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  1. Swine Flu in the UK

    NHS Scotland Confidential Health Information and Self Care Advice for Scotland http://www.nhs24.com/content/default.asp?page=s8_3&nodes=984 This is a really great idea currently being used in...
  2. Swine Flu in the UK

    Swine Flu Clinics Organized http://www.imn.ie/index.php/current-issue/news/1829-swine-flu-clinics-organised (hat tip
  3. Swine Flu in Australia/New Zealand

    Masks protect against swine flu? http://www.ashburtonguardian.co.nz/index.asp?articleid=13010 Whoa! Where are their N95 masks? The masks that they are wearing are appropriate only for use by the...
  4. Any News on a Vaccine Yet?

    Canada Moves Toward Swine Flu Vaccinations http://news.therecord.com/article/559775 It would be smart to concentrate on those at the highest risk first particularly with the first available batches of...
  5. Evidence of swine flu risk to pregnant women rises

    Buenos Aires, Argentina http://www.buenosairesherald.com/BreakingNews/View/4824 There were two young pregnant women that died in Buenos Aires....
  6. Evidence of swine flu risk to pregnant women rises

    Altamonte Springs, Florida http://www.wesh.com/health/19836231/detail.html I find it so bizarre that the reporter says it is unknown if this poor woman traveled recently as if this disease has not...
  7. Evidence of swine flu risk to pregnant women rises

    I am going to list all of the pregnant cases that I know of as having been affected by swine H1N1. These are in addition to the Scottish woman mentioned in the last link and the 6 women on vents in...
  8. Surge of Flu Cases in Argentina and Chile

    Here is a video in English on the Argentine situation. Reminds me of the early reports coming out of Mexico.
  9. http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/swineflu/news/jun2509tamiflu-brjw.html Just to clarify because they are not mentioning this, H3N2, seasonal influenza, Type A, is resistant to...
  10. Any News on a Vaccine Yet?

    Large-scale H1N1 vaccine production begins at Sanofi-Pasteur
  11. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    Oregon
  12. Watching the Pandemic Evolve in Utah

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705312630/2-more-Utahns-die-from-H1N1-flu.html?pg=1 This still seems like a lot of deaths... (hat tip
  13. http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=254953&postcount=121 so, the cdc is aware of this change... well, they could just ask the chinese for the clinical data, couldn't they? they just...
  14. Any News on a Vaccine Yet?

    Protein Sciences, Connecticut vaccine maker, forced to bankruptcy http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2009/06/22/business/421347.txt So much for the good
  15. Any News on a Vaccine Yet?

    HHS Announces Advanced Development Contract for New Way to Make Flu Vaccine http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2009pres/06/20090623c.html This is the new cell based technology, said to be faster than using...
  16. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155052.php One group of scientists wants to give a bigger dose of Tamiflu than WHO currently recommends to treat bird flu cases. It's understandable. Most of...
  17. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    Oregon http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/oregons_second_swine_flu_death.html Kids do not normally die of flu near the end of June, and we are not seeing people over 65 years old dying...
  18. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    A very difficult story to read of the death of a child in Brampton, Canada. This is the same six year old child that we knew about. It appears that she did not die at home. She was seen by health care...
  19. Tests being done for swine?

    If someone more knowledgeable about these tests could provide more info, I would be grateful. This is not my area of expertise. What I understand so far is in the next three sentences. The rapid flu...
  20. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    State's only swine flu death still a mystery http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/06/23/masss_only_swine_flu_death_still_a_mystery/ (hat tip
  21. False Negative Swine Flu Tests

    Swine flu looks like any other flu although with this flu there can be GI symptoms as well, and not just in kids. There may be fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache,...
  22. Any News on a Vaccine Yet?

    http://chealth.canoe.ca/channel_health_news_details.asp?news_id=28342&news_channel_id=145&channel_id=145 You may want to consider the pneumovax also although it appears that viral rather than...
  23. Pandemic Reality Check

    Pandemic Reality Check http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/22/AR2009062202386.html John M. Barry is a distinguished scholar at the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at...
  24. More Commentary on PB2 E627K
  25. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    6-year-old Ont. girl with swine flu dies http://www.montrealgazette.com/Health/year+girl+with+swine+dies/1721463/story.html The fact that they called a press conference because of this death indicates...