H1N1 cases starting to dwindle, even as Tamiflu-resistant cluster detected
The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over.
Officials also said they were investigating several troubling outbreaks of drug-resistant H1N1 but noted they were limited so far [...]
Boy diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, but CDC says no clear link..
A 14-year-old Virginia boy is weak and struggling to walk after coming down with a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome within hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine for swine flu.
Jordan McFarland, a high school athlete from Alexandria, Va., left Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children Tuesday [...]
CDC: 4,000 in U.S. died, including 540 kids, between April and mid-October…
ATLANTA – Swine flu has sickened about 22 million Americans since April and killed nearly 4,000, including 540 children, say startling federal estimates released Thursday.
The figures — a quadrupling of previous death estimates — don’t mean swine flu suddenly has worsened, and most cases [...]
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NEW YORK – Some of New York’s biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism that the hard-to-find vaccine is going first to the privileged.
Hospitals, universities and the Federal Reserve Bank also got doses of the vaccine for employees who need it [...]
ATLANTA – Only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it, according to a new national poll released Friday.
That’s true even for people who are at extra risk for severe complications and should be at the front of the line. The numbers are [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa – A 13-year-old Iowa cat has been infected with swine flu, veterinary and federal officials said Wednesday, and it is believed to be the first case of the H1N1 virus in a feline.
The domestic shorthaired cat was treated last week at Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine in Ames and has [...]
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer
ATLANTA – Health officials said Friday that 76 U.S. children have died of swine flu, including 19 new reports in the past week — more evidence the new virus is unusually dangerous for the young.
The regular flu kills between 46 and 88 children a year, according to the Centers for [...]
By Rob Stein
WASHINGTON – Billions of tax dollars have been paid to giant pharmaceutical companies. Millions of doses of vaccine are on their way to huge warehouses around the country. Thousands of health workers are poised to start injecting into arms and squirting up noses.
The question is: When the swine flu vaccine finally arrives this [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, California – Some 2,000 students at Washington State University have reported symptoms of swine flu, university officials said, in one of the largest reported outbreaks of the virus on a US college campus.
Washington state’s Whitman County, where the school is located said that tests at a state laboratory late last week “confirmed that [...]
