ensure that the virus does not spread.
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Sat, 02/05/2009 - 17:01 by Jyoti Pal
New York, May 2: Quoting a decline in demand for seats to Mexico, most of the largest US airlines cut their services to the country for the time being.
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Sat, 02/05/2009 - 15:24 by Jamie Anderson
Hong Kong, May 2: With the outbreak of the swine flu on their doorstep, the Asian countries are bracing themselves to combat the contagion.
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Fri, 01/05/2009 - 19:53 by Inderjit Singh
Mexico City/Toronto, May 1 Mexico Friday ordered a five-day shutdown as it struggled to contain swine flu that seems to be spreading rapidly with over 450 confirmed cases being reported world over. Passengers disembarking at international airports were checked for fever - a sign indicating it could be swine flu.
The Mexican government suspended non-essential government business and also cancelled all official events during the May Day weekend in an attempt to prevent further spread of swine flu, which is now being called influenza A (H1N1) by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
President Felipe Calderon urged all Mexicans to stay at home until Tuesday. In Mexico City, all restaurants and bars were ordered closed and otherwise busy streets bore a deserted look.
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Fri, 01/05/2009 - 18:16 by Inderjit Singh
Mexico City/New Delhi/Toronto, May 1-- Mexico Friday ordered a five-day shutdown as it struggled to contain swine flu that seems to be spreading rapidly with over 450 confirmed cases being reported world over. Passengers disembarking at international airports were checked for fever - a sign indicating it could be swine flu.
The Mexican government suspended non-essential government business and also cancelled all official events during the May Day weekend in an attempt to prevent further spread of swine flu, which is now being called influenza A (H1N1) by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
President Felipe Calderon urged all Mexicans to stay at home until Tuesday. In Mexico City, all restaurants and bars were ordered closed and otherwise busy streets bore a deserted look.
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Fri, 01/05/2009 - 12:05 by Neka Sehgal
Cairo, April 30: The Egyptian government decided on Wednesday to slaughter all pigs in the country as a precaution to avert the outbreak of the fatal swine flu that has created a panic in different parts of the world.
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Thu, 30/04/2009 - 22:29 by Inderjit Singh
Luxembourg, April 30-- The European Union is not planning to ban travel to Mexico because of the outbreak of swine flu there, diplomatic sources said Thursday at an emergency meeting of EU health ministers in Luxembourg.
Individual member states have the right to bring in travel restrictions if they think this will help prevent the disease spreading, but the EU as a whole is not going to bring in a ban, diplomatic sources said.
Ahead of the meeting, France was the most vocal of a number of EU member states calling for a blanket ban on flights to Mexico, arguing this would limit the spread of swine flu across Europe.
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Thu, 30/04/2009 - 22:11 by Inderjit Singh
New York, April 30-- She won the Best Actress Oscar earlier this year, but Kate Winslet hasn't always been so popular. The stunning star has opened up about being nicknamed "blubber" when she was in school because of her chubby looks.
"I was bullied for being chubby," she said, reports nydailynews.com.
"Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not," she added.
-IANS
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Thu, 30/04/2009 - 22:08 by Inderjit Singh
Washington, April 30 US officials said Thursday the US swine flu confirmed-case total has risen to 109, up from 91 Wednesday.
Richard Besser, acting director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said six people have been hospitalised since the disease outbreak began earlier this month, including the 23-month-old Mexican toddler who died Wednesday in the Houston's children's hospital.
The first suspected case in the nation's capital was reported Thursday, when the World Bank reported that one of its staffers was diagnosed with the disease after a business trip to Mexico earlier this month.
Mexico is the epicentre of the outbreak, with 159 influenza-related deaths.
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Thu, 30/04/2009 - 20:50 by Inderjit Singh
Luxembourg, April 30 The European Union's executive Thursday approved a set of rules for identifying the new form of swine flu as part of its bid to stop the disease raging out of control.
The European Commission has "adopted a common European definition for the novel flu virus", a disease which "has been found to contain genes from pig, bird and human influenza viruses, in a combination that has never been observed before anywhere in the world", the commission said in a statement.
Officials hope that the definition of the disease will make it easier for medics to identify any new cases at an early stage.
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Thu, 30/04/2009 - 16:32 by Salinder Kumar
Stockholm, April 30 : At least 19 people in four European countries were Thursday morning confirmed to have been infected with swine flu while 155 cases were confirmed worldwide, a European health agency reported.
The confirmed European cases were in Britain, Germany, Spain and Austria, the Swedish-based European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said.
In addition, France reported two suspected cases, the agency said. In all but one of the cases in Europe the people had visited Mexico.
The confirmed cases outside Europe included 26 in Mexico and seven deaths, 91 in the US, 19 in Canada, 14 in New Zealand, two in Israel, two in Costa Rica and one in Peru, the ECDC said.
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