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Bird Flu makes a Return
According to this Times of India report, Avian or Bird Flu, the H5N1 virus has raised its hoary head once again, months after the country had been declared bird flu free. This will compound the worries of the health authorities already struggling to contain the H1N1 Swine flu pandemic that currently has infected over 28 [...]
World Bank Grants Extension of Aid to India in view of Swine Flu Pandemic
The World Bank (WB) has granted an extension and grant-in-aid to India for implementation of the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) in some states, including Maharashtra due to the ongoing swine flu pandemic in the country according to this Times of India report. In 2004, the World Bank had approved $68 million for India to [...]
Swine Flu Vaccine Update
Prevention is better than cure and this is certainly true for the H1 N1 Swine flu pandemic, for which there are several recommended dos and don’ts to prevent its spread. Chief among the preventive measures is the much awaited Swine flu vaccine, which is yet to reach India. The indigenously developed Swine flu vaccines are [...]
Karnataka Prepares for Second Wave of Swine Flu; National Emergency in the US
The H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic is not on the vane, people all over the world continue to die from it, and the death toll in India has now crossed 444 in the number of fatalities resulting from the virus. In Karnataka the death toll is up to 111 and the authorities have said that they [...]
CNN Reporter Sanjay Gupta Gets Swine Flu
In something of an irony, CNN’s chief medical correspondent has been diagnosed as having Swine Flu. Both, he and camera man, Scottie McWhinnie, were diagnosed with the H1N1 Swine Flu virus when reporting from Afghanistan. The usual symptoms of nausea, body pain, high fevers, the lack of appetite, sinus congestion, body aches, hacking, were all [...]
Swine Flu Could Infect Half Of United States Population
One of the most widely circulated stories on the internet recently about the H1N1 Swine Flu virus pandemic is that the US presidential panel has given a grim portend of the Swine Flu crisis that its likely impact on the population of United States. In a doleful prophecy, it is being predicted by President Barack [...]
Swine Flu Affects More Severe Among Poor, The Rural Populace
Experts have suggested that the H1N1 Swine Flu virus is likely to affect developing countries more because of a less equipped and dependable health care system, because of higher population pressure and because of inadequate resources per capita. People in the developed world have access to better health care and medical facilities and they have [...]
H1N1 Flu Outbreak Map
View 2009 H1N1 Flu Outbreak Map in a larger map
Best Way To Stop Flu: Vaccinate Schoolchildren
The best way to protect society’s most vulnerable from the flu is to vaccinate school-age children and their parents, new research suggests. Kids already top the government’s priority list for swine-flu shots this year because that new influenza strain targets the young. That’s unusual, as flu usually is most dangerous to older adults. But Thursday’s [...]