The global number of swine flu deaths has jumped by more than 1,000 in a week, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization. According to the BBC, at least 7,826 people are now known to have died following infection with the H1N1 virus since it first emerged in Mexico in April. The...
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Health officials are seeing a worrying pattern of serious bacterial infections in swine flu patients, mostly among younger adults not normally vulnerable to them, reports Reuters. “We are seeing an increase of serious pneumococcal infections around the country,” Dr. Anne Schuchat of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters. “That is the serious...
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The Flu File is a website that offers both US and global statistics and updates on the H1N1 (Swine flu) pandemic. With all the various media reporting bits and pieces about the H1N1 virus, this is one resource which provides up-to-date information about the disease, down to the tiniest developments.  The site offers a collection of...
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Scam artists have descended in droves offering bogus protection and even cures against the dreaded H1N1 virus.  This is to be expected as it has been replayed for centuries with every real and pretended disease or disaster that mankind has experienced. Some of the useless potions and devices sold that promised to ward off the...
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The U.S. won’t get 195 million H1N1 vaccine doses it had planned for by the end of the year because of production delays, said Nicole Lurie, Health and Human Services assistant secretary for preparedness and response. She said Americans may get 42 million doses by mid-November or 8 million less than earlier U.S. estimates. Health officials...
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Based on the results of a study by Purdue University, the H1N1 vaccine will arrive too late to help most Americans who will be infected during this flu season, according to The Washington Times. The study also estimates that the virus will infect about 60 percent of the U.S. population, although only about 25 percent of...
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In what public health experts said was a misguided attempt to combat swine flu, the Egyptian government ordered the  slaughter of  all the pigs in Egypt this spring. It turns out that a key element vital to Egyptian society was overlooked.  As described in a story in The New York Times, the pigs used to eat...
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More than a quarter-million cases of swine flu have been confirmed around the world with more than 2,800 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.  The news is full of stories about the dreaded H1N1 pandemic.China is set to provide the first H1N1 vaccines and Brazil, so far, reports the most deaths due to the...
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According to a report in today’s FOX News, doctors are reporting a severe form of the H1N1 virus that goes straight to the lungs, causing severe illness in otherwise healthy young people and requiring expensive hospital treatment. Also referred to as the “swine flu”, this update on the pandemic is cause for alarm to global...
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The swine flu pandemic could overwhelm hospital intensive care beds, especially in children’s units, doctors warned last night. Demand for critical care beds could hugely outstrip supply at the peak of the epidemic, expected in the next few months. Reuters has reported that global health officials stepped up efforts to prepare for quick vaccination against the...
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