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52 min ago | Asia Pacific News .Net

A/H1N1 flu cases exceed 1,000 count in China

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.

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5 hrs ago | NEWS.com.au

Second swine flu death recorded in NSW

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

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9 hrs ago | China Daily

Wen Calls for Continued Vigilance

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.

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

Boston.com

Mexico wins praise for swine flu response

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.

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Canada.com

Swine-flu parties not a good idea: experts

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.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Chickenpox, Family, Kids, Parenting

News.com.au

Wellington to beat Melbourne at swine flu

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

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Oceania, New Zealand, World News, Medicine, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

13WMAZ-TV

3 Swine Flu Cases Confirmed in Central Georgia

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

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McClatchy DC

Alaska health director says she was forced out by Palin

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

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Related Topix: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health

Fri Jul 03, 2009

WINK-TV Fort Myers

WHO sees swine flu tailing off in summer

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.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Winston-Salem Journal

Swine flu is spreading rapidly through Europe, officials say

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.

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CBS News

White House to Hold H1N1 Flu Summit

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.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Bethesda, MD

C-Health

Swine flu transmission studies suggest new virus is here to stay:experts

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.

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Drugs.com

Why Swine Flu Differs From Seasonal Flu

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.

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Kyodo News

Japan's 1st case of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 influenza detected

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.

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Related Topix: Tamiflu, Oseltamivir (generic), Medicine, Medication, Health, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu

Thu Jul 02, 2009

WBNS-TV Columbus

First H1N1 Death Confirmed In Ohio

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

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The San Diego Union-Tribune

Study: New flu inefficient in attacking people

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.

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Las Vegs Sun

Britain braces for 100,000 swine flu cases a day

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.

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Lahonton Valley News

33-year-old man becomes Nevada's second swine flu death

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

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Nevada, Clark County, NV, Medicine, Privacy

KIRO-TV Seattle

Gregoire OKs Emergency Money For Flu Season

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

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu

Wed Jul 01, 2009

News.com.au

Swine flu spread 'will kill more children'

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.

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