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.
Posted on July 4, 2009 by Swiney .
A 19-year-old man has died after contracting swine flu in London, health authorities in the capital have said.
The man, from south London, had serious underlying health problems and was in Lewisham Hospital. Tests undertaken after his death showed he had the flu.
He is the fourth person with swine flu to …
Posted on July 4, 2009 by Swiney .
The World Health Organization says the number of officially confirmed swine flu cases worldwide has reached 89,921.
The global body says 12,720 new cases have been reported since Wednesday — about half of them in the United States.
WHO says Britain, Chile, Mexico, Philippines also reported large numbers of new cases.
Health experts …
Posted on July 4, 2009 by Swiney .
The UN’s top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide is now unstoppable.
World Health Organization head Margaret Chan added that the holding of the meeting in Cancun showed confidence in Mexico, which has been hard hit.
The …
Posted on July 2, 2009 by Swiney .
Health experts are warning parents against holding “swine flu parties” in the hope of infecting their children with the H1N1 virus.
Talk of swine flu parties has emerged on Internet forums. The idea is that exposing a child to the H1N1 virus while it remains relatively mild will give the child …
Posted on June 25, 2009 by Swiney .
The number of cases of the A(H1N1) virus, otherwise known as swine flu, is growing in the Middle East, with many new suspected and confirmed cases in the past few days, but so far no one has died of the disease.
According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) latest A(H1N1) update …
Posted on June 22, 2009 by Swiney .
Seven children and three adults at a summer camp in Minnesota for kids with muscular dystrophy contracted swine flu this month, contributing to the decision by the national Muscular Dystrophy Association to cancel dozens of its remaining summer camps across the country.
The national MDA also reported swine flu cases at …
Posted on June 18, 2009 by Swiney .
South Africa’s first swine flu case – a 12-year-old boy who flew in from the US – has been confirmed.
The boy was admitted to a private hospital on Monday morning and discharged after treatment, said health ministry spokesman Fidel Hadebe.
Laboratory tests came back positive on Thursday for the H1N1 virus.
While …
Posted on June 16, 2009 by Swiney .
Qatar announced on Tuesday two cases of the H1N1 flu virus in two foreign children who arrived from the United States and Austria, the first cases in the small Gulf Arab country.
The two boys showed flu symptoms on arrival, were given treatment and were recovering, Health Minister Abdullah al-Qahtani said …
Posted on June 16, 2009 by Swiney .
Argentine health officials said Monday that a 3-month-old baby had died of the swine flu, the first fatal victim of the virus in Argentina.
The number of cases of the flu, known as the H1N1 virus, has been climbing in Argentina and Chile in recent days as winter approaches in the …