 | | | | Infectious Diseases Headlines | | | WASHINGTON (AP) -- With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is -- so far -- more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials say the number of U.S. swine flu cases has reached nearly 34,000, and deaths rose 34 percent in the past week to hit 170.
ATLANTA (AP) -- In a startling measure of just how widely a new disease can spread, researchers accurately plotted swine flu's course around the world by tracking air travel from Mexico.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A potential fall swine flu immunization campaign may involve an unprecedented 600 million doses of vaccine, though officials said Friday they haven't figured out how to administer so many doses or accurately track side effects if a seasonal vaccine is given simultaneously.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Imagine every time you started to speak, you were overcome with a fit of coughing.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tylenol, Excedrin, NyQuil. These household brands and others have come to symbolize safe, convenient relief from the aches and pains of everyday life. But this week the Food and Drug Administration is focusing on a seldom-discussed side effect of the medications: severe liver damage. Since the drugs first became widely available in the 1950s, the FDA has tried to minimize the risks of acetaminophen -- the pain-relieving, fever-reducing ingredient in Tylenol and dozens of other prescription and over-the-counter medications.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials have confirmed a case of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, the leading pharmaceutical weapon against the new virus.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A potential fall swine flu immunization campaign may involve an unprecedented 600 million doses of vaccine, but health officials are still trying to figure out how to find enough workers to administer all those shots.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The government declared an end to a shortage of a childhood vaccine that protects against bacterial meningitis, pneumonia and other serious infections.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials estimate that as many as 1 million Americans now have the new swine flu.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- As the numbers of swine flu cases increase nationally, scientists say underlying medical conditions such as heart or lung problems, asthma and obesity have been linked to serious infections.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Scrapes and bruises aren't all that kids are getting at summer camp this year.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Matthew Davis was a healthy Buffalo teenager who participated in sports before complaining of headaches June 13.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A new Internet data map offers a first-of-its-kind, county-level look at HIV cases in the U.S. and finds the infection rates tend to be highest in the South.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal authorities are investigating a new national outbreak of a bacteria-triggered illness, this time related to a sweet treat treasured by the heartbroken and children-at-heart -- packaged raw cookie dough.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- If you went by statements from the pharmaceutical industry, you might be tempted to think it was nearly time to roll up your sleeve for a swine flu shot.
(Canadian Press) -- In a typical flu season, the Winnipeg hospitals where Dr. Anand Kumar works might see one, maybe two life-threatening cases of viral pneumonia caused by influenza.
(Canadian Press) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control says it's too soon to say if the new swine flu virus is replacing seasonal flu viruses in the Southern Hemisphere where flu season is beginning or underway.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Free Tamiflu will soon be available to some uninsured Utahns, in an effort to stop the spread of H1N1 swine flu.
(Associated Press) -- Here is a look at how homeopathic drugs differ from conventional medicines and dietary supplements.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The first study of U.S. health care workers with swine flu found that many didn't do enough to protect themselves against the virus.
(Associated Press) -- He was like millions of other consumers who sometimes take vitamins or echinacea, hoping to build up his immunity or ward off a cold. He figured alternative remedies were as safe as a spoonful of honey. But that notion washed away with one squirt of a homeopathic cold gel.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- This fall, getting vaccinated against H1N1 flu might be as simple as going back to school.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Consumers should stop using Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel and related products because they can permanently damage the sense of smell, federal health regulators said Tuesday.
LONDON (AP) -- With swine flu now an official pandemic, the race is on among drugmakers to produce a vaccine.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- The antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza are relatively safe for use in pregnant and breastfeeding women, say the authors of review of data that includes previously unpublished evidence.
BASEL, Switzerland (AP) - Swiss pharmaceuticals company Novartis AG said Friday it has successfully produced a first batch of swine flu vaccine weeks ahead of expectations.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Nearly 5,000 new U.S. swine flu cases have been reported in the last week, due partly to its continuing spread in the Northeast.
GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic Thursday -- the first global flu epidemic in 41 years -- as infections in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and elsewhere climbed to nearly 30,000 cases.
ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. health officials say they won't need to change their response now that swine flu has been declared a pandemic.
NEW YORK (AP) -- As early as last August, the swine flu virus may have been spreading among people -- long before it was first recognized in April, scientists reported Thursday.
(Associated Press) -- Flu pandemics -- epidemics on a global scale -- have struck three times in the 20th century and once in the 21st century, varying widely in their severity. Here's a look at the world's flu pandemics.
(Associated Press) -- Under the World Health Organization's alert system for epidemics, phase 6 is the highest level and means a pandemic -- a global epidemic -- is under way. Here's a look at the phases.
GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization is gearing up to declare a swine flu pandemic, a move that could trigger both the large-scale production of vaccines and questions about why the move was delayed for weeks as the virus continued to spread.
GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization said Tuesday a spike in swine flu cases in Australia may push it to finally announce the first flu pandemic in 41 years. It also expressed concern about an unusual rise in severe illness from the disease in Canada.
(Content Works) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) says swine flu has now spread to 73 countries, with 139 deaths from the disease since it was first detected in April.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Think your job's tedious? Try beheading 100 mosquitoes an hour.
GENEVA (Canadian Press) -- The World Health Organization called a meeting of top world scientists on Friday to assess the swine flu outbreak that has killed 125 and infected almost 22,000 people.
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Health officials in a half dozen states reported deaths from swine flu on Thursday, and said all six patients had been diagnosed with other health problems.
AUSTIN, Texas (The New York Times News Service) -- The University of Texas is making its world-class supercomputers available to researchers working to find new ways to treat the H1N1 swine flu virus and other infectious diseases.
GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization says the number of swine flu cases worldwide has reached 19,273 after the United States reported over 1,000 new infections.
GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization said Tuesday it is "getting closer" to declaring a global outbreak of the swine flu virus as the infection appears to be taking hold outside of North America.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- An ocean liner docked in an Australian city on Saturday despite objections raised by port officials over a swine flu outbreak on board that cut short a Great Barrier Reef cruise.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Scientists have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus. The so-called "Lujo" virus infected five people in Zambia and South Africa last fall. Four of them died, but a fifth survived, perhaps helped by a medicine recommended by the scientists.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eeeww. There's a zoo full of critters living on your skin -- a bacterial zoo, that is. Consider your underarm a rain forest. Healthy skin is home to a much wider variety of bacteria than scientists ever knew, says the first big census of our co-inhabitants. And that's not a bad thing, said genetics specialist Julia Segre of the National Institutes of Health, who led the research.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A U.S. health official said a swine flu vaccine could be available as early as October, but only if vaccine production and testing run smoothly this summer.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The world's swine flu death toll reached 100 as two more New Yorkers died while infected with a virus that has sickened more than 12,000 people.
(USA Today) -- The nation's epidemic of new H1N1 flu may have peaked except in New York, New Jersey and New England, a leading federal health expert said Tuesday.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Even if a swine flu vaccine isn't available, publicity over the worldwide outbreak probably will prompt more Americans to get the regular seasonal flu vaccination this fall, health officials say.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Fears of a swine flu epidemic in May spurred public officials -- including President Barack Obama -- to urge people with symptoms to stay home from work.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The huge salmonella outbreak from peanut butter represented a failure of the Food and Drug Administration, that agency's new chiefs declared Tuesday -- one they hope to fix.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A Chicago-area resident has died of swine flu, the first death in Illinois and the 12th nationally, from the illness, health authorities said Monday.
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