New York City health officials announced the closure of three more school buildings for Tuesday, bringing the total number of schools closed due to swine flu to 16.
Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Frieden and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein today announced that the City Health Department has recommended closing the Q209 building …
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An Upper East Side private boy’s academy closed Monday, joining the 11 city schools already shuttered by swine flu, as the mayor mourned New York’s first flu fatality.
St. David’s, a private Catholic school on E 86th St, closed down after several students reported flu symptoms.
“They chose to close, we did …
Posted on May 18, 2009 by Swiney .
Japan rushed to contain a widening outbreak of swine flu on Monday as global health ministers met in Geneva to discuss vaccine preparations and other preventative measures against the new flu strain.
Japanese cases of the H1N1 strain of influenza reached 135 after the government confirmed 74 new infections, including in …
Posted on May 18, 2009 by Swiney .
Just a quick report on the first swine flu death in New York.
Posted on May 18, 2009 by Swiney .
If people have conditions such as diabetes, emphysema and asthma and have been exposed to someone with flu, see a doctor, New York health officials said.
“Flu spreads, and that is what the H1N1 virus is doing. While the symptoms of H1N1 (swine origin) flu seem to resemble those of seasonal …
Posted on May 18, 2009 by Swiney .
In this May 15, 2009 file photo, Anita Seeratan, 13, an 8th grader at the Susan B. Anthony middle school, holds up a copy of the 2005 yearbook open to the page with the photograph of assistant Principal Mitchell Wiener, in New York. A hospital official said Sunday May 17, …
Posted on May 18, 2009 by Swiney .
The H1N1 flu strain is spreading fast in Japan and the world may be seeing an influenza pandemic unfold, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said the flu outbreak needed to be tackled with the utmost seriousness because there were still many unknowns about which …
Posted on May 18, 2009 by Swiney .
Eleven New York City schools are closed today in an effort to prevent the spread of the swine flu virus after it claimed its first victim in the area, a 55-year-old assistant principal.
The school closings and the death of Mitchell Weiner, an assistant principal at Susan B. Anthony Intermediate …
Posted on May 17, 2009 by Swiney .
Fourteen new cases of swine flu have been confirmed in England, the Health Protection Agency has said.
The infections bring the total number of cases of H1N1 in the UK to 101.
The new cases affect six adults and eight children. Ten are in London, three are in Surrey and one is …
Posted on May 16, 2009 by Swiney .
Malaysia has identified its second case of the H1N1 flu in a patient at a hospital in the northern island state of Penang, the online version of The Star newspaper reported on Saturday.
The patient is a friend of Malaysia’s first confirmed case, a 21-year-old student now being treated at a …