1. Is the swine flu outbreak in the United States winding down?
Not yet. Health officials expect to see more cases.
However, there are two reasons to think the 2009 H1N1 outbreak will wind down in the coming weeks. First, cases of influenza tend to dwindle when the weather gets warmer. …
Posted on May 7, 2009 by Swiney .
Posted on May 6, 2009 by Swiney .
For health authorities worldwide, the question remained how far the virus would spread and how serious would it be. The WHO remained at pandemic alert level 5, meaning a pandemic is imminent.
“If it spreads around the world you will see hundreds of millions of people get infected,” the WHO’s Dr. …
Posted on May 6, 2009 by Swiney .
While investigators trudge through pig farms and remote villages in Mexico, searching for clues about the new swine flu, answers about the virus’ origin may finally appear on a computer, based on genetic codes.
At the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, researchers are using public databases to trace …
Posted on May 6, 2009 by Swiney .
A Texas woman who had swine flu has died, officials said Tuesday, marking the second death in the United States linked to the virus and the first of a U.S. resident.
The news came as officials in the United States and Mexico, where the outbreak of the H1N1 virus started, …
Posted on May 4, 2009 by Swiney .
A shutdown of public venues in Mexico City is likely to be lifted by Wednesday, despite caution by U.N. health officials that a second wave of the swine flu virus could “strike with a vengeance.”
By early Monday, the number of cases worldwide stood at 985, with 26 deaths.
Twenty-five deaths …
Posted on May 2, 2009 by Swiney .
Hundreds of guests and staff were under quarantine at a hotel in China on Saturday after a guest there contracted the H1N1 virus.
About 200 hotel guests and 100 staff members were ordered to stay in the Metro Park Hotel in Hong Kong for seven days to stop the spread …