Showing posts with label flu pandemic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flu pandemic. Show all posts
Monday, June 25, 2012

H1N1 Death Toll May Be 15 Times Higher Than Previously Reported

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An Algerian doctor prepares a vaccine dose against the H1N1 flu in 2009 in a hospital in Algiers. CNN Swine Flu Outbreak 15 Times Deadlier T...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Avian Flu Paper On Mutant-Flu Research To Be Published

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Dutch authorities say work on an avian flu virus that is transmissible between mammals cannot be published without an export permit. MEDICAL...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Human: Contagion: Is a Killer Virus Out There? (Video)

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Friday, February 17, 2012

Despite Bio-Terrorism Fears, H5N1 Research Will Be 'Eventually' Published

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An image taken through an electronic microscope of the H5N1 virus, also known as the "bird flu." Virologist Ron Fouchier of the Er...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Pandora's Box Has Already Been Opened For Bio-Terrorists

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Details Of Secret Experiments On Deadly Man-Made Bird Flu That Kills Over Half Of The People It Infects WILL Get Out, Says Bioterrorism Watc...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Fears Of Bioterrorism Halts Research On Mutant Bird Flu

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video platform video management video solutions video player Bioterror Fears Halt Research On Mutant Bird Flu -- BBC Scientists who created ...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Was The Threat of H1N1 Flu Exaggerated?

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Win McNamee / Getty From Time Magazine: By the summer of 2009, shortly after the H1N1 flu pandemic had first emerged, there was a waiting li...
Saturday, January 2, 2010

Swine Flu Less Contagious Than Other Pandemic Strains

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From USA Today: MILWAUKEE (AP) — How contagious is swine flu? Less than the novel viruses that have caused big world outbreaks in the past, ...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

The H1N1 Pandemic: Is A Second Wave Possible?

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A woman wears a mask in Beijing on Dec. 2, 2009. Peter Parks / AFP / Getty From Time Magazine: Since early November, cases of H1N1 have cont...
Friday, December 11, 2009

Swine Flu Has Hit About 1 In 6 Americans, CDC Says

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From The L.A. Times: Although nearly 10,000 have died from H1N1, that is a lower mortality rate than in regular flu seasons, the CDC chief s...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Arming The Immune System Against H1N1

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Image: Defense mechanism: Researchers creating a new vaccine against H1N1 hope to harness the power of the immune system's dendritic cel...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Norwegian Scientists Detect Mutated Form Of Swine Flu

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From The Washington Post: Norwegian scientists detect mutated form of swine flu. Scientists in Norway announced Friday they had detected a m...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

British Scientists Testing Ukrainian 'Super Flu' That Has Killed 189 People

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Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (L) visits flu victims at a hospital in the western Ukrainian city of Lutsk From The Daily Mai...
Friday, November 13, 2009

Behind The CDC's Soaring H1N1 Death Totals

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From Time Magazine: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Thursday updated estimates of the number of H1N1 infect...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Flu Spray vs. Shot: Is One Better?

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From Discovery News: My four-year-old got her swine flu vaccination yesterday. At the time, I was relieved when the school nurse pulled out ...
Friday, November 6, 2009

A Simple Sneeze Raises Fear of Death

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From Live Science: In the current atmosphere of heightened concern over the H1N1 virus, the everyday sneeze can trigger fears of totally unr...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

I Can Has Swine Flu? A Cat Comes Down with H1N1

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Photo: Michael Waine / Corbis From Time Magazine: For all the attention that has whirled around H1N1 in recent months, it seems that one vu...

Policy Decisions Slow H1N1 Vaccine Production

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From Future Pundit: Why is H1N1 influenza vaccine coming out so slowly in the United States? Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former FDA deputy commiss...
Friday, October 30, 2009

Timeline: The Secret History Of Swine Flu

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16 August 1957: a nurse at Montefiore Hospital gets the first Asian flu vaccine shot in New York (Image: Associated Press) From New Scientis...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

CDC: 5.7M Swine Flu Cases In First Few Months

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From Time Magazine: (ATLANTA) — As many as 5.7 million Americans were infected with swine flu during the first few months of the pandemic, a...