Epidemic News

Officials in Hong Kong say they have detected a case of swine flu which is resistant to Tamiflu, the main treatment for the infection.

Fri Jul 3, 2009 8:27am EDT - A health official takes the body temperatures of arriving travelers at Tribhuwan International airport in Kathmandu June 30, 2009.

A free swine flu vaccination is to be offered to the general population in the coming months, as part of a major plan to avoid the worst affects of a global pandemic.

BEIJING: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday called for continued vigilance against the global pandemic of the A influenza and urged positive and scientific measures to cope with it.

Leading health experts are throwing cold water on Internet-based discussions suggesting "swine-flu parties" as a way to build immunity in children in case the virus mutates into something more severe.

The World Health Organisation still expects the swine flu pandemic to subside in the northern hemisphere over the summer, despite its persistence in the likes of the United States and Britain.

Swine flu is running wild in the Southern Hemisphere and is spreading rapidly through Europe, with Britain projected to reach 100,000 daily cases by the end of August.

Fri Jul 3, 2009 9:49am EDT -From Google Images . NEW YORK - Since its opening last week, camp counselors at New Jersey's Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect door knobs, take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind the campers not to share canned sodas.

The new H1N1 influenza strain may be just a little less catching than seasonal flu, but seems a little better able to cause stomach upsets, researchers reported on Thursday.

With reports of one confirmed H1N1 case in Guam, the CNMI Department of Public Health is urging the public not to panic, as there is no confirmed H1N1 flu case in the CNMI and to follow its guidelines on how to avoid getting sick.

Government moves to 'treatment phase' as health secretary says infection rate could reach 100,000 a day by end of August Swine flu is spreading so rapidly across Britain that there could be 100,000 new cases a day by the end of next month, the health secretary, Andy Burnham, said today.

The Ohio Department of Health confirmed Thursday that a Butler County male in his 40s, who was infected with H1N1 influenza, died June 29.

The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

BRITAIN'S health minister Andy Burnham says the country could have 100,000 new cases of swine flu every day by August.

Vaccine developer Novavax Inc. has signed a deal with Spain's health ministry and a specialty drugmaker there to license its genetically engineered technology to produce pandemic and seasonal flu vaccines and build that country's first vaccine-making plant.

Swine flu patients in Mexico were young and many were healthy before developing severe infections, doctors reported on Monday.

With two new confirmed cases of pandemic H1N1 influenza - one in Colquitt County and the other in Thomas County - Southwest Health District's count of patients with the disease has risen to five, says Southwest Health District Health Director Dr.

The World Health Organization said Wednesday it is working to mathematically model the spread of swine flu in an attempt to better understand how the outbreak developed from a handful of cases to a global epidemic in less than two months.

It's time for the nation's annual obesity rankings and, outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news.

In an article published online on June 29 by the New England Journal of Medicine , authors Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Jeffery K. Taubenberger, M.D., Ph.D., and David M. Morens, M.D., argue that we have lived in an influenza pandemic era since 1918, and they describe how the novel 2009 H1N1 virus now circling the globe is yet another manifestation of ...