Influenza News

Asia Pacific News.Net Sunday 5th July, 2009 New Delhi, July 5 : The Chinese mainland confirmed 42 new cases of A/H1N1 influenza till Saturday, bringing the total to 1002.

A MAN with serious medical problems including diabetes has become the second person to die in NSW after contracting swine flu, health authorities say.

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.

As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to take forceful measures to protect public health.

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.

NEW Zealand's capital Wellington is threatening to surpass Melbourne as the swine flu capital of Australasia, an infectious diseases expert says.

The North Central Health District confirmed three cases of H1N1 swine flu in Central Georgia.

One of the state's top public health officials says she was forced out of office because Gov.

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.

Members of President Obama's cabinet will hold a H1N1 Flu Preparedness Summit next week to prepare for the possibility of a more severe outbreak of H1N1 flu.

Schematic presentation and a photograph of transmission cages. The ferrets are housed in clear Perspex transmission cages, in which each inoculated animal was housed individually with a naive ferret.

Scientists have uncovered some intriguing clues about why the new swine flu frequently brings on gastrointestinal distress and vomiting, symptoms not usually associated with seasonal flu.

The health ministry said Thursday it has detected a genetic mutation of the new H1N1 strain of influenza A that develops resistance to Tamiflu, marking the first case of the new influenza in Japan that did not respond to the anti-flu drug.

A southwestern Ohio man died from the H1N1 influenza virus, the Ohio Department of Health confirmed Thursday.

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.

Thu, Jul 2, 2009 Britain faces a projected 100,000 new swine flu cases a day by the end of August and must revamp its flu strategy, the nation's health minister said Thursday.

A 33-year-old Clark County man infected with the swine flu virus died Sunday, Southern Nevada health officials said.

Gov. Chris Gregoire has approved $700,000 in emergency spending to buy more antiviral medicine for the next flu season.

TWICE as many children will die of swine flu in the next 12 months compared to the number of deaths from regular influenza, a leading disease expert said.