CENTRAL CITY, Ky. — Health officials in a western Kentucky county say they have confirmed multiple cases of swine flu. The Messenger-Inquirer in Owensboro reports that the state’s health lab on Friday confirmed six cases of the swine flu, also known read more..
The World Health Organisation is recommending that pregnant women should have immediate access to antiviral drugs to treat swine flu because they appear to be more vulnerable, a spokeswoman said Friday. read more..
Argentina has the most swine flu deaths outside the United States, but the virus is still killing fewer people than normal seasonal flu — good news for a world waiting to see how it evolves in the southern winter. read more..
High school coaches view swine flu as threat read more..
More than half of children taking the swine flu drug Tamiflu experience side effects such as nausea and nightmares, research suggests. read more..
Health officials say their count of U.S. swine flu deaths has risen to 353 and swine-flu associated hospitalizations have grown to more than 5,500. read more..
A French official says about 60 crewmembers on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship have been diagnosed with swine flu and confined to their cabins while the ship is in a French port. read more..
South Africa’s swine flu caseload has increased fourfold in two weeks, with 480 confirmed cases as of Friday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said. read more..
Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) — A 58-year-old man with a history of heart disease died from swine flu in Hong Kong yesterday, less than 24 hours after entering hospital, the city government said. read more..
Companies are ramping up production of disposable surgical masks in anticipation of a fall swine flu outbreak, but the Centers for Disease Control don’t always recommend them. read more..
A woman aged in her 30s has become the ninth person with swine flu to die in Queensland. read more..
July 31 (Bloomberg) — Switzerland will be among the “first wave” of countries to receive pandemic flu vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline Plc once an immunization against swine flu is developed. read more..
Greece is to vaccinate its entire population against swine flu, Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos announced on Friday. read more..
Tests have confirmed that swine flu has broken out at a piggery in the central west of New South Wales. read more..
ATHENS (AFP)–Greece is to vaccinate its entire population against swine flu, Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos announced Friday. (END) Dow Jones Newswires 07-31-090549ET Copyright (c) 2009 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. read more..
Swine flu is taking its toll on international travel. Figures from the International Air Transport Association show that the Asia-Pacific region recorded a 14.5 percent fall in demand for flights in June compared with the same month a year ago. Fears read more..
Hong Kong – A 37-year-old swine-flu victim, Dolores Bauzon, died after being given the wrong medicine by a Hong Kong private clinic, a media report said Friday. Bauzon, who developed a fever and sore throat a day after arriving in Hong Kong on June read more..
Mercersburg Academy has sent samples from four students with influenza to the Pennsylvania Department of Health to determine whether they may be cases of swine flu. Wallace Whitworth, the academy’s director of marketing and communications, said four read more..
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Public schools across Puerto Rico will start classes a week late to fight the spread of swine flu, officials announced Wednesday. More than 1,700 suspected and 135 confirmed cases of swine flu have been reported in the U.S read more..
HENDERSONVILLE — A case of swine flu has been confirmed at a Henderson County public school as officials at other districts prepare for the possibility of infections in the new school year. Lab results have confirmed at least one student at Bruce read more..
The Breastfeeding Network charity is seeking to clear up confusion surrounding the issue after a number of worried mothers contacted them saying they had been told to stop by their GP or midwife. The advice comes as health officials said that the read more..
SAN DIEGO—In a July 29 story about swine flu deaths in San Diego County, The Associated Press, relying on information from the county health department, reported erroneously that there had been 13 deaths associated with the flu in that county. Jose read more..
The Health Minister has described the death of a 39-year-old nurse from swine flu as tragic. The woman is believed to be the first health worker in New Zealand to die from the virus. While Tony Ryall stresses it is unclear where the Wellington read more..
CHESAPEAKE,Va – Anna Leger of Norfolk is nearly six months pregnant with her first baby and like many Americans, she is concerned about the increased risk of swine flu. The CDC says out of 45 swine flu deaths reported between mid April and mid June read more..
CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) – The Health Ministry says a Moldovan woman has become the country’s first swine flu victim. A ministry statement says the 24-year-old woman is being treated at the Toma Ciorba hospital for infectious diseases in Chisinau. She read more..
A private doctor wrongly gave antibiotics to a Filipino domestic helper who complained of flu-like symptoms and later died from human swine flu (H1N1), The Standard can reveal. Also yesterday, the World Health Organization warned at least 1 billion read more..
With the swine flu virus hanging on through the heat of summer, health officials are preparing for a spike of cases after schools open in August and for the possibility of providing immunizations through the schools in the fall. State health read more..
As many as 59 airmen at Hurlburt Field are suspected of having the virus, while another four have tested positive. First Special Operations Wing spokeswoman Amy Oliver said Wednesday they won’t be testing the probable cases. Okaloosa County Health read more..
With the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hoping to have 160 million doses of H1N1 swine flu virus vaccine ready before flu season this fall, some are raising concerns over what they see as an effort to rush the drug through safety read more..
LONDON – A new study says pregnant women who get swine flu are at least four times as likely to be hospitalized as other people with the virus. While experts don’t know if pregnant women are more susceptible to swine flu, they say once they are read more..
ATLANTA (AP) — Pregnant women, health care workers and children six months and older should be placed at the front of the line for swine flu vaccinations this fall, a government panel recommended Wednesday. The panel also said those first vaccinated read more..
The concern over a return of swine flu is the focus of a big meeting with the CDC. On Wednesday, a panel made recommendations about who should receive the vaccine first, if and when, one becomes available. There is some surprise about who is left off read more..
Family doctors could see their salaries soar by £27,000 once a swine flu vaccination programme is in place, the Daily Mail can reveal. Yesterday they were trying to thrash out a deal which could see GPs paid £7.51 for every jab they give to read more..
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four summer pages working in the Senate have exhibited symptoms similar to swine flu and have been quarantined, according to the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms. The Senate’s Office of Attending Physician did not plan to test the teenage read more..
Texas Rangers pitcher Vicente Padilla, still weak from the swine flu, was scratched from Tuesday night’s start against the Detroit Tigers. read more..
TUESDAY, July 28 (HealthDay News) — With the first trials of a vaccine against the new H1N1 swine flu set to begin shortly, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will convene a panel of experts Wednesday to recommend a priority list of candidates for the vaccine. read more..
TUESDAY, July 28 (HealthDay News) — Antiviral drug treatment of swine flu may be wasted on the elderly and should be reserved for young people, suggest researchers who created a model of the effect of antiviral treatment on the spread of the H1N1 virus. read more..
A parliamentary committee on Tuesday accused the government of dragging its feet in setting up a swine flu helpline and questioned whether it could cope with a second wave of A(H1N1) later this year. read more..
Swine flu has been hitting pregnant women unusually hard, so they are likely to be among the first group advised to get a new swine flu shot this fall. read more..
A New Zealand woman had a novel defense when she appeared in court on a drunk-driving charge: It was swine flu’s fault. Business manager Deborah Karen Graham sought clemency for the charge in the southern city of Queenstown on Monday, saying the three glasses of wine she had consumed were more potent because she was recovering from the virus. read more..
Many doctors believe that pregnant women should be given first dibs on swine flu vaccine when it becomes available as expected this fall. read more..