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 18, 2009 by Swiney .
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 …
Posted on May 16, 2009 by Swiney .
The Department of Correction said Saturday that inmates at Rikers Island were advised to tell friends and relatives not to visit this weekend after it was disclosed late Friday that a prisoner received a diagnosis of probable swine flu there earlier in the week.
A prison spokesman said the inmate, who …
Posted on May 16, 2009 by Swiney .
Turkey and India confirmed their first cases of H1N1 flu on Saturday, all involving air passengers arriving from the United States.
Thirty-eight countries have now confirmed cases of the new flu strain, a mix of swine, human and avian viruses, which last month prompted the World Heath Organization to raise its …
Posted on May 16, 2009 by Swiney .
* H1N1 flu cases rise to 8,451, death toll to 72
* Confirmed cases in Ecuador and Peru
(Corrects global death toll to 72, Mexico’s to 66)
ZURICH, May 16 (Reuters) – The number of confirmed cases of the new H1N1 flu has climbed to 8,451, including 72 deaths, the World Health …
Posted on May 16, 2009 by Swiney .
The number of public schools in New York City reporting children with flulike symptoms continued to rise Friday, as three more schools in Queens and Brooklyn were closed, bringing the total to six this week, and parents and city officials wrestled with how to handle the growing spread of the …
Posted on May 16, 2009 by Swiney .
Japan confirmed its first case of swine flu caught within the country on Saturday, showing a massive effort to block the flu at the island nation’s borders had failed.
The government ordered schools closed in parts of the port city of Kobe, where the Ministry of Health said a male high …
Posted on May 16, 2009 by Swiney .
Three weeks after the first cases of swine flu were reported in the United States and Mexico, and on the day the H1N1 virus was confirmed as the cause of a third death in Texas, health officials on Friday said it’s now mostly safe to travel across the border.
The Centers …
Posted on May 14, 2009 by Swiney .
Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Cases by HHS Joint Field Office Coordination Groups
May 14, 2009