Swine flu

AS MANY as 9 out of 10 sick patients phoning the swine flu hotline have been misdiagnosed, a study has revealed. read more..

Deputy editor Alan Cleaver reports daily on the impact of swine flu in West Cumbria, with a particular slant on how the media and the public are reacting to the worsening crisis. read more..

Millions of Muslim pilgrims, many wearing surgical masks, jostled together shoulder-to-shoulder furiously casting pebbles at stone walls representing the devil Saturday — the Haj ritual of highest concern to world health authorities watching for an outbreak of swine flu. read more..

Millions of Muslim pilgrims, many wearing surgical masks, jostled together shoulder-to-shoulder furiously casting pebbles at stone walls representing the devil Saturday — the hajj ritual of highest concern to world health authorities watching for an outbreak of swine flu. read more..

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says isolated cases of drug-resistant swine flu in Britain and the United States have not changed the agency’s assessment of the disease. It says Tamiflu remains highly effective against the vast majority of H1N1 cases. Four cancer patients in a North Carolina hospital tested positive last week for a type of the flu that was resistant to Tamiflu. Five … read more..

Millions of Muslim pilgrims jostled together on Saturday, furiously casting pebbles at stone walls representing the devil, in the hajj ritual of highest concern to world health authorities watching for an outbreak of swine flu. read more..