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Main Category: Veterinary Also Included In: Flu / Cold / SARS ; Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Article Date: 20 Nov 2009 - 1:00 PST printer friendly view / write opinions rate article PurinaCare Pet Health Insurance, which is committed to help pet owners provide a lifetime of care for their dogs and cats, is alerting dog owners to the dangers ...

Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Flu / Cold / SARS ; Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses ; Public Health Article Date: 19 Nov 2009 - 3:00 PST The Alabama Department of Public Health will begin offering nasal mist flu vaccine to kindergarten through third grade students in Alabama schools at voluntary H1N1 influenza vaccination ...

Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu -- most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms -- have failed to contain the disease.

Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Flu / Cold / SARS ; Respiratory / Asthma ; Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 19 Nov 2009 - 2:00 PST Some 2.5 million pilgrims are expected at holy sites in Saudi Arabia for the 2009 Hajj, expected to begin around November 25.

China may have had more H1N1 flu deaths than have been reported, with some local governments possibly concealing suspect cases, a prominent Chinese medical expert said in an interview published on Thursday.

When news broke earlier this year of a potentially deadly swine flu, H1N1, epidemic, the impact was felt around the world.

Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Bird Flu / Avian Flu ; Flu / Cold / SARS Article Date: 17 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST printer friendly view / write opinions rate article New methods of studying avian influenza strains and visually mapping their movement around the world will help scientists more quickly learn the behavior of the pandemic H1N1 ...

Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Flu / Cold / SARS ; Immune System / Vaccines ; Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 17 Nov 2009 - 5:00 PST Researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology have found that previous influenza infections may provide at least some level of immunity to the H1N1 "swine" flu .

Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Flu / Cold / SARS ; Pediatrics / Children's Health ; Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals Article Date: 17 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of the CSL Limited's seasonal and 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccines to include children ages 6 months and older.

The confusion and, in some places, chaos on the ground in the reaction to the H1N1 flu pandemic highlights a simple fact: Canada requires a single, central strong leader to co-ordinate official response to public health threats.

Published: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 4:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 2:12 a.m. If someone were to ask me if I plan to get the swine flu vaccine shot, I would tell them flat out: "No way!" I do not believe all this "pandemic" hype and scare tactics.

Immune System / Vaccines Flu / Cold / SARS Article Date: 12 Nov 2009 CSL Biotherapies, a subsidiary of CSL Limited , one of the world's leading manufacturers of influenza vaccine, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the company's application for accelerated approval of its seasonal flu vaccine, Afluria for use in the ...

Twice in recent years, first with SARS and now with H1N1, Canada's readiness to deal with a pandemic has been tested.

Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Flu / Cold / SARS ; Immune System / Vaccines ; Public Health Article Date: 11 Nov 2009 - 5:00 PST Dr.

Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Flu / Cold / SARS ; Respiratory / Asthma ; Public Health Article Date: 09 Nov 2009 - 3:00 PST On November 10, 2009 at 12:00 noon EST Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq and National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Shawn Atleo will co-host a Virtual Summit on H1N1 preparedness for First Nations ...

Can cheap and readily available treatments like steroids and cholesterol-lowering statin drugs help save the sickest of H1N1 patients? New efforts by researchers in Canada, the United States and France could help answer this pressing question.

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Internet charlatans are responding to the shortage of swine flu vaccine by offering questionable remedies.

Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Flu / Cold / SARS ; Public Health Article Date: 05 Nov 2009 - 9:00 PST "My body aches and my head is throbbing.

However, this issue has never been fully elucidated. Based on the premise that SARS patients belonging to a given genotype group having a significantly higher SARS infection rate than others would imply that genotype group being more susceptible, we make use of a compartmental model describing disease transmission dynamics and clinical and gene ...