Brock Lesnar announced that he will postpone his upcoming title defense because he’s sick with the H1N1 swine flu. The fight is rescheduled for UFC 106 on Jan 2.
As swine flu supplies start to enter sections of the country, near panic sets in. An example isin the SF Bay Area, Kaiser just received their supplies today. Crowds and mobs flooded vaccination centers in an attempt to get the shot, and many were rude and rough with others.
This sort …
With over 60million shots being administered already projections indicate numbers will greatly exceed the normal 85million. This is currently the early part of vaccination season with peak times around the end of the year.
Barack Obama has declared swine flu a national emergency doing so on Friday evening.
With H1N1 swine flu becoming a national emergency this allows medical treatment facilities to handle more H1N1 patients by lessening certain standard federal requirements. This also coincides with the news that seasonal flu vaccinations have increased dramatically …
Swine flu may hospitalize 1.8 million patients in the U.S. this year, filling intensive care units to capacity and causing “severe disruptions” during a fall resurgence, scientific advisers to the White House warned.
Swine flu, also known as H1N1, may infect as much as half of the population and kill 30,000 …
Q: How safe is eating pork?
A: As safe as it ever was.
Handling and consuming animal products, such as pork, can transmit some viruses. But that’s not how the H1N1 swine flu virus is spreading, said Christine Layton, a public health policy analyst with the North Carolina-based nonprofit research institute RTI …
The number of American troops in Iraq diagnosed with swine flu has climbed to 67, making U.S. soldiers the largest group in the country to come down with the potentially deadly virus, Iraqi health officials said Wednesday.
The figures were released by the Iraqi health ministry as it detailed steps being …
n years past, the nation’s attempts to prevent flu-related deaths have focused on limiting transmission of the virus through widespread vaccination programs. This year, with school starting up well before a vaccine for the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus will be available, there will be little that can slow the spread …
When Angela Witkamp heard that a local research company would soon be testing a swine flu vaccine, she had no reservations about signing up her two young daughters for a clinical trial.
“Any vaccination you get, there are side effects,” Witkamp said. “But the benefits of getting the vaccination definitely outweigh …
