Swine Flu: EU Stops Counting Pandemic Which According to WHO Was …
Sept, 2009:The EU coordinates the methods for diagnosing swine flu . (odd, since the WHO ordered governments to stop counting 1 1/2 months ago!)
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Tom Nolan: How do you monitor swine flu?
Yesterday, reporters descended on Whitehall to hear about the methods of influenza monitoring . Sir Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer led the numbers feast alongside Justin McCracken, chief executive of the Health Protection Agency, and Ian Dalton, the new flu czar. Sir Liam explained what data are being tracked: total number of cases, antiviral usage, hospitalisations and deaths (see pyramid, below).
US to vaccinate millions against swine flu – San Francisco Chronicle
Times Online US to vaccinate millions against swine flu San Francisco Chronicle School-age children will be a key target population for a pandemic flu vaccine in the fall and may get their shots at school in a mass vaccination campaign not seen since the polio epidemics of the 1950s. The federal government should get about 100 … Local swine flu victim was new mom Palm Beach Post Obama Warns of Return of Swine Flu in the Fall New York Times Florida, US brace
Pigs at risk from people as new flu spreads | Science | Reuters
Pigs at risk from people as new flu spreads | Science | Reuters By: Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – There is a growing risk that pigs will catch the new H1N1 flu strain — commonly known as swine flu — from humans, German researchers said on Thursday. Widespread transmission from people to pigs could mix up virus strains further, leading to unpredictable changes in the disease. There have already been a handful of suspected cases of humans passing the current pandemic