The number of public schools in New York City reporting children with flulike symptoms continued to rise Friday, as three more schools in Queens and Brooklyn were closed, bringing the total to six this week, and parents and city officials wrestled with how to handle the growing spread of the disease.
The vaccine industry is waiting for a WHO decision on whether to keep making regular flu vaccine, or whether to switch to vaccines for the current swine flu outbreak.
May 13: Health authorities on Tuesday said one passenger, who had disembarked at the Hyderabad airport, has been referred to health facility for suspected H1N1 influenza virus. The authorities, meanwhile, maintained no positive flu case has been identified in the country so far.
Senior officials from the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) visited the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) and the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD) here on Wednesday.
Pregnant women who get swine flu are at such high risk of complications like pneumonia, dehydration and premature labor that they should be treated at once with the antiviral drug Tamiflu
Whether it is livestock breeding in factory farms and accompanying deforestation that contributes to global warming and zoonotic infections, or increasing automobile density, which depletes fossil fuels and escalates heart and lung diseases by changing activity patterns and air quality, environmental and health concerns are linked by common causes.
? VIRUS SPREADS TO CUBA, CHINA, THAILAND AND FINLAND; STRICT TRAVEL ADVISORIES ISSUED
The swine flu virus was confirmed on Tuesday to have spread to more countries as scientists estimated the new strain could have sickened 23,000 people in Mexico alone before anyone realised it was an epidemic.
Thailand confirms first cases as China suspects a second
The swine-flu virus spread to Thailand Tuesday, while China reported the country's second suspected case of A/H1N1, one day after the country confirmed its first case of the virus.
278 NEW CASES AS U.S. SURPASSES MEXICO AS MOST AFFECTED NATION China confirms 1st H1N1 case
China confirmed its first case of swine flu on the mainland in a Chinese man who recently travelled back from the United States, the Xinhua news agency reported.
