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 Swine Flu Soars in England 


Jul 16, 09 5:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Diagnosed cases of swine flu have jumped sixfold in some parts of England over the last week, the Guardian reports. Suspected cases have risen almost 50% across the country. The pandemic has killed 16 people in the UK so far. British doctors say they are being overwhelmed by patients demanding... More »

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Fears Mount as WHO Declares Swine Flu 'Unstoppable'

Agency orders worldwide vaccines

Jul 14, 09 5:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Concerns continue to mount about swine flu in the wake of the World Health Organization's declaration that the illness is "unstoppable" and the deaths in Britain of two apparently strong individuals, a 6-year-old girl and a doctor. WHO officials are calling for worldwide vaccines to protect populations before they... More »

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 What if Swine Flu 
 Meets Bird Flu? 

A hybrid could stymie vaccines, increase disease's killing power

Jun 14, 09 8:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Among the scarier prospects for the future of swine flu, which has reached pandemic status but killed relatively few people, is that it mixes with bird flu to form a lethal hybrid. Jokes about flying pigs aside, a mix of the easily spreadable H1N1 and the especially virulent bird flu... More »

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UPDATED

 WHO Declares 
 Swine Flu Pandemic 

H1N1 has spread to 74 countries, but may be milder than first thought

Jun 11, 09 10:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The World Health Organization has declared the first influenza pandemic since 1968, Reuters reports. Although the current outbreak has caused mostly mild cases of the illness, today's official declaration that the outbreak has hit phase 6, the highest level, means heightened prevention measures in 193 countries. The designation refers to... More »

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 Mexico City Lifts 
 Flu Restrictions 

Alert level lowered after no new infections reported for a week

May 22, 09 1:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mexico City has lifted all measures introduced to curb the spread of swine flu, and changed its alert status to the lowest level, the BBC reports. "We can calm down now," said Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, telling residents they no longer have to wear masks. No new cases of... More »

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 Feds: Older People 
 Safer From Swine Flu  

People born before 1957 found to carry anti-H1N1 antibodies

May 21, 09 1:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - People born before 1957 appear to have some immunity to the H1N1 virus, the New York Times reports. Tests show that older adults have antibodies that attack the virus, probably because they've been exposed to a similar virus. Experts believe the swine flue virus, like seasonal influenzas before 1957, is... More »

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Swine Flu Came From
Lab: Researcher

WHO investigates claim that H1N1 arose from human error

May 13, 09 4:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The World Health Organization is investigating a claim by an Australian researcher that the swine flu virus may have been created in a laboratory as a result of human error. Adrian Gibbs, who helped develop Tamiflu, said in an interview with Bloomberg that the new strain may have evolved in... More »

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 Flu Spreads, Kills US Man 

Australia, Japan see cases

May 10, 09 7:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Health officials have confimed that a 30-year-old Washington state man died last week of the H1N1 flu strain, raising its US death toll to  three, Reuters reports. He had suffered from heart problems. The disease has now been found in some 2,200 Americans and has spread to Japan and... More »

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Experts: Don't Blame Pigs
for Swine Flu

H1N1 virus likely arose among jet-setting humans

May 9, 09 6:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - The humble porker shouldn't be the one taking the blame for the H1N1 virus, scientists tell the Los Angeles Times. Pigs provided some of the raw material for the virus, experts say, but so did birds and humans. The most likely incubators and spreaders of the virus, according to scientists,... More »

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(Newser) - With panic over the H1N1 flu virus on the wane, some Americans are pondering allowing themselves to become infected in hopes of building immunity against potentially more virulent strains, the New York Times reports. Doctors are split on the idea. "I think it's totally nuts," says a flu... More »

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 Seasonal Flu Strain 
 May Have Mutated 

Canadian researchers say H3N2 virus mutated from vaccine strain

May 6, 09 2:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - A mutated version of the seasonal strain of flu targeted by this season's vaccine has surfaced in a traveler entering Canada from Mexico, Reuters reports. The development complicates the tracking of the virus in Mexico, which has suffered the majority of infections and deaths. The variant was previously found in... More »

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 Flu Fear Swamps US Hospitals 

System strained as people with mild symptoms demand swine flu tests

May 1, 09 4:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hospitals and clinics across the country are being overwhelmed by panicky people seeking to be tested for swine flu, reports the Los Angeles Times. Experts warn the signs of strain already show that the system is ill-equipped to deal with a full-scale outbreak. Health officials struggling to cope with the... More »

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States' Flu Readiness Comes Up 10M Doses Short

Stockpiles of antiviral medication are 10 million doses short

May 1, 09 1:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dozens of states have failed to stockpile enough medication to treat a full-blown flu outbreak, the Washington Post reports. The federal Strategic National Stockpile program has vast amounts of antiviral medication stashed in secret locations around the country, but records show that state governments have 10 million fewer dosages than... More »

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 Confirmed Swine Flu 
 Cases Jump 

WHO investigators find 257 confirmed cases in 11 countries

Apr 30, 09 8:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The number of confirmed swine flu cases worldwide jumped from 147 to 257 yesterday, according to the World Health Organization. Hundreds more suspected cases are still being investigated. The jump in confirmed cases is likely attributable to investigators working through their backlog of specimens rather than rapidly mounting incidents of... More »

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Swine Flu Not So Tough: Scientists

Strain could be less lethal than seasonal flu, analysis shows

Apr 30, 09 8:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists are gradually downgrading their worst-case scenarios for the swine flu outbreak, the Los Angeles Times report. The H1N1 strain initially appeared to have disturbing similarities to the 1918 flu virus, but researchers analyzing genetic data released this week say the strain is less lethal than feared—and may in... More »

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ANALYSIS

Making Swine Flu Vaccine Now Could Backfire

Move could cause global shortage of seasonal flu vaccines

Apr 30, 09 7:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - The world's leading flu vaccine maker is on standby, ready to start cranking out a swine flu vaccine—but doing so might not be the smartest move, Carol Matlack writes in BusinessWeek. Vaccine makers can't shift or expand production easily, Matlack notes, meaning that a switch now could lead... More »

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 Mexico Shuts Down 
 to Stem Outbreak 

Calderón orders citizens to stay home for 5 days

Apr 30, 09 6:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Mexican president told citizens to stay home tomorrow through May 5 for a five-day partial shutdown of the country's economy to reduce the risk of spreading swine flu, Reuters reports. In his first televised address since the outbreak, Felipe Calderón said that "there is no safer place... More »

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 Mexico Fears 1st Fatality 
 Spread Flu Widely 

Census-taker visited hundreds of homes before falling ill

Apr 29, 09 6:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mexican authorities fear that the first person known to have died from swine flu may have been a modern-day Typhoid Mary, the Independent reports. The woman, a government census-taker whose door-to-door home visits in late March and early April put her in contact with some 300 people when the flu... More »

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 Child in Texas Is 
 1st US Swine Flu Death 

Fatality is first outside Mexico since outbreak began

Apr 29, 09 5:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 23-month-old child in Texas has become the first person in the US to die of swine flu, a government official said today. The death of the boy, who traveled from Mexico to seek medical treatment, is the first to take place outside Mexico, where the outbreak began, Reuters reports.... More »

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 Swine Flu Shuts 2nd NY School 

Dozens of children call in sick in second major outbreak in Queens

Apr 29, 09 2:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - A second school in Queens has been shut down after dozens of students suffered symptoms of swine flu, reports the New York Daily News. Cases have also been found in Brooklyn and the Bronx, and an outbreak is suspected at a Catholic school in Manhattan. The public school closed yesterday,... More »

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